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

BOP

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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.
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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.

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

apnews.com

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 apnews.com
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... 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"!
 
22AcaciaAve

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The power of the pardon needs to be removed from the executive branch across the nation. If you want a pardon, get a new trial and overturn the original verdict. The President should not have this power. The founding fathers argued this, they just couldn't agree to remove it.
 
vraiblonde

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I kind of understand why some get pardons and others don't - Bill Clinton was pretty upfront about getting paid for pardons. But then you look at some of them and it's like, who was their sponsor who bought that pardon and why? Why would you pardon career criminals and violent criminals? Mookie from da hood - why'd he get a pardon? Is it because he was some powerful person's drug dealer?

There are incarcerated people who should probably be cut loose. Like that woman Kim Kardashian got Trump to pardon - she'd been in there long enough and there was a good chance she wouldn't reoffend. And folks who've served their sentence and gone on to be an asset to their community, I can totally see taking that off their record. But some of them are like....why?

Anyway, here's the list of pardons, what they did, and why they're being cut loose:

www.whitehouse.gov

Clemency Recipient List | The White House

Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is granting clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is pardoning
www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov

I'm trying to find the 1500 commuted sentences and why they went to jail but so far all I'm finding is a list of names.

Note that in that pardon list there is a prominent name missing... :lmao:
 
Hessian

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