President Obama continues his reckless and ideologically-driven course of handing out commutations in record numbers. Just this year, he's handed out 688 of them, dozens to inmates with firearms as well as hard drug convictions. This is from the same President who says he's worried about "gun violence." Apparently, he's most worried about it when guns are in the hands of normal, law-abiding people, less so when they're in the hands of felons who've been packin' heat to their 2 a.m. drug deals.
The commutation story is covered by Brendan Kirby in a relatively new and very worthwhile online publication, Lifezette. The article is here; it quotes me a few times.
When it could no longer be hidden that murder and heroin overdose deaths have been spiking for (now) close to two years, the once-sanguine Congressional prospects for "sentencing reform," i.e., sentencing reduction, took a nosedive. The President saw this, and did what he so often does: He just walked past the reasons for Congress's wise caution and used unilateral executive power, knowing he would never again have to face the electorate.
If you think Bill Clinton's disgraceful midnight pardons were a doozie, you're right. But I strongly suspect you ain't seen nothin' yet.
"Bill Clinton's disgraceful midnight pardons"
- How about Hillary Clinton's unclassified server?
FBI reopens investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mails
"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence
of e-mails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation …
I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."
– JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR
~ itv.com/news/2016-10-28/fbi-reopens-investigation-into-hillary-clintons-e-mails/