The Pardon President Obama MUST GIVE before he leaves office:

[Chasstev365]

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Don Seigelman!

The man has been in jail for purely political BS charges because of Karl Fucking Rove and his Alabama gang of sleazebags were in a position to "get" a democrat. It is an embarrassment that we even have to ask people to call the White House and demand that Don is released and pardon for his "non-crime."

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R

[Achilleaze]

2. Make it so - and pardon Leonard Peltier, too

k and r

[LearnedHand]

3. Yes!!!! (eom)

[sagetea]

10. philmayaye!

Indeed!!!!


Ho'
sage

[Runningdawg]

28. Aho

[pkdu]

4. Might want to Sign the petition ( and fix the spelling to Siegelman ) :O)

https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/pardon-don-siegelman

[MFM008]

5. Don't expect anything

Dramatic. That's sooooooooooo not Obama.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. OTOH I can see it as his very last act as President.

Signed right before the Inauguration. Full pardon.

[MFM008]

17. i hope so

a lot of pardons. Including drugs and other stupid stuff.
They would still be talking about it in 20 years and it would take attention off the maggot.
here's to hope.

[Quackers]

6. It won't happen though. For whatever reason,

Obama has chose to ignore this all these years. I don't see him changing his mind especially since Don will be getting out soon.

[Sunlei]

8. anyone know if his lawyers did the paperwork request? Obamas at 1038 & climbing pardons & clemency

more than all past presidents combined.

He wouldn't even need a full pardon, just clemency for time served to get him out of jail? Someone has to do the paperwork.

[Hulk]

9. Oly North??? Scooter??

Shit...if Oliver North and libby can be exonerated, then neither of these pardons should be out of bounds...

[former9thward]

14. North was never pardoned.

An appeals court threw out his convictions.

[Hulk]

23. Yes...I knew that.

But the end result is the same. When guilty sons of bitches can walk free and even garner respect of peoples, when they are bonified criminals, seems like giving the same opportunity to those of lesser offences is certainly in order.
Just saying...

[former9thward]

24. I have posted many times that I think the Siegelman case was unjustified.

And he should be freed.

[cstanleytech]

36. No, the results arent the same. One had a court vacate the conviction and the other was not

pardoned rather he was granted clemency.
Mind you I think Libby was only granted clemency because he took a bullet that would have sunk Bush and or Cheney and caused criminal charges to be filed against atleast one of them but the fact still remains that he was not pardoned.
As for Siegelman I dont think Obama will pardon him, clemency? Maybe, pardon? Nope, I just dont see it happening though I could be wrong of course about it.

[bpj62]

37. Libby sentence was commutted

Scooter Libby was never parndoned either. His,sentnce,was,comnuted by Bush. It was a bone of contention between the older Bush and Cheney. Bush 1 felt that Cheney and Libby had betrayed the intelligence community with the outing of Valerie Plame. Cheney didnt care and wanted Libby pardoned. Its one of the few times that Bush 2 did something right.

[PatSeg]

11. Yes, yes, yes!

I have signed every petition I've come across over the years. This is outrageous.

[kacekwl]

12. Totally agree but am beginning to think it for some reason

Obama won't do it.

[Coyotl]

13. Gov. Don Siegelman, victim of 2002 stolen election. No one stood up then, and look what happened.

Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman seeks pardon from President Obama
Kelsey Stein April 13, 2016

More than 100 former state attorneys general this week sent a letter to President Barack Obama seeking a pardon for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

Siegelman, now 70, was convicted by a federal court in 2006 on bribery, conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges after being accused of appointing former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to a health planning board in return for a $500,000 donation to the governor's campaign for a statewide lottery.

Former New York Attorney General Bob Abrams told the Associated Press that they believe his conviction was unjust and tarnished by politics.

"Although nine years have passed, Gov. Siegelman's unjust conviction continues to eat away at the integrity of the justice system," it reads. "Many legal scholars as well as the public at large believe that the prosecution of Gov. Siegelman was a perversion of justice."

The letter was delivered to the White House on Wednesday. ............

Anatomy of a Stolen Election

[panader0]

15. I'm not sure but I rthink he's coming up for release soon.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. He needs a pardon.

