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Columnist Bill Newman: Pardons mitigate injustices but sometimes cause them

I’ve been musing about a phone call I received about a decade ago. One morning in 2016 our law office receptionist let me know that an attorney from the U.S. Pardon Office (part of DOJ) was calling — I assumed for some minor additional information. I was on a deadline and about to say, please take a message.   The call itself was not a complete surprise. Ashfield attorney Buz Eisenberg and I were filing commutation petitions with the U.S. Pardon […]

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