After the way they've targeted Hunter for YEARS, good for him. Wish he could protect the rest of us from the monster, but that the right wing have relentlessly targeted Biden for unconditionally loving his only surviving son is just terrible.
the power to grant clemency is one of the most unrestricted and remarkable powers a president has, and it's truly devastating how presidents have become increasingly stingy in granting commutations and pardons
they just get really bad press for granting clemency to the wrong person. some examples, including one that makes me so mad every single time i think of it:
i don't know - or particularly care - why he pardoned these particular people. what i care about is that had he pardoned no one, it would NEVER have been a story. every politician knows that granting clemency puts a target on their back and so they do it less and less.
It was decades ago now, but the spectacle of Clinton leaving the campaign trail to get front row seats for an execution that would probably be banned under Atkins today was seen as a political positive…and I don’t think that’s changed all that much in a large swath of the country.
A president’s whole purpose for being is to take care of the corporatocracy. Commuting the sentences of the ppl those corporations have managed to gain control of? Not likely..
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(And now I'd get busy and do a whole lot more...let us pressure whomever we can to get that done.)