With the president’s decision to drop out of the race, he has effectively begun a longer lame-duck period, which is historically when most presidential clemency grants have occurred.
With the president’s decision to drop out of the race, he has effectively begun a longer lame-duck period, which is historically when most presidential clemency grants have occurred.
The letter referred to mentions “more than 150 people currently serving federal sentences for non-violent cannabis-related offenses” – not the “estimated 3,000 individuals still incarcerated in our federal prison system for cannabis” that the article states.
Almost all non-violent cannabis-related offenses are state convictions, for which the president has no pardon power. This article seems to gloss over that fact. As others in this thread have stated, no such action is going to happen until after the election anyway.
Whle I don’t disagree with the main thrust of this opinion article, it’s a bit misleading and unrealistic in its timeline.
unrealistic in its timeline?
people have waited for decades for a president from any party to give any amount of shits