So when Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, took office, Frazier resolved to try a different path. An activist who had worked with the administration took Frazier’s case directly to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who had been taking pardon requests to her father in his final days in office. In the past, some advocates have argued that the pardon office should operate out of the White House. Still, those intimately involved with Trump’s pardon process seemed unwilling to let his tough-on-crime approach — he oversaw more federal executions than any president in more than 120 years — derail the work on clemencies. Her path to the Trump White House had given her what she saw as a unique opportunity to make a difference, and she became a key part of the informal clemency process.

Source: bd News24 January 23, 2021 14:48 UTC