Comment Re:No surprises there... (Score 1) 608
Which is especially funny given his recent moves to release 22 convicted drug offenders.
Note that those 22 drug offenders have served at least ten years in prison each, and as of the last changes in the law relative to drug offenses they have also served more than the MAXIMUM current law allows.
In other words, good that he pardoned them, but it's not like it was a really impressive thing for him to let them out after they'd served the maximum currently legal sentence (admittedly, when they were convicted, the maximum was considerably longer)....
What's pathetic about those pardons is the "requirement" that they have served at least ten years of their original sentence first. There are a LOT of people in prison who haven't served ten years yet, but whose new maximum sentences are LESS THAN ten years. They'll have to stay in till they've gotten ten years under their belts, and probably another President....