Hat tip to Chicago Native for the photo.WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush, who hasn’t pardoned many criminals in his time, will have a chance to spare legions before leaving office in January.
Requests for presidential pardons and commutations of prison sentences are piling up at the Justice Department, with more than 3,000 pending. And, if history serves as any guide, the height of pardon season arrives in the final December of any president’s term.
Bush has proven to be exceptionally sparing with his pardon power. In modern times, only his father offered less clemency for the convicted. President George H.W. Bush, with only one term in which to act, signed just 74 pardons and 3 commutations—a fraction of what many recent presidents have allowed.
Near the end of his second term, the younger Bush has signed just 157 pardons and six commutations. He has drawn widespread attention for only one: the commutation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison time after the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted of obstruction of justice.
But Bush will have plenty of opportunities before leaving office in January. Nearly 1,000 petitions for pardons and more than 2,000 bids for commutations of sentences are pending.
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And I wonder if Bush added his name to the list to pardon himself.
2 comments:
You can bet this photo is downloaded for future use. I know the Middle East people are laughing at this idiot. No wonder Russia cased the US aside. Now McCain is trying his best to act like he's in charge with the Russia/Georgia problem. Well if only he could get the Georgian President's name right people might believe it.
I hear this Clown is back state side again.....and not soon enough.
Our Mayor of Chicago, Daley is in China because we are going for the 2016 bid for the Olympics, riding subways, not acting stupid, not embarrassing us here in the US and Chicago, but here we have the top dog out behaving like a drunk frat boy for the whole world to see.......tell me he is not drinking cough, cough he must be after he sobered up and realized what Cheney had done to this country, and had to start hitting the bottle again. \
Yes, the whole world is watching Jackie, yes they are taking pictures of this clown.
This clown can't even behave like a Mayor, or even a citizen representing the US, he is an out of control Frat boy on the loose.
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