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President Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting sentences for roughly 1,500 people and is pardoning 39 others in what the White House called the “largest single-day act of clemency in ...
President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others, in what the White House said early Thursday was the biggest number of commutations and clemencies ...
Biden said many of the 1,500 people whose sentences he is commuting "would receive lower sentences if charged under today's laws, policies and practices," and that they have "successfully ...
Grace Helen Whitener (born 1964 or 1965), [1] known professionally as G. Helen Whitener, is a Trinidadian-American attorney serving as an associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court. Whitener was nominated by Governor Jay Inslee on April 13, 2020, to fill the seat of retiring justice Charles K. Wiggins .
The 117th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws. [1] [2] Donald Trump, who was the incumbent president for the Congress's first seventeen days, did not enact any laws before his presidential term expired.
The Enforcement Act of 1871 is an Act of the United States Congress which empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations. The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20
The House is expected to vote today on the critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for some transgender ...
Whiteness Project: Inside the White/Caucasian Box is a 2014 interactive documentary investigating how Americans who identify as “white” experience their ethnicity. . Created by documentary filmmaker Whitney Dow and produced in association with American Documentary | POV, the project plans to conduct 1,000 interviews with white people from all socioeconomic backgrounds and localities in ...