President Bush has been sparing in the exercise of his pardon power, but more of his clemency - 157 pardons and six commutations of sentences - has gone to convicts in his home state of Texas and his younger brother's home state of Florida than to those in any other states.
The facts are fairly well known: Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were arrested following a shooting incident along the Mexican border in February 2005.
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Now, it's difficult to see where pardoning criminals might enhance a president's reputation or party's chances in any one state. And the most famous of Bush's pardons, the commutation of prison time for Lewis "Scooter'' Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff convicted of obstruction of justice in the federal investigation of the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent whose husband had debunked one of the Bush administration's contentions for the invasion of Iraq, is a District of Columbia case. More info at wiki.
The president's acts of clemency are as follow:
17 - Texas
14 - Florida
10 - Georgia
8 - California, South Carolina
6 - Arkansas, Washington
5 - Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin
4 - Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania
3 - Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Mexico
2 - Alabama, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, RhodeIsland, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia
1 - Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Vermont.
Read more at official website.
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