53 million in tax payer money meant for social services…
But Biden feels it’s just not a big fucking deal.
He commuted all covid home release, non violent prisoners, I’m guessing none of them were as bad as this woman, but blanket sentance commutation sounds like a really bad policy.
I’m guessing none of them were as bad as this woman
Why?
What kind of criminals do you think were serving long prison terms but were approved for home detention instead?
Like, you’d have to be able to support yourself, so it’s already people relatively well off without ill-gotten gains. And they’re not risking jail to shoplift a Snickers.
If they risk jail its for very large amounts of money, especially because they can afford lawyers to get out of most stuff
The lists been out two days, I doubt this is the worst person who got it.
The kids-for-cash judge is, imo, worse, and he also got pardoned.
I think the really nasty pardons here, by nature of how they were selected, just ended up being a further continuation of the two justice systems we have for the rich and the poor.
yeah. this one upsets me way more than the one with his sone. this is some bullshit.
I haven’t heard a credible argument against the pardon for his son. Even the lack of conditions was necessary since the new administration will definitely target him if possible. The only shitty part was Biden’s need to telegraph his absolute faith in “X” system, which inevitably backfired, again.
He could’ve pardoned any later trials for crimes dated before the pardon but allow the active trials to continue and let the courts decide the appropriate punishment. Instead he basically just exonerated him and now seems to be handing out pardons to make it seem like he’s objectively reviewing these cases instead of abusing his authority.
I don’t see a reason why he would allow active trials when they’ve already been targeting him. Pardoning later trials seems like an ambiguous distinction that would only harm him while he’s trying to protect him from political targeting. He’s not acting out of unsubstantiated fear of the future. It’s a reaction to active events.
Your last sentence is just a baseless assumption.
Not a huge fan of Biden’s presidency, but it sounds like his commutations were based on whether society deemed them eligible for home release during covid. I’m assuming he didn’t individually look at all 1,500 other commutations. Unless I’m reading it wrong, society deemed her low risk and she has been out of prison since 2021.
Definitely sloppy tho.
society deemed her low risk
No.
A judge did
And Biden is about to hand over 42 judicial seats to trump because he couldn’t even be bothered to nominate 30 of them
They had the numbers a couple times because Republicans kept missing sessions. A month ago Schumer held a vote on one and everyone celebrated instead of asking why he didn’t do the other dozen that had nominations.
Moderates by definition will never fight as hard as they can. They don’t want to win, they want a delicate balance which includes stopping their own party and helping the opposition.
There’s like 1.2 million people in USA prisons. Why this group in particular?? Just do what every dem president does and release all the potheads without actually fixing the war on drugs problem
They literally set up parameters and pardoned everyone within those parameters. I’m sorry 2 errors got through, but 2 slips in 1500 is not bad
Did 2 errors get through, or did 1498 people get released as plausible cover to slip in two favors? We’ll never know for sure, but judging Biden by the patterns of his other actions, he’s flatly unworthy of the benefit of the doubt.
You got em! They did it just as a huge cover up for a person he has never met in his life /s
What is Biden doing?!
It’s like the Dems think “well might as well do a bunch of shit no one will like, we already lost”
As if people won’t remember in 4 years when they try and convince everyone to vote for them again.
Which, admittedly, either people probably won’t remember or Republicans will have another candidate where it won’t really matter how bad the Democrats candidate is because the Republicans will be so much worse.
(If there will be an election at all that is …)
He only won because he was not Donald Trump, not because he was a good candidate. I’d still take him over Trump, but this is not surprising behavior.
