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Ten days before he leaves office, Biden took several questions from reporters after giving remarks touting his jobs record as president including an employment rate that fell from 4.2% to 4.1% in ...
Sources told theGrio the Biden administration is working around the clock on a two-pronged pardon issuance before President Joe Biden leaves office at noon Eastern on Jan. 20, 2025, when Donald ...
Ronald Reagan gave his final pardon to New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner two days before he left office in 1989. Steinbrenner had been convicted of making illegal contributions to ...
Before Thursday, Biden had issued 122 commutations and 21 other pardons, mainly for people with nonviolent drug offenses. (During his first term, Donald Trump granted clemency to 237 people ...
The president can issue a reprieve, commuting a criminal sentence, lessening its severity, its duration, or both while leaving a record of the conviction in place. Additionally, the president can make a pardon conditional, or vacate a conviction while leaving parts of the sentence in place, like the payment of fines or restitution.
President Biden issued blanket pardons for his brother James and his wife, Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John […] Just minutes before he leaves office, Biden pardons his siblings and ...
The closest historical precedent for Biden's preemptive acts of clemency is the pardon that President Gerald Ford granted to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, a month after taking office. That ...
President Joe Biden is expected to make further use of his clemency power before leaving office next week, potentially extending pre-emptive pardons to individuals who could be targeted for ...