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A Bipartisan “Arc of Justice”: Trump Commutes Rubashkin’s Unjust Sentence
by Alan M. Dershowitz
January 1, 2018

The president of the United States has the constitutional authority to pardon any defendant and commute any sentence. It is a power rarely used. Recently, US President Donald Trump commuted an outrageously unjust sentence imposed on a Chasidic Jew named Sholom Rubashkin, who had been convicted of a bank fraud that generally warrants a sentence of a few years and a fine. READ MORE