The Obama administration is seeking to significantly boost the number of staffers in the Department of Justice’s pardon office, leading some to speculate that the president is getting set for an end-of-administration effort to grant clemency to a range of criminals.
The Justice Department recently posted on its website a job listing seeking 16 lawyers for new spots in its Office of the Pardon Attorney, which codifies petitions for clemency and makes recommendations to the attorney general for clemency.
The new lawyers will assist “the President in the exercise of executive clemency,” according to the job description.
The department’s move to beef up staff in the pardon office has prompted speculation that President Obama will pursue a final term effort to grant clemency to a range of criminals, particularly drug offenders.
…and he shall loose the vilest, most dangerous elements of the FSA among us; not only as a sign of attrocities still to come upon the train of Judgement, but also as an act of vengeance upon a nation which was not as stupid and pliable as he required us to be.
WE HAVE BEEN WANRED