President Obama granted clemency to 231 federal inmates today. The most in a single day by any president in U.S. history. Obama commuted the sentences of 153 people and pardoned 78 others, a sure indication of what’s to come in his final weeks in office. While many politicians have recently come against non-violent drug offense sentences, if Obama really believed in this, why did he wait so long? With today’s actions, Obama has doubled the number of people he has pardoned as president, according to the White House, bringing the total to 148. He commuted the sentences of 1,176 people,