Biden Is Developing a Pardon Process With a Focus on Racial Justice, Likely Will Not Wait Until End of Term to Grant Pardons

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Biden Is Developing a Pardon Process With a Focus on Racial Justice - The New York Times

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As a senator, he backed legislation that led to mass incarceration and long drug sentences. Now his administration is signaling that he could use clemency to address inequities.

 

 

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The effort, which is being overseen by the White House Counsel’s Office and the Justice Department, is an implicit rebuke of President Donald J. Trump’s approach to clemency, which mostly bypassed the Justice Department and relied on an ad hoc network of friends and allies, resulting in a wave of late pardons and commutations to people with wealth or connections.

 

Mr. Biden’s team, by contrast, has signaled in discussions with outside groups that it is establishing a more deliberate, systemic process geared toward identifying entire classes of people who deserve mercy. The approach could allow the president to make good on his campaign promise to weave issues of racial equity and justice throughout his government.

 

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On the campaign trail, Mr. Biden apologized for portions of one of the more aggressive tough-on-crime measures he championed, the 1994 crime bill. And as president, he has surrounded himself with supporters of overhauling the system.

 

The White House has publicly offered few details about his plans for issuing pardons, which wipe out convictions, and commutations, which reduce prison sentences. But White House officials have indicated in private conversations with criminal justice activists, clemency seekers and their allies that Mr. Biden’s team is working with the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney to process clemency requests with an eye toward having the president sign some before the 2022 midterm elections.

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Good, but I still don't like the power of pardon as constituted

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

thread with some constructive criticism

 

 

[cusideabelincoln]

He should definitely do it now because he probably won't even live through his entire term.

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4 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

thread with some constructive criticism

 

 

The involvement of DOJ is the first thing that made me go “hmmmmmmmmmm”

 

Giving any deference to the outfit responsible for putting these people in prison, or keeping them there too long, is a no for me dawg