President Bush issues holiday week batch of pardons and one more commutation

The AP is now reporting here that the second batch of lame duck pardons from President Bush were announced today.  Here are the basics:

Before leaving for the holidays, President Bush commuted one prison sentence and granted 19 pardons, including one to a man who helped the Jewish resistance in the 1940s.

With this latest batch, Bush has granted a total of 191 pardons and nine commutations. That’s fewer than half as many as Presidents Clinton or Reagan issued during their two terms.

Since the early press reports do not mention any other of the recipients, I am guessing Scooter Libby is not to be found on this latest list notwithstanding this week’s call for a full pardon for Libby in this Wall Street Journal editorial.  Of course, the always terrific Pardon Power is the go-to place for continuing discussion and analysis of this batch of clemencies and of others still hoping and waiting for executive mercy this holiday season.

Some recent related posts:

• Prez Bush issues (first?) set of lame-duck pardons and commutations
• “Begging Bush’s Pardon”
• More proof politicians are very compassionate toward criminals … who are fellow politicians
• Who do you want President Bush to pardon?
• A profile of Prez pardons as we enter clemency season
• Will Prez Bush become merciful again as his term concludes?
• Federal clemency news and notes
• “What pardons will Bush issue?”
• A clemency recipient makes case for the good clemencies
• An effective call for President Bush to be a truly “compassionate conservative” with his clemency power 

UPDATE:  Ben Smith at Politico notes here that one of the pardoned is a housing scammer.  In addition he provides this link to the full list of the 20 clemency recipients today.

MORE:  The New York Times has this interesting new piece discussing some clemency issues, which is headlined “A New Spotlight on Libby, the Name Not on the Pardon List.”  The piece suggests that Scootber Libby is not having the kind of re-entry difficulties that can plague other convicted felons.