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White, married, congressionally backed prisoners more likely to receive presidential pardons
By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a request for proposals for its first-ever in-depth study of presidential pardons, providing fresh details on what it envisions the review will entail. The agency said it would undertake the study in response to articles published by ProPublica and…
White criminals four times more likely to receive presidential pardon
ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer appeared Monday night on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss her findings regarding racial bias in presidential pardons. According to her report, white criminals were four times more likely to receive a pardon than minorities over the last decade. “Forgiveness is really what a pardon is…
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