The stories and tweets about the hundreds of Bevin pardons are, by and large, really bad — focused on one pardon that raises favoritism questions and giving lots of space to prosecutors noting that some others are for people convicted of violent crimes.
What is this? It quotes two prosecutors as the “lawyers.” washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/… 
What are you doing Slate and TPM?
Here’s @JohnFPfaff on why this coverage and these tweets are so damaging:
Here's @RachelBarkow with more:
And here's some contextualization from @davidminpdx about that one pardon that folks, particularly on the left, are letting control their coverage:
In a system that dramatically overcriminalizes and overpunishes, those who recognize that reality must be more careful in discussing executive branch officials who are granted and exercise the clemency authority.
Incidentally, and although I had no idea it was coming, @MattBevin himself responded to all of this in a thread that began a few minutes after I began my thread. Go read —>
