Posted on 12/17/2024 6:22:53 AM PST by george76
Last week, Joe Biden made history — and not in a good way — by granting clemency on an unprecedented scale, commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals and issuing 39 pardons in a single day. This marks the largest one-day act of clemency in modern history, surpassing the previous record set by Barack Obama, who issued 330 commutations during his final days in office.
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at least three Democrat politicians .. including a disgraced former judge infamous for orchestrating a scheme that sent thousands of children to jail in exchange for kickbacks
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Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, one of two judges convicted in 2011 for his role in the “Kids for Cash” scandal, had his sentence commuted by Biden. Conahan and another judge received millions from sending children to private detention facilities where they had a business interest.
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“Conahan’s actions destroyed families, including mine, and my son‘s death is a tragic reminder of the consequences of his abuse of power,” Fonzo said
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Even Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) criticized Biden’s decision, calling it “absolutely wrong” and accusing the president of causing “a lot of pain” in his state.
“Governors and presidents have unique power to grant pardons and clemency and commute sentences. It is an absolute power, and it is a power that should be used incredibly carefully,”
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including former Democratic New York State Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., sentenced to 14 years for bribery and fraud, and former Democratic Florida state senate candidate Anis Blemur, who scammed South Florida’s Haitian community out of $1.6 million.
Other recipients included former Democratic Ohio Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, convicted of accepting bribes over a decade, and former Dixon, Ill., Comptroller Rita Crundwell, who embezzled $53.7 million from her city. Obama previously denied Dimora clemency.
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Conahan escaped justice for the meantime but will still have to answer to God for the evil he perpatrated that irreversably harmed so many young men.
Constitutional amendment: The presidential power to pardon shall be suspended for the period of time between a presidential election and inauguration day.
Of course the record was held by Obongo. I have not looked but l’d bet Clinton held it before that. The clueless idiots who make up the rat base will tell you they are the party of law and decency.
Note “modern history”.
Pres. Andrew Johnson’s Christmas Pardon of 1868 almost certainly included hundreds of thousands of Confederates and their supporters.
How much is Biden charging for his pardons? He isn’t doing it for nothing.
One criminal pardons fellow criminals
One criminal pardons fellow criminals
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BINGO!
The Mob never had it so good.
Another money making prop for the biden family, its gonna cost you
how else is he going to finance his library?
Our laws giving executives like the President, Governors and others pardon, clemency and commutation authority/power need to be revisited and revised. Biden is the poster-child for the abuse of this power. The law needs to change. Some guardrails are in order.
I would say Andrew Johnson’s is not in the same category.
What would be the point? Do you think they care what we think?
Supposedly biden is too mentally addled to be taken to court for his many (and continuing) crimes yet he is wise enough to discern who deserves a pardon and clemency? Give me a break! This “Worst President Ever” is such a worthless criminal sociopath.
“What would be the point?”
There’s a reason these really bullish*t pardons are always announced after the election. If Biden was running, no way would he pardon his kid before November; even if he wasn’t running, it would look bad enough to affect at least some votes for that idiot Harris.
Agreed.
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