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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday ...
Before Thursday, Biden had issued 122 commutations and 21 other pardons, mainly for people with nonviolent drug offenses. (During his first term, Donald Trump granted clemency to 237 people ...
A post shared on social media purports President Joe Biden has pardoned over 8,000 people during his four years in office to cover up the administration’s crimes. Verdict: Misleading Much of the ...
On December 20, 2023, Biden pardoned Colombian businessman Alex Saab as part of a prisoner exchange with Venezuela. Saab was detained on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and laundering of monetary instruments (eight counts). [100] [101] On April 24, 2024, Biden pardoned 11 people who were dealing with drugs. [102] [103]
The CNN political commentator slammed now-former President Biden’s Inauguration Day pardons as antithetical to his rhetoric about respecting the "rule of law." "It was a disappointing move," she ...
President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for offenses he may or may have not committed from 2014-2024, according to Politico. The pardon also prevents Biden from going to jail for his ...
People pardoned by Joe Biden (21 P) People pardoned by James Buchanan (1 P) ... People pardoned by Barack Obama (5 P) P. People pardoned by James K. Polk (1 P) R.
Of the acts of clemency, 1,715 were commutations (including 504 life sentences) and 212 were pardons. [2] [3] Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges, [4] and had received lengthy and sometimes mandatory sentences at the height of the war on drugs. [5]