OREGON STANDOFF LATEST: CONGRESSMAN CALLS FOR HAMMONDS PARDON WITH WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERING

On June 8th it was posted on this blog that the office of White House Counsel Don McGahn had a request for the pardon of Dwight and Steven Hammond under review.

This was reported by Portland media outlet KATU.

Yesterday Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon, the Republican who represents the Hammonds in Congress, finally stood up on the House floor and called for their pardon.

The Associated Press quoted Walden as saying: "it's time for real justice, and President Trump can administer that."

Politicians don't stick their necks out and Congressman Walden's decision to speak now reinforces my sense that a pardon for the Hammonds may be imminent during the holiday period coming up when publicity will be muted.

Credit for the pardon will go to President Donald J. Trump but even more so to those who protested in early 2016 at the Oregon Standoff protest.

They stuck their necks out and put the Hammonds case on the map, the case of two ranchers forced back to federal prison a second time to serve five year mandatory sentences as terrorists for lighting a backfire to protect their land.

Thank You again to Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum (RIP), David Fry, Shawna Cox and dozens of others who will be primarily responsible when the pardon comes down as seems increasingly likely..

Links below......

SEATTLE TIMES AP STORY ON CONGRESSMAN WALDEN 6/27/2018

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON CONSIDERED FOR HAMMONDS POST 6/8/2018