Commutations and pardons articles
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Commute PA giving away gift cards for recording bike trips
The York-based nonprofit is celebrating National Bike Month by offering riders a chance to win a $100 gift card.
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Iranian Oil Tycoon’s Death Sentence Commuted To 20 Years
Babak Zanjani, an Iranian oil sales intermediary who was previously sentenced to death for embezzling billions in oil revenue, will instead now serve a 20-year prison sentence.
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Kavanaugh draws the wrong lesson from Ford’s 1974 Nixon pardon
Donald Trump’s immunity claims reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week, and during oral arguments, Justice Brett Kavanaugh — a Trump nominee — thought it’d be a good idea to bring up Gerald Ford’s decision to pardon Richard Nixon in 1974. The then-president’s decision, the conservative jurist said, was “very controversial in the moment.” Former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben, a member of special counsel Jack Smith’s team agreed. It was “hugely unpopular” and “probably why” Ford lost...