Another round of coverage of Prez Trump’s clemency grants (and some folks left behind)

It is now nearly two full week since former Prez Trump issued his large batch of clemencies in his final hours in office.  As I mentioned in this post last week, Trump’s entire clemency record is full of fascinating and frustrating stories with respect to individual cases and the body of clemency work.  I did a round-up of recent pieces assessing Trump’s clemency activities law week, but another week of press coverage reveals another set of interesting stories about both clemencies granted and not granted:

From CBS News, “Man serving life sentence for non-violent crime reunites with family after Trump pardon: ‘A piece of me is back’“

From CNN, “This former prisoner had an unlikely supporter: the judge who sentenced him“

From Forbes, “The Inside Story Of A Trump Pardon Gone Wrong“

From Newsday, “How the plan to grant clemency to Sheldon Silver was scuttled“

From Politico, “The Real Scandal Is the Pardon Trump Didn’t Give: Rufus Rochell checked all the right boxes for clemency: an exemplary record in prison, advocacy out of it, and a friendship with a famous Trump booster. So why didn’t he get it?”

From SF Weekly, “Meet the Cannabis Offenders Pardoned by Trump“

I hope it will not be too long before we have some clemency action by Prez Biden to talk about, but I am not really all that optimistic on that front.