Biden grants clemency to 2,500 drug offendes – Washington Examiner
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Biden commutes 2,500 criminal sentences in final clemency push
President Joe Biden, in one of his final acts in the White House, announced a new wave of clemency decisions Friday, commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders.
The announcement comes just weeks after the president issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, followed swiftly by another round of clemency, including commuted sentences for 37 of the 40 inmates facing the death penalty. Friday’s move gives Biden more pardons and commuted sentences than any other U.S. president.
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In a statement, Joe Biden claimed that the nonviolent offenders affected by Friday’s decision were “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.”
“With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,” the president wrote. “I am proud of my record on clemency and will continue to review additional commutations and pardons.”
Joe Biden had previously hinted that he was considering issuing preemptive pardons for former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who helped lead the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee, and other perceived political enemies of President-elect Donald Trump. A number of Trump supporters, and even Trump himself, have suggested that he would seek criminal prosecution for Cheney and others who sought to hold Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
However, the president told reporters that he was not considering a preemptive pardon for himself. The GOP-led House had been investigating his and Hunter Biden’s business dealings and alleged influence peddling but closed out the last Congress without holding an impeachment vote.
“Myself? Why should I pardon myself? No, I have no contemplation of pardoning myself. I didn’t do anything wrong,” Joe Biden said last Friday.
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