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For decades, the Justice Department has refused to even look at pardon applications for people no longer living, saying its scarce resources are better spent investigating cases from people “who can truly benefit from a grant of clemency.”
That would seem to be bad news for champions of Jack Johnson, the former heavyweight boxing champion convicted of kidnapping in 1913 in a racially charged prosecution. He died in 1946.
President Trump could pardon him anyway.
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