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Rep. Jamie Raskin has opened an investigation into how Donald Trump is issuing pardons with a letter to Trump’s DOJ Pardon Lawyer Ed Martin.
Raskin wrote to Martin:
I write to ask you to clarify the factors and course of you at the moment are utilizing as the USA Pardon Lawyer to suggest people for a presidential pardon.
As you might be undoubtedly conscious, the mission of the Workplace of the Pardon Lawyer is to “help second possibilities by means of clemency” by reviewing all purposes from convicted offenders and making suggestions to the President which can be constant, unbiased, and uphold the “pursuits of justice.”
Alas, it not less than seems that you’re utilizing the Workplace of the Pardon Lawyer to dole out pardons as favors to the President’s loyal political followers and most beneficiant donors, utterly ignoring and abandoning the 1000’s of particular person purposes for clemency.
These People 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. Lawyer for the District of Columbia, you described your self and the workplace’s profession prosecutors as “President Trumps’ [sic] attorneys.” You used your workplace to position the President’s allies convicted of political violence and different crimes above the legislation and to focus on his imagined enemies, thus endangering public security in our Nation’s Capital.
