Former Governor Wants to Launch a Law School Pardons Clinic
Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich is seeking a host for the nation’s only law school clinic and training program devoted to pardons.
Ehrlich, a senior counsel at King & Spalding, plans to contribute to and raise money for the clinic, ProPublica reports in a story published with the Washington Post. His aim is to foster “a sense of fairness and justice.” He is talking to several law schools about hosting the clinic, including Georgetown Law School and George Washington University.
Though no law school has a pardons clinic, the University of St. Thomas law school in Minneapolis has one for commutations. Ehrlich’s idea borrows from the University of St. Thomas model, the story says.
An earlier ProPublica investigation of presidential pardons found that whites are nearly four times more likely to receive a pardon than minorities. Ehrlich tells ProPublica that every pardon should be “race neutral. Every element should be neutral, but for the guilt or innocence and justice.”
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