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imo, this is about where the hopin votin cycle begins anew. i'm feeling uneasy about this drumpf mobilization that's going on. the empire is in the "great leaders" phase. anything's possible. watching for the "nobody saw that coming!" development.Seriously. And that link I posted was from f-ing MSN.
Democratic president Jimmy Carter pardoned, commuted, or rescinded the convictions of 566 people,[25] and in addition to that pardoned over 200,000 Vietnam War draft evaders.[30] Among them are:
Oscar Collazo – Attempted assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950; commuted to time served in 1979
G. Gordon Liddy – Watergate figure. Convicted for 20 years for conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping; commuted after serving 4+1⁄2 years in 1977.
Peter Yarrow – Singer-songwriter of Peter, Paul and Mary, had pleaded guilty to a morals charge involving a 14-year-old girl in 1970 and served three months in prison, was pardoned in 1980.[31]
Vietnam war draft resisters – Unconditional amnesty issued in the form of a pardon in 1977[30]
Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America, was arrested and accused of treason in 1865. Charges were brought in 1868 but was absolved of any guilt for participation in the Civil War by President Andrew Johnson's Fourth Amnesty Proclamation on Christmas Day of that year. Posthumously pardoned.
Patty Hearst – Convicted of bank robbery in 1976 after being kidnapped and allegedly brainwashed; sentence commuted in 1979
Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores Rodriguez – opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives and wounding five Congressmen in 1954; clemency
Frederic B. Ingram – Heir from Tennessee, convicted of bribing government officials in Illinois in 1977; jailed for 16 months.[32] His sentence was commuted by Carter in December 1980.[32]
HEARTBREAKING moment Sandy Fonzo confronted a judge who was part of the kids-for-cash scheme where 2 judges were receiving millions of dollars to send kids to for-profit prisons.
Her son ended up committing suicide.
Biden just commuted the sentence of one of the judges.
Can Biden look Sandy in the eyes and explain why he commuted the judge’s sentence?
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