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\nPresident Donald Trump said on Friday he may pardon the late heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, and for futures acts of clemency, he may seek recommendations from pro football players and other athletes who have protested racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.<\/p>\n
Trump said that \u201cinstead of talk\u201d, he is going to ask protesting players to suggest \u201cpeople that they think were unfairly treated by the justice system\u201d.<\/p>\n
The president said football players have \u201cseen a lot of abuse\u201d and \u201ca lot of unfairness\u201d and that he wants their input on his use of this executive power.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a meeting with in Canada with US allies that his team was \u201clooking at literally thousands of names\u201d of people for potential pardons because they were treated unfairly or their sentences are too long. Ali is one name on this list.<\/p>\n
Ali was born Cassius Clay, and changed his name after converting to Islam in the 1960s. He refused to serve in the Vietnam War because of his religious beliefs, declaring himself a conscientious objector, and saying, \u201cI ain\u2019t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.\u201d Ali was stripped of his heavyweight crown in 1967.<\/p>\n
Ali\u2019s legal fight ended in 1971, when the Supreme Court ruled in his favour, reversing his conviction on a technicality. He regained the boxing title in 1974. Ali died in 2016.<\/p>\n
Trump already has granted a posthumous pardon to boxing\u2019s first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, more than 100 years after many saw as his racially charged conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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