President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson today, and if you don't know her name, you know this one: Kim Kardashian West — who personally went to the White House last week to plead Johnson's case to the president. Johnson has served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
CNN is also reporting that the White House has assembled paperwork to pardon dozens more people. And then there was the tweet from President Trump Monday morning claiming he has the "absolute right to pardon” himself. So how does he decide to whom he grants clemency? Is it all part of a plan to get back at enemies and protect himself from Special Counsel Robert Mueller? And would he really consider pardoning himself?
Jim Braude was joined by former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, now a partner at Ashcroft Law and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Small, now a partner at Holland and Knight. Small is also the only lawyer to have defended two governors on corruption charges.
