Statist criminal: Mississippi attorney general: Barbour's pardons violate state constitution

Mississippi's attorney general chastised former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour after a judge issued a temporary injunction forbidding the release of any more prisoners Barbour pardoned or gave clemency to before leaving office this week.

State Attorney General Jim Hood said Barbour violated the state's constitution because the pardon requests for many inmates were not published 30 days before they were granted, as required.

Mississippi is one of the few states that requires advance notice.

"This isn't a partisan issue," according to Hood, who is a Democrat. "Either you followed the constitution or you didn't."

"He's tried to rule the state like Boss Hogg and he didn't think the law applied to him," Hood told CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday, likening Barbour to a character in the 1980s TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard."

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/12/justice/mississippi-pardons/index.html
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Statist criminal: Mississippi attorney general: Barbour's pardons violate state constitution

Statist criminal: Mississippi attorney general: Barbour's pardons violate state constitution

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