I confess to not properly following the Plame thing over the past couple of years. I got the outing of Valerie, but there were a lot of dotted lines going from that to the WMD and I just got lost along the way. I’ve got an attention span of a 13 year old boy juiced up on Pop Rocks. But this pardon (er… commutation) business has gotten my attention.
Presidents sure have used this perk of the job very often in the past fifty years. All pardons would seem to be bypassing the rule of law. Anything that brings up a Clinton scandal is quite fun, because his scandals always involve leggy blonds with hair extensions.
This article also caught my eye a few days ago. Does Bush’s argument that the Libby’s sentence was too rough set some sort of precedent?
On the aside, as I was reading this article, I thought, "huh, I wonder what Doug Berman of Sentencing Law and Policy Blog has to say about this. I’ll have to check him out today." But no need to do that, because the author quoted him in the next paragraph. The power of blogs.
Apt. 11d 