Pardon

Well, that time has gone by so I'll abbreviate that article there.

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So the ADL is pushing the pardon for quite some time.

The Georgia Board of Pardons is like, no, this isn't happening.

We've already had everything.

You know, good luck.

Oh, here we go.

This is what they said.

Without attempting to address the question of guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to protect the person of Leo M. Frank, and thereby preserve his opportunity to continued legal appeal of his conviction, and in recognition of the state's failure to bring his killers to justice, and as an effort to heal old wounds, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, in compliance with its...

When you apply that to politicians, uh, it's less clear what a politician has to show.

Uh, but bear in mind, there is that conviction that underlies this, um, and, uh, one must demonstrate to the Pardons Board that one is, um, worthy of that.

So I'm gonna stop there-

Okay.

... uh, [laughs] whenever we refer to the Constitution.

Um, so, uh, the pardons process, uh, has plenty of rules, uh, plenty of, uh, provisions of law that govern it, uh, from the beginning to the end.

Uh, and it is a process, uh, that, uh, the monarch would, uh, undertake, uh, upon the advice of the Pardons Board.

There's a whole board set up for this.

But first of all, the all these groups bring enough political pressure where the.

Clemency Board, the board that has the power, they're appointed by the governor of the state of Louisiana, actually decides they'll hear her case.

And that's very, very all.

I mean, she's double convicted murder.

I think it's quite fitting that on the same day that Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon and leader died is the same day that Liz Oyer, a highly exemplary public servant working not for politics or partisan gain but working for the American people doing her level best as the Pardon Attorney until she was unceremoniously fired by then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

What was her crime? What was her sin? She refused to recommend the restoration of gun rights for Mel Gibson who had been accused and convicted of domestic violence.

But because Mel Gibson, the actor, is a friend of Donald Trump they wanted Liz Oyer to be complicit in their scheme to restore his gun rights.

Who can remember...

Who can forget, sorry, the courage that it took for Liz to come forward and give this testimony? Here's a clip.

Two days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as deputy attorney general, he fired me from my position as the department's Career Pardon Attorney.

I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job.

Mr. Blanche's office had asked me to recommend restoring the gun ownership rights of a convicted domestic abuser.

And the Republicans have been silent on this issue.

And so as part of the campaign promise, both of myself and the rest of the cabinet, because we would have been the clemency board, to move forward with this.

And I continued pushing that and Ron, the first Clemency hearing, it wasn't on the agenda, brought it up and pushed to the gardens.

So those types of things, even I ran on environmental issues.

The first few months, he opened a blue-green algae task force.