Among other obvious reasons, Don Siegelman will be denied the right to vote as a former ex-felon if he isn't pardoned.

[panader0]

19. Completely agree. A vindication and an apology.

His impending release may be a reason why a pardon may not be granted.

[no_hypocrisy]

20. Beg to differ. Patty Hearst was pardoned by Jimmy Carter the last day of his term.

I think Obama would restore Don's life, voting rights, and reputation with a pardon. It's not the release. It's the exoneration.

[cstanleytech]

38. A pardon doesnt provide exoneration though only a court overturning the case can really do that.

All a pardon will do is let him vote and run for office I assume but it wont provide him what he deserves which is a judge to say the case was BS and to vacate the conviction.

[PoliticAverse]

43. Indeed courts have found that accepting a pardon is a tacit admission of guilt...

and a person has a right to refuse to accept a pardon on that basis.

[MADem]

48. It restores rights, but accepting a pardon from POTUS requires acknowledgement of guilt. nt

[PoliticAverse]

25. People are often pardoned after completing their sentences. n/t

[cstanleytech]

39. More often than not yes as most presidents dont want to risk granting a pardon or clemency to

most people currently in prison not unless of course the person they are pardoning and or granting clemency to might have something on the President granting the pardon and or the clemency which then provides a President like Bush a hell of an incentive to grant one.

[Tarc]

16. He can go take a seat for now; Chelsea Manning should be the #1 pardon priority

[barbtries]

21. yes

that he is still behind bars is so unbelievable

[liberalla]

22. oh good! that's who i was thinking of!

i really hope so too. i don't understand why he hasn't done so already.

[guillaumeb]

26. And Hillary Clinton?

would this eliminate an endless series of House investigations?

And I am not implying that Clinton is guilty of anything, but in the interest of eliminating one GOP distraction......

[elleng]

27. Hasn't worked in all this time; there's some sort of political 'glitch' (kind word)

that's keeping it this way.

[Botany]

29. Don Seigelman is in jail because he called out the fact that repugs rig elections.

Don Seigelman is a political prisoner.

[librechik]

40. Which should give us all a clue about who is really in charge of this country

and it ain't Obama.

[radical noodle]

30. I really hope he pardons Keith Cooper

DNA evidence has proven him to be innocent of a crime he spent 10 years in jail for, but Pence won't pardon him.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/1008/Why-Mike-Pence-won-t-grant-pardon-to-exonerated-Indiana-man

[MADem]

31. That will never happen because Mr. Cooper was not convicted of a FEDERAL crime.

Obama cannot reach down and meddle in the affairs of states. His jurisdiction does not extend there.

He can only pardon FEDERAL criminals.

[bonniebgood]

33. If Obama cant reach down in State affairs then why was Alaska's

Ted Stevens was pardon, charges dropped so Quickly under the Obamas Justice Department?

[PoliticAverse]

44. Stevens was charged with a _federal_ crime, not a state crime. n/t

[MADem]

47. What was he charged with? nt

[radical noodle]

46. Damn... of course

[tomp]

32. how about Leonard Peltier?

there were two things I wanted from obama: prosecute bush/cheney, inc, and pardon Leonard Peltier (also a political prisoner).

the first never happened. if the second never happens, obama will have been a complete failure to me.

[bonniebgood]

34. I concur NT

[heaven05]

35. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do hope so and if he can't it will be a prime example of the lie that our republic is a democracy where our vote determines the POTUS. Our vote only counts to allow the real PTB to install who they need at the time, to "shake things up".

[BobTheSubgenius]

41. I just knew it was going to be about Seigelman!

It is LONG past time for him to be not only released, but pardoned!

[subterranean]

42. Should have been done long ago.

I believe he is due to be released in February anyway, so I can't understand why Obama wouldn't pardon him.

[PoliticAverse]

45. Obama's Justice Department actually argued for a longer jailtime when Seigelman was re-sentenced...

Here is the Justice Department's press release on the re-sentencing...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-alabama-governor-don-siegelman-re-sentenced-bribery-conspiracy-fraud-and-obstruction

[Crash2Parties]

49. Wonder if there's any chance he'll pardon Chelsea

She's going to die in there, that seems to be the goal of her jailers, and none of the war crimes she revealed have even been investigated.