Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

[BOP]

What's next? Pardoning people who've streamed across the borders?

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

The commutations announced Thursday are for people who have served out home confinement sentences for at least one year after they were released. Prisons were uniquely bad for spreading the virus and some inmates were released in part to stop the spread. At one point, 1 in 5 prisoners had COVID-19, according to a tally kept by The Associated Press.

Biden said he would be taking more steps in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions. The second largest single-day act of clemency was by Barack Obama, with 330, shortly before leaving office in 2017.

“America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Biden said in a statement.

Unless, presumably, one is a conservative.

At the rate he's going, he'll have pardoned people long dead, as well as people who haven't even been born yet.

Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

The president is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The move follows a pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

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[Ramp Guy]

At the rate he's going, he'll have pardoned people long dead, as well as people who haven't even been born yet.

Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

The president is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The move follows a pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

apnews.com

... I'm guessing he has no idea that he has just pardoned these people, he just "signed" what was put in front of him.

If the press asked him what are the names and crimes of some of these folks, his response would be "What folks"!