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| Biden's horrific commutations are a grotesque abuse of the US justice system |
| 2024-12-26 |
| [NYP] President Biden, or whoever is running the White House, has grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again. Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 of the prisoners on federal death row in response to the lobbying of opponents of the death penalty, keeping intact his nearly unbroken record of bending to left-wing pressure groups while in office. Biden, or whoever is running the White House, put out a statement averring that the president has long been committed to "ensuring a fair and effective justice system." Even if true, this is a non-sequitur, since there’s nothing to suggest the handling of these cases was unfair. Biden decided a few years ago that he opposed the death penalty after long being an unsparing supporter (when he said in the 1990s that his crime bill did "everything but hang people for jaywalking," he meant it as a compliment). That’s fine. Anyone with such a long (and undistinguished) career is going to shift on issues over time. |
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