Obama Pardons

Arthur Delaney

'Obama's First Bold Act Of Executive Clemency'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama announced Monday that he had pardoned five Americans for past crimes, bringing his pardon total to just 22, a small numb...

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Obama Issues Multiple Pardons For Marijuana-Related Sentences

AP | Posted 11.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Monday pardoned five people convicted of charges ranging from intent to distribute marijuana to running an ill...

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Arthur Delaney

The Elusiveness Of Presidential Pardons

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.03.2011

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A 1975 felony conviction and three-year prison stint ended Randy Eugene Dyer's career as a bad guy who imported drugs from Mexico and started his care...

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Obama Pardons 8 People

AP | By PETE YOST | Posted 07.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday pardoned eight people convicted of crimes ranging from conspiring to import marijuana to selling alliga...

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Dan Froomkin

Obama Issues 9 Penny-Ante Pardons, First Of His Presidency

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama, who had gone nearly 700 days without using his clemency power, finally issued nine pardons on Friday afternoon to a ver...

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Denied By Bush, George Ryan To Seek Clemency From Obama

Chicago Public Radio | Sam Hudzik | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Illinois Governor George Ryan will ask President Barack Obama to commute his 6-and-a-half-year sentence for political corrupption. That's accor...

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