{"id":19384,"date":"2025-06-01T05:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19384"},"modified":"2025-06-01T05:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:13:45","slug":"jamie-raskin-launches-investigation-into-trumps-corrupt-pardon-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19384","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Raskin Launches Investigation Into Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Corrupt Pardon Spree&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong>By no means a single phrase of each PoliticusUSA story by changing into a subscriber.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin has opened an investigation into how Donald Trump is issuing pardons with a letter to Trump\u2019s DOJ Pardon Legal professional Ed Martin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg\" width=\"768\" height=\"445\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:445,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:39377,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/i\/164897100?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null}\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb30fd-9d60-4bcc-a4d5-b46f9905db0e_768x445.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Raskin wrote to Martin:<\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> As you might be undoubtedly conscious, the mission of the Workplace of the Pardon Legal professional is to \u201chelp second possibilities by clemency\u201d by reviewing all functions from convicted offenders and making suggestions to the President which can be constant, unbiased, and uphold the \u201cpursuits of justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Alas, it no less than seems that you&#8217;re utilizing the Workplace of the Pardon Legal professional to dole out pardons as favors to the President\u2019s loyal political followers and most beneficiant donors, fully ignoring and abandoning the 1000&#8217;s of particular person functions for clemency. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u2019s profession prosecutors as \u201cPresident Trumps\u2019 [sic] attorneys.\u201d You used your workplace to position the President\u2019s 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\u2019s Capital. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/p\/jamie-raskin-launches-investigation\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By no means a single phrase of each PoliticusUSA story by changing into a subscriber. Rep. Jamie Raskin has opened an investigation into how Donald Trump is issuing pardons with a letter to Trump\u2019s DOJ Pardon Legal professional Ed Martin. Raskin wrote to Martin: I write to ask you to clarify the standards and course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6432,3416,3312,454,9417,3313,7232,2013],"class_list":["post-19384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-corrupt","tag-investigation","tag-jamie","tag-launches","tag-pardon","tag-raskin","tag-spree","tag-trumps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}