Last Thursday, the White House announced that President Biden was “granting clemency to nearly 1,500 Americans – the most ever in a single day.” The beneficiaries of Biden’s act include people “who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic” and “39 individuals who were convicted of non-violent crimes.” Most of those people had committed drug-related offenses.
As the Christian Science Monitor notes, Biden’s action “comes on the heels of two other presidential pardon matters that have grabbed headlines of late: a Politico report last week that President Biden was considering preemptive pardons for those who might be targets of the incoming Trump administration and a pardon for his son Hunter, convicted earlier this year of federal gun and tax charges.”
