Thursday, December 12, 2024

Biden: Largest Single-Day Act of Clemency in Modern History

President Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 people, in the largest single-day act of clemency for any president in modern U.S. history. The commutations, announced in a statement Thursday, are for people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the commutations, Biden is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Prisons became fertile breeding grounds for infection during the pandemic and some inmates were released in efforts to stop the virus from spreading. The commutations are for those people who were released and are deemed to have successfully reintegrated into their communities. "America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances," Biden said in the statement.

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The mass commutation comes after Biden issued a surprise pardon for his son Hunter Biden earlier this month, wiping away criminal convictions on tax and gun charges. The president said he would continue to review clemency petitions in the coming weeks.

A person familiar with the conversations said there was also an active discussion about additional pardons, including for people on federal death row.

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Sadly Biden and radical Democrat advisors are pardoning people that most apolitical Americans view as a not just a mistake, but very harmful to America.

Hopefully Trump will pardon EVERY charged Jan 6, protestor as it has been just released that FBI spies encouraged insiders to stir up Jan 6 outrage and oddly Chris Wray resigns.

#1 | Posted by Robson at 2024-12-12 07:27 PM

Not bigger than Carter pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers.

#2 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-13 07:14 PM

Biden released the kids for dollars Judge, absolutely insane.

WTF.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-13 07:29 PM

Putin's butt ---- pardoned a cop killer.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-13 07:47 PM

Biden has granted clemency to Wendy Hetchman, she was convicted of manufacturing and distributing the most powerful form of fentanyl in the United States.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-14 04:26 PM


Not bigger than Carter pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers.
#2 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Wasn't Carters pardons a "blanket" pardon. These are specific pardons, realize the numbers aren't the same, but Biden isn't done.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-14 04:28 PM

but Biden isn't done.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut

Yup.

He hasn't gotten to those likely to become political prisoners of the Orange Tyranny.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-14 04:33 PM

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