December 19, 2015

The implication of Obama's latest clemency fest

(Paul Mirengoff) Whenever Senator Mike Lee, or some other Leniency for Drug Dealers stalwart, defends his sentencing reform legislation, he points to the case of one or two drug felons who received a sentence that seems unduly harsh. Such cases aren't impossible to find. But invoking them raises an obvious question and then a more subtle one. The obvious question is: if this sentence is egregious, why hasn't President Obama commuted it?

Source: Power Line