Biden Should Use His Pardon Power for More Than Just Turkeys

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-pardon-power-more-than-turkeys/

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  1. >Sixty-seven House members, led by Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, and Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania, signed a November 20 letter to President Biden, which argued for a bolder embrace of the executive clemency power as a tool for achieving justice and saving taxpayer dollars that are now used to incarcerate Americans who were not convicted of violent crimes and do not pose a threat to society:

    >>As you continue to deliver for the American people during the final months of your presidency, we urge you to use your executive clemency power to reunite families, address longstanding injustices in our legal system, and set our nation on the path toward ending mass incarceration.

    >>Mass incarceration remains a persistent, systemic injustice that erodes the soul of America. Our nation has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with nearly two million people locked in jails and prisons throughout the country. The extreme use of incarceration has resulted in one in two adults having an incarcerated family member.

    >The letter makes a moral and practical case against mass incarceration, arguing,

    >>While the most marginalized Americans feel the worst impacts, the entire country pays the cost of mass incarceration. In strictly fiscal terms, researchers estimate the total annual cost to taxpayers is $182 billion, which is more than double the Department of Education’s entire budget Our country is spending exorbitant amounts of money to keep people in prison for prolonged periods of time, including those who do not pose a significant public safety threat. In our growing federal prison population, 90 percent of people are convicted of non-violent offenses. The reliance on incarceration in our legal system has created a crisis that must be addressed.

    he won’t. see, the problem with this is that Joe Biden has a huge responsibility in causing the mass incarceration of today, he wrote the 94 crime bill, [he pushed Reagan to the right on the war on drugs](https://theintercept.com/2019/09/17/the-untold-story-joe-biden-pushed-ronald-reagan-to-ramp-up-incarceration-not-the-other-way-around/) and he wrote the bill that would eventually become the Patriot Act (something he bragged endlessly about in the 2020 primary). surely Jim Clyburn realized this when he endorsed mr. mass incarceration during the 2020 primary