White House Petition
A petition on the White House's "We the People" website, asking President Barack Obama to investigate the Rubashkin case was submitted on October 22, 2011 with 52,226 online signatures. The White House's response to the petition was that it was unable to issue a comment due to the separation of powers.
Read more about this topic: Sholom Rubashkin
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