scandal, president george w. bush decided he would not handle pardon requests directly through the white house. they d all be delegated to an office at the justice department. that office would make recommendations and president bush would have the choice whether or not to follow those recommendations. the white house looks at a pardon recommendation from that little justice department office, the president is not told the race of the person who wants the pardon. of course, the office of the pardon attorney says that race plays no role whatsoever in whether they recommend someone should or shouldn t get a pardon. it s the outcome of the squirrely process that you are four times as likely to be pardoned simply by virtue of you being a white person. quote, every drug offender forgiven during the bush administration at the pardon attorney s recommendation, 34 of them, every single one, was a white person. and although race is the most striking factor here, the propublica found other weird
scandal, president george w. bush decided he would not handle pardon requests directly through the white house. they d all be delegated to an office at the justice department. called the office of the pardon attorney. that office would make recommendations and president bush would have the choice whether or not to follow those recommendations. the white house looks at a pardon recommendation from that little justice department office, the president is not told the race of the person who wants the pardon. of course, the office of the pardon attorney says that race plays no role whatsoever in whether they recommend someone should or shouldn t get a pardon. it s the outcome of the squirrely process that you are four times as likely to be pardoned simply by virtue of you being a white person. quote, every drug offender forgiven during the bush administration at the pardon attorney s recommendation, 34 of them, every single one, was a white person. and although race is the most striking fac
somebody is denied a pardon. that is one reason propublica s investigation into the pardon process is ground breaking. through a freedom of information act request, propublica analyzed a random sample of 500 or so cases. with rigorous statistical analysis, controlling for all other factors, check out what they found. look at this. quote, white criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities. white people are 400% more likely to get a presidential pardon than african-americans and other minorities. even when you control for the type of crime, the sentence, et cetera. after the clinton mark rich scandal, president george w. bush decided he would not handle pardon requests directly through
inauguration, president trump signed an executive order directing the department of homeland security to prioritize the removal of aliens come to know my convicted of an illegal offense. an article in the los angeles times as more and more governors are receiving pardon requests. seemingly a possible but not guaranteed way around for administration stricter immigration law. the times said that there was a round up of more than 100 iraqi nationals in michigan and a month later 40 of those individuals filed requests for pardons from republican governor rick snyder. ed: ellison barber, thanks for the spring and fox news contributor, former republican congressman from utah, jason chaffetz. i took some digging, it took less than ten seconds to find a news story from this october about how governor brown was patting himself on the back for signing, yes, three new gun-control bills into law. and governor brown is all about gun control unless he wants to try to stick it to the president
inauguration, president trump signed an executive order directing the department of homeland security to prioritize the removal of aliens come to know my convicted of an illegal offense. an article in the los angeles times as more and more governors are receiving pardon requests. seemingly a possible but not guaranteed way around for administration stricter immigration law. the times said that there was a round up of more than 100 iraqi nationals in michigan and a month later 40 of those individuals filed requests for pardons from republican governor rick snyder. ed: ellison barber, thanks for the spring and fox news contributor, former republican congressman from utah, jason chaffetz. i took some digging, it took less than ten seconds to find a news story from this october about how governor brown was patting himself on the back for signing, yes, three new gun-control bills into law. and governor brown is all about gun control unless he wants to try to stick it to the president