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Rep. Jamie Raskin has opened an investigation into how Donald Trump is issuing pardons with a letter to Trump’s DOJ Pardon Legal professional Ed Martin.
Raskin wrote to Martin:
I write to ask you to clarify the standards and course of you are actually utilizing as the USA Pardon Legal professional to suggest people for a presidential pardon.
As you might be undoubtedly conscious, the mission of the Workplace of the Pardon Legal professional is to “help second possibilities by clemency” by reviewing all functions from convicted offenders and making suggestions to the President which can be constant, unbiased, and uphold the “pursuits of justice.”
Alas, it no less than seems that you’re utilizing the Workplace of the Pardon Legal professional to dole out pardons as favors to the President’s loyal political followers and most beneficiant donors, fully ignoring and abandoning the 1000’s of particular person functions for clemency.
These Individuals rely in your workplace for a good shot at a second likelihood in a course of that has some actual integrity. The indicators are troubling. Throughout your quick tenure as Interim U.S. Legal professional for the District of Columbia, you described your self and the workplace’s profession prosecutors as “President Trumps’ [sic] attorneys.” You used your workplace to position the President’s allies convicted of political violence and different crimes above the regulation and to focus on his imagined enemies, thus endangering public security in our Nation’s Capital.
