News @lemmy.world FundMECFS @lemmy.blahaj.zone 6mo ago Biden sets presidential record on pardons and clemency www.axios.com Just a moment...
He should have been doing it the whole time. He was just looking for exit kudos. Which is better than nothing I guess.
Every president does this... Pardons are politically risky, so they wait until the end of their term and batch them.
He's been doing it his entire presidency for thousands of cases. He's done it for more than any president.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States
Wait didn't Carter pardon everyone who left the US to escape the Vietnam draft? Hundreds of thousands of people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483
Maybe he should have done this shit before November.
He should have been doing it the whole time. He was just looking for exit kudos. Which is better than nothing I guess.
Every president does this... Pardons are politically risky, so they wait until the end of their term and batch them.
He's been doing it his entire presidency for thousands of cases. He's done it for more than any president.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States