Has anyone written on the bureaucratization of the pardon power? How did something that started as a king-like executive power vested in the executive become taken over by pardon offices and lawyers who vet for “suitability?”
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Replying to @jacremes
yes I reviewed a book about thishttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/carolyn-strange-discretionary-justice-pardon-and-parole-in-new-york-from-the-revolution-to-the-depression-new-york-new-york-university-press-2016-pp-336-5500-cloth-isbn-9781479899920/97703C59AE8CA1363987EB007ED6EB5C …
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Replying to @jacremes @saramayeux
There's also a good long-ish section on the pardon power in Marie Gottschalk's Caught, not directly addressing your question but more a reminder that routinized clemency used to be common and normal throughout the U.S.
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Replying to @ChaseMadar @saramayeux
Since I’m having so much difficulty figuring out a second book project, I’m thinking about trying my hand at a series of article length projects, and I thought maybe this could be one. Maybe not though.
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Sounds like a great project to me, long or short! I wrote a clemency thinkpiece for @amconmag a few years ago, may be of interest:http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-case-for-clemency/ …
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