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With just a few hours remaining in office, President Joe Biden issued a slew of pardons Monday morning to preemptively protect people President-elect Donald Trump had threatened.. Biden pardoned ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday for people Republican successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including former Chairman of the ...
Preemptive pardons on such a sweeping scale have never previously been issued. When President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, the 37th president was facing a real threat of ...
Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal offenses; they do not apply to state or local offenses or to private civil lawsuits. [40] Pardons for state crimes are handled by governors or a state pardon board. [1] The president's power to grant pardons explicitly does not apply "in cases of impeachment." This means that the ...
Biden’s pardons for five family members were among a slew of preemptive pardons he issued as he left office Monday, including for Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark ...
The pardons were issued for James B. Biden (President Biden’s brother), Sara Jones Biden (President Biden’s sister-in-law), Valerie Biden Owens (President Biden’s sister), John T. Owens ...
And Biden was the first president to issue broad categorical pardons to people convicted of simple use or possession of marijuana on federal lands and U.S. service members convicted of a now ...
US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, including several convicted of multi ...