With just a few months left in office, it’s Sentence commuting time!
Of course, if you’re Obama, it’s ALWAYS sentence commuting time.
A country founded on the rule of law– nah! Just let the drug dealers back out:
President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century.
Almost all the prisoners were serving time for nonviolent drug crimes, reflecting Obama’s long-stated view that the U.S. needs to remedy the consequences of decades of sentencing requirements that put tens of thousands of Americans behind bars for far too long.
Obama has pushed for a broader fix to criminal justice laws and has used the aggressive pace of his commutations in an effort to pressure Congress and call more attention to the issue.
Read more: Daily Mail
Obama is the President of Commuting sentences as shown by this chart here:
Should Obama keep releasing prisoners?
