How can the justice department justify this? " Justice Dept. won't support Jack Johnson pardon"

[still_one]

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is refusing to back a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091211/ap_on_sp_ot/us_boxing_pardon

and one of their excuses why they can't is:

"In a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, the department's pardon attorney, Ronald L. Rodgers, told Rep. Peter King that the Justice Department's general policy is not to process posthumous pardon requests. In cases like Johnson's, given the time that has passed and the historical record that would need to be scoured, the department's resources for pardon requests are best used on behalf of people "who can truly benefit" from them, Rodgers wrote."

What a moronic excuse. It wouldn't take long, and it definitely would be symbolic

No surprise here why the Segelman(sic) case is not going to be acted upon either by this justice department

Where are the "VALUES" of this justice department

[bluestateguy]

1. Obama can just do it with the stroke of a pen

The whole pardon attorney's office is just a big bureaucracy created some decades ago to tie up a proper constitutional procedure that lies exclusively with the president, who is not constitutionally bound by their consent.

[LiberalFighter]

2. +10

[still_one]

3. There is no reason not then /nt