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On the recordMarch 26, 2019
In 2014, President Obama used the pardon power to commute the sentences of more than 1,700 Federal drug offenders.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Johnson contrasts Trump's use of pardons with Obama's commutation of many drug offenders' sentences.

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