Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan accepted nearly $3 million in kickbacks for sending 2,300 children — some as young as 8 years old — to for-profit prisons on false charges. Why did Biden grant him clemency?
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Yes, in fact, home detention is something that many of those kids could have received but didn't get from those judges. That alone should be disqualifying.
It really seems like no one at the White House went through the people one by one to find out if they might be letting someone out who really needed to be in prison.
If the presidential pardon power is kept, each and every pardon should be accompanied by a description of the moral and legal justification for that pardon and signed by the president. It cannot and should not be a list of names. Those docs should be public for 30 days prior to the pardon.
This same transparency should be applied to cabinet positions. Post a job description and then the nominee’s ability to deliver on that role. Leading a dept with 800k employees? Your nominee should show similar background. An ambassdr to France? Show the job desc and the nominee’s qualifications.
I saw someone say he was just protecting his own people, and that made perfect sense. Sending kids to be tortured for money is pretty much in line with everything else he's done.
What if Biden step down 12/25, & Pres Kamala does pardons, clemencies, preemptive orders to help protect us from persecution by fascists? & stop arms shipments? Never liked her rigid answers re Gaza or border, but she’d make better use of this dwindling time? https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/17/k...
(step down 12/25/24) (so we’d have a brief moment of President Kamala Harris, in case these dwindling chances for something positive have half a chance)
He's Genocide Joe! And Three Strikes and You're Slave Labor for the prison-industrial complex for life Joe. Color me not surprised. In fact, I would have been surprised if Biden DIDN'T pardon this useful tool of his donors.
I love BlueSky. People like you proudly shout out your arrogant ignorance.
I've detested Biden since the 1980s, and I was a Democrat until 1993 and didn't completely give up on them until 2020, which was foolish of me to wait that long. Guess what the last straw was?
Open the prisons. We know the system is corrupt as fuck and half the people in there shouldn't be in there in the first place. It's a legal ethnic cleanse. Nothing more nothing less.
Neutrality always helps the oppressor, never the victim. Most centrist democrats are standing by and letting maga do whatever they want. They are accomplices
I wouldn't be surprised if a deep search into tracking money could find Biden was a part of the kids for cash scheme.
There's no other reason to help that judge out like that.
Authorities know this, they just won't say it out of fear of others digging into their own corruptions in the future.
I liked JB a whole lot until it turned 2023 and he hadn’t done shit about Garland. My opinion of him gets worse everyday, to the point I just want him to go away. We are in for a helluva ride until the old curmudgeon Dems of Pelosi et al die off. Need new blood badly
In president biden’s defense, she is very distracted with her husband joe having Alzheimer’s and all. Just like Nancy Reagan and Elenor Roosevelt before her, she is trying.
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but still, not a good choice whatsoever.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/17/k...
I've detested Biden since the 1980s, and I was a Democrat until 1993 and didn't completely give up on them until 2020, which was foolish of me to wait that long. Guess what the last straw was?
Now, do all of the pardons granted and to be granted by TFG.
There's no other reason to help that judge out like that.
Authorities know this, they just won't say it out of fear of others digging into their own corruptions in the future.
Why would anyone pardon this?
Beggars belief.
Savage world.