{"id":284,"date":"2015-12-28T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T14:47:32","slug":"one-argument-for-satanic-ritual-abuse-pardons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"One argument for ‘satanic ritual abuse’ pardons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeffrey Toobin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dec. 28, 2015<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne problem with pardons is that Presidents have considered them in secret, springing the decisions on the public only after they have been made. In high-profile cases, like Gerald Ford\u2019s pardon of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton\u2019s pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich, the political repercussions have been disastrous.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Obama could avoid this problem with some innovation \u2013 and sunshine. Over the last year of his Presidency, his Administration should publish the names of people being considered for pardons. In this way, members of the public can make their views known about the wisdom (or lack thereof) of letting each individual out of prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Presidents and governors (who also have pardon power) are haunted by the possibility that they might release someone who goes on to commit horrible crimes. (Former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas pardoned several people who did just that.)\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201cIt\u2019s Time for Obama to Go Big on Pardons<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker (Dec. 22)<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, the risk attached to granting pardons is real. But is it even possible for someone convicted of an imaginary crime \u2013 such as the Edenton Seven and Junior Chandler \u2013 to be a recidivist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dec. 28, 2015 \u201cOne problem with pardons is that Presidents have considered them in secret, springing the decisions on the public only after they have been made. In high-profile cases, like Gerald Ford\u2019s pardon of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton\u2019s pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich, the political repercussions have been disastrous. \u201cBut Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}