More of this stuff coming, eh?
Biden has done 65 pardons so far…
(Of course inluding his son, Hunter)
And this move breaks the record on commutations handed out on singel day…
Obama has the overall record …..
Trump left doing 94…..
We’ll be waiting to see how Biden and Trump do in the next month or so….
President Biden said on Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes in a sweeping act of clemency during his final weeks in office.
The commutations — the largest number by a president in a single day, the White House said — affect those who had been released from prison and placed in home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic. The pardons went to people convicted of nonviolent crimes, including drug offenses.
“America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. He said the clemency represented his commitment to “help reunite families, strengthen communities and reintegrate individuals back into society.”
A pardon wipes out a conviction, while a commutation leaves the guilty verdict intact but reduces some or all of the punishment.
Mr. Biden’s action was one of the biggest grants of clemency in modern American history. President Jimmy Carter, on his first full day in office in 1977, issued a pardon that affected more people, for men who evaded the Vietnam War draft. But that was what is known as a categorical pardon; Mr. Biden’s commutations are for individual cases….
Note….
Will Trump pardon ALL of the Jan. 6 convicted protestors?
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