Obama may grant clemency to "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of nonviolent drug offenders

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Looks like the preznit and his pal Holder are aiming their clemency at crack offenders as well.

Interesting that none of the three major networks reported these plans. They were busy flogging Easter bunny stories instead. Worthless, lapdog media...

Really? The networks ignored the story? Or is it another case of the fool at Newsbusters and his audience just being ignorant? My money is on the latter.

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/justice-dept-broadening-criteria-clemency-23408051

NBC News: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/doj-expand-clemency-rules-drug-offenders-n85891

CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-obama-to-grant-clemency-for-hundreds-of-nonviolent-drug-offenders/

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/21/politics/justice-department-cocaine-sentencing/

[UncleBeer 244]

Really? The networks ignored the story?

The site I quoted specifically referred to their "evening newscasts". But by all means: go off on an irrelevant tangent, since that's what you do.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The site I quoted specifically referred to their "evening newscasts". But by all means: go off on an irrelevant tangent, since that's what you do.

I don't watch those so I don't know what they did and did not cover. They have the stories online so it's not like they tried to suppress it in any way.

[UncleBeer 244]

I don't watch those so I don't know what they did and did not cover.

The majority of Americans (68%) still get their news from TV though, so what the nets decide to air and not air during those 22 minutes is crucial to opinion-forming. Ironically enough, the evening broadcasts still have not mentioned this story.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The majority of Americans (68%) still get their news from TV though,

That explains why so many Americans are so poorly informed.

[UncleBeer 244]

A home run by blogger Andy McCarthy on this. Worth reading the whole thing though:

…n making a mockery of his core constitutional duty to execute the laws faithfully, the broad law-enforcement discretion the Constitution vests in the executive branch has been President Obama’s preferred sleight of hand…Thus is “prosecutorial discretion” the subterfuge for usurping congressional law-making power — the maze of unilateral waivers, amendments, and whole-cloth weaving that marks Obama’s enforcement of the “Affordable” Care Act, the immigration laws, and other federal statutes.

Alas, the next item on the transformational-change agenda is undoing prior administrations’ faithful execution of the narcotics laws. The forward-looking prosecutorial-discretion doctrine is unavailing to address the past. That is where the pardon power comes in…

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, will use the executive’s pardon power to rewrite the narcotics statutes. This is a gross abuse. The pardon power exists to mitigate injustice in individual cases. The president, to the contrary, proposes to use it to target laws he disagrees with — laws whose constitutionality is beyond dispute but to which he objects on policy grounds. Which is to say: laws that it is his solemn constitutional duty to execute faithfully, not undermine.

As usual, the administration’s story is rife with fraud. Holder carefully talks about “non-violent” drug “offenders.” Obama riffs about “kids or individual users” supposedly “lock[ed] up . . . for long stretches of jail time.” You are left to imagine poor addicts who never hurt anyone but themselves, languishing for decades in some super-max prison. Yet federal drug enforcement targets felony drug dealers, not simple possession of drugs — the latter is left to the states. Mere users of marijuana and crack are not wasting away in federal penitentiaries. Moreover, an offender sentenced under a mandatory-minimum provision has necessarily committed a significant narcotics felony; the felony distribution of minor amounts of narcotics is not subject to a mandatory minimum, and judges maintain discretion to sentence those offenders to little or no jail time. Obama and Holder are talking about freeing what could amount to thousands of serious criminals…

A lawless president does more than violate his oath and demonstrate his unfitness. He forfeits trust. You say you want immigration reformed? You say you want drug policy rethought? Opinions on these matters vary widely, but one thing is for certain: It makes no sense to legislate on a subject that hinges on effective law enforcement unless you can trust that the law you pass will be the law. That means you have to be able to trust the president. With this president, it means waiting for the next president.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

A home run by blogger Andy McCarthy on this. Worth reading the whole thing though:

Might I suggest you find and watch a movie called "How to get rich selling drugs. " Very illuminating. The 'drug war' is pretty much central in virtually every problem you and supporters of the 'drug war' claim to be so very concerned about. It is also a self perpetuating folly, initially aimed at and still dramatically affecting minorities, hopelessly doomed to continue failing.

[UncleBeer 244]

Might I suggest you find and watch a movie called "How to get rich selling drugs. "

I'd prefer you explain & support your viewpoint in a couple of paragraphs here, instead of suggesting I sit through a movie. Surely you can do this ... ?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This will go down as one of the greatest acts of humanity by a sitting president.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

This will go down as one of the greatest acts of humanity by a sitting president.

Killing America softly.

[lostinblue 1,989]

This will go down as one of the greatest acts of humanity by a sitting president.

So that is what common core is teaching you these days?..Letting a few thugs out of prison

Y.ou need to study history a bit more. Rebuilding Europe and later Japan after WW2 per the Marshall plan and the Japanese-American claims act ... cannot compare with letting a few thousand thugs out in dealing with The greatest "humanity" ever

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

in the year 1948, President Truman signed the Japanese-American Claims Act

When liberals rewrite history.....(the kenyans greatest hits)

[ready4ONE 5,400]

So that is what common core is teaching you these days?..Letting a few thugs out of prison

Y.ou need to study history a bit more. Rebuilding Europe and later Japan after WW2 per the Marshall plan and the Japanese-American claims act ... cannot compare with letting a few thousand thugs out in dealing with The greatest "humanity" ever

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

in the year 1948, President Truman signed the Japanese-American Claims Act

When liberals rewrite history.....(the kenyans greatest hits)

WW2 was made possible by the terms forced on Germany after WW1. The Marshall Plan was as self serving to the US as it was a great humanitarian act to assist Europe and specifically the Axis powers. Much like ending the Drug War would be as well.

Too bad Right Wing aficionados don't really know the history of, well, much of anything. They are far too busy with their version of history.