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    1. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes May 31

      Also important here is the *way* he's doing these pardons (Arpaio, Libby, D'souza), which as far as I can tell, aren't going through the pardon attorney process.

      221 replies 1,142 retweets 3,797 likes
    2. josie duffy rice‏ @jduffyrice May 31
      Replying to @chrislhayes

      I think this part isn't so bad! If only Obama would have cut out some of the bureaucracy, we'd have a lot more people pardoned and sentences commuted. Obviously, he's using it for bad ends...but I'm not sure the process in itself is wrong.

      18 replies 11 retweets 58 likes
    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner May 31
      Replying to @jduffyrice @chrislhayes

      Hmm.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. josie duffy rice‏ @jduffyrice May 31
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @chrislhayes

      I think about it like this - the pardon attorney works for DOJ, DOJ is basically the world's biggest prosecutor's office. Their involvement generally stops more deserving people from pardons/commutations. So if it were a different president, I'd be thrilled about it.

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner May 31
      Replying to @jduffyrice @chrislhayes

      I mean, I get the criticism of the Pardon Attorney — both the office, its location, and the process. I just think your first tweet somewhat conflates "fixing a flawed process" and "encouraging no process."

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    6. josie duffy rice‏ @jduffyrice May 31
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @chrislhayes

      yes i would agree that intention matters very much here. just saying as a process, its not inherently bad.

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner May 31
      Replying to @jduffyrice @chrislhayes

      And that's my point. What process? The "let me open my twitter feed or turn on my tv and pardon the next name mentioned" process?

      8:16 AM - 31 May 2018
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        2. Ames Grawert‏ @AmesCG May 31
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @jduffyrice @chrislhayes

          So we actually wrote up a proposal on this a while back. Our theory was the burdensome, one-by-one pardon review process we currently have could be substituted with one that could systematic review cases, and flag for individual review as needed:https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/federal-agenda-reduce-mass-incarceration …

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        3. Ames Grawert‏ @AmesCG May 31
          Replying to @AmesCG @chrisgeidner and

          This would have allowed President Obama to (e.g.) make the Fair Sentencing Act retroactive through blanket use of his commutation power. The USSC (who we talked to for this) has the data & search capability to make finding eligible people about as easy as a Westlaw query.

          1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
        4. Ames Grawert‏ @AmesCG May 31
          Replying to @AmesCG @chrisgeidner and

          Would be neither the slow, case-by-case process that Obama used, nor the "hey I saw that guy on TV" approach Trump uses, & would let DOJ quickly come up with people that fit criteria for clemency. We tried to get this done with a fair amount of backdoor lobbying, but no luck.

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        5. josie duffy rice‏ @jduffyrice May 31
          Replying to @AmesCG @chrisgeidner @chrislhayes

          interesting!!!

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Ames Grawert‏ @AmesCG May 31
          Replying to @jduffyrice @chrisgeidner @chrislhayes

          Thank you Josie! And thanks for reading @deray, we’re big fans of your work over here :). If either of you or anyone else wants to talk more on this, lmk!

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        2. josie duffy rice‏ @jduffyrice May 31
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @chrislhayes

          hahaha fair

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Mike Sacks‏Verified account @MikeSacksEsq May 31
          Replying to @jduffyrice @chrisgeidner @chrislhayes

          Well, @shonhopwood’s 60 Minutes appearance and twitter feed wouldn’t be a bad place to start

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Mike Sacks‏Verified account @MikeSacksEsq May 31
          Replying to @MikeSacksEsq @jduffyrice and

          Mike Sacks Retweeted Shon Hopwood

          https://twitter.com/shonhopwood/status/1002240321667903489?s=21 …

          Mike Sacks added,

          Shon Hopwood @shonhopwood
          Will be filing a clemency petition to @realDonaldTrump on behalf of Matthew Charles and asking the President to commute the sentence to time served. Matthew has already proved worthy of a #SecondChance and the President should give him one. http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/he-heads-back-prison-nashville-man-says-goodbye-new-life-he-hoped-build#stream/0 …
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