Earlier this week, Mitt Romney supported President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence for obstruction of justice. This comes after he has bragged on the presidential campaign trail that he was the first governor in modern Massachusetts history to deny every request for a pardon or commutation during his four years in office. He says he refused pardons because he didn't want to overturn a jury.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised because Governor Romney has already showed that he will reverse any position, that he will say anything, to pander to the far right wing of his party which has such a dominant role in picking a GOP presidential nominee.
Romney thinks it OK to commute a sentence of a White House insider— a friend of the Vice President— but he felt it was important that as Governor to twice deny a pardon to Anthony Circosta, who at age 13 was convicted of assault for shooting another boy in the arm with a BB gun — a shot that didn't break the skin. Circosta worked his way through college, joined the Army National Guard and led a platoon of 20 soldiers in Iraq's deadly Sunni triangle. In 2005, as Circosta was serving in Iraq, he sought a pardon to fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer.
Maybe this potential Republican presidential nominee could use a little refresher course on the topic of "equal justice under the law."
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