Kim Wehle
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3 Dec
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I mean, that's really a problem.
But of course, there are a lot of really reprehensible, vile, disgusting people that were pardoned, not just by Donald Trump, but by others.
And meanwhile, 13%, 13.6% of the population are people of color.
It's a disproportionate number of people in the prison system.
And when it comes to exonerations, where judges find that people are innocent, more than 50% of them go to people of color.
So I would say if presidents, if we're going to have a pardon power, Don, it should be used for good.
It should be used to address these injustices.
Why not use federal money to test everybody who's on death row to use DNA evidence and get people out of the death chambers if they're innocent?
That could happen.
And the Supreme Court is held in habeas cases.
Habeas is a way to get out of prison, a separate way.
Another way to challenge your conviction has literally said the pardon power is a reason not to make habeas more robust, even if you've got proof of your innocence.
So I would say the pardon power is actually draining our justice system and it's not being used.
Last point, George W. Bush said on his way out of office.
that that the pardon power is not working, that there's 11th hour bids and a frenzy by donors, by rich people, by people of lobby, people with access.
And he said presidents should come in on their first day of office and announce a policy for pardons that's fair and stick to it.
And again, I'm probably I'm probably editorializing on that.
But I think that's something that maybe Kamala Harris could pay attention to as a former prosecutor.
No, it's just a petit bout, as the French would say.
Thank you so much.
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