"with a stroke of a pen"

[question everything]

Among the panel on this morning CBS Face the Nation was Ron Fourneir of the National Journal.

And this is what he said (among other things)

FOURNIER: You know, as a -- as a policy matter there are now tens of thousands of African-Americans who are in jail right now under sentences that have been rolled back by Congress because of the crack -- you know, the cocaine disparity. But they're still in jail because they weren't grandfathered. And with the stroke of the pen, a stroke of the pen, President Obama can free them. And for some reason hasn't. I mean there's just been a few, 30 or 40, but there's -- there's thousands of African-Americans who are in jail under this old crime bill that now the Democratic Party is abhorrent to but the Democratic, liberal president, for some reason, hasn't used his executive clemency powers. I can't figure it out.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-april-10-2016-sanders-priebus-fauci/

and scroll down, way down.

Maybe in January 2017 Obama will...

[SCantiGOP]

1. I hope so

and before the right wing heads explode explain to them how much Tax Money this saves.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. Don Siegelman became a political prisoner because he was a Democrat Governor in Alabama

https://free-don.us/

[question everything]

3. Indeed. Has anyone ever asked Obama, or anyone of the justice dept. about that?

Perhaps Obama will pardon him among the ones at the end of his term.