One of the few remaining policy questions facing President Obama in his last week in office is who he might pardon on the way out the door.

Obama has released a record number of people from prison through commutations. He recently commuted hundreds of sentences, and Obama’s critics on the right are bracing for a round of controversial eleventh hour pardons and commutations before he leaves on Jan. 20.

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