President has pardoned ranchers who had been forced to serve a mandatory sentence in connection with an accidental fire. The Daily Caller reports:
President Donald Trump pardoned two Oregon ranchers forced back into prison in 2016 to serve out the rest of the mandatory minimum sentence required under an anti-terrorism law.
“The Hammonds are multi-generation cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land,” the White House said in a statement. “The evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.
Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted of committing arson on federal land in 2012 under an anti-terrorism law from 1996. The U.S. District Court judge who sentenced the ranchers believed the mandatory minimum sentence was too harsh, thus both men served short stints in prison.
The Hammonds served their time, but federal prosecutors appealed the case and a federal court overturned the 2012 judgement. The Hammonds were forced back into prison in 2016 to serve the rest of their sentences.
The liberal media will no doubt spin this as an abuse of power by the President.
It wasn’t abuse of Power when Obama pardoned a Puerto Rican terrorist who later took a picture with Senator Luis Gutierrez (D). Clinton pardoned Mark Rich via his wife after a huge campaign contribution. All these Activist Judges, at what ever level, should be recalled. Congress should work on this project?
That is the best recommendation ever. These overly aggressive “lawyers ? and judges?” need to be held accountable. They should all be prosecuted themselces..
another GREAT JOB MR PRESIDENT.
now lock up ALL THOSE WHO DID THIS INJUSTICE TO THOSE RANCHERS.