Obama's 1,000

From Yahoo:
"With new grant, Obama reaches clemency milestone"

President Obama announced he would free 79 more drug offenders from federal prison Tuesday, pushing the total number of commutations under his tenure to over 1,000. With this new grant, Obama has handed out more commutations than the past 11 presidents combined, part of his 2014 decision to use his previously dormant clemency power in a new and aggressive way. That year, the Justice Department asked prisoners who had been sentenced for nonviolent drug crimes to apply for clemency, funneling them through a group of pro-bono lawyers to help them with their petitions. The president saw his commutation power as a way to correct for overly harsh drug sentences that sent people away to prison for decades and sometimes life for nonviolent crimes. “He is committed to using his clemency power in ways not seen from any other president in the modern era,” White House Counsel Neil Eggleston told reporters.

^ Obama has always done whatever he wanted and now that he is in his Lame Duck period I'm sure he will do even more harm than good before he leaves office. At least once he's gone in January we never have to hear from him ever again. ^

https://www.yahoo.com/news/with-new-grant-obama-reaches-clemency-milestone-192531236.html