Bill Analysis - GOP.gov http://www.gop.gov/ Bill Analysis from Republicans in Congress en-US Thursday, February 09, 2012 Thursday, February 09, 2012 S.Con.Res 29: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that John Arthur "Jack" Johnson should receive a posthumous pardon for the racially motivated conviction in 1913 that diminished the athletic, cultural, and historic significance of Jack Johnson committee on the judiciary http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/sconres29 Senator McCain (Arizona) | Committee on Judiciary

S. Con. Res. 29 resolves that it is the sense of Congress that Jack Johnson should receive a posthumous pardon-
 To expunge a racially motivated abuse of the prosecutorial authority of the federal Government from the annals of criminal justice in the United States; and
 In recognition of the athletic and cultural contributions of Jack Johnson to society.

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