{"id":10146,"date":"2018-12-17T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:14:49","slug":"clemency-the-criminal-justice-reform-trump-can-achieve-without-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/clemency-the-criminal-justice-reform-trump-can-achieve-without-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemency: The criminal justice reform Trump can achieve without Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/span>resident Trump unveiled one of his top legislative priorities before Democrats take over the House of Representatives: passage of the First Step Act, which would reduce some prison sentences. Though he still must win a tug-of-war within the Republican Party to get that bill through, he has a Plan B \u2014 and he doesn’t need Congress for it.<\/p>\n

That would be the creation of a White House clemency commission to supplement or replace the Justice Department\u2019s opaque Office of the Pardon Attorney, which critics say is inherently biased in favor of prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\"\"A new clemency commission can be created without Congress. The idea has support from both left-wing and conservative advocates, who note Trump\u2019s repeated musing about the unfairness of the criminal justice system, including a remark<\/a> in October that \u201ca lot of people\u201d are in prison for \u201cno reason\u201d and that he was \u201cactively looking\u201d to address that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow is the perfect opportunity for President Trump to show Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who’s the boss,” CAN-DO Foundation founder Amy Povah said recently. “He can commute the sentences of hundreds, if not thousands of prisoners who would qualify for an immediate release if First Step passes with one stroke of the pen.”<\/p>\n

Read the entire story at Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n

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President Trump unveiled one of his top legislative priorities before Democrats take over the House of Representatives: passage of the First Step Act, which would reduce some prison sentences. Though he still must win a tug-of-war within the Republican Party to get that bill through, he has a Plan B \u2014 and he doesn’t need…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-can-do-media","category-can-do-news","tag-can-do-clemency"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Unknown.jpeg",225,225,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":40,"name":"CAN-DO in the Media","slug":"can-do-media","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":199,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":40,"category_count":199,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO in the Media","category_nicename":"can-do-media","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"CAN-DO News","slug":"can-do-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":224,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":224,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO News","category_nicename":"can-do-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":32,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-clemency","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":32,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":33,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":40,"label":"CAN-DO in the Media"},{"value":4,"label":"CAN-DO News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":32,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14623,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions\/14623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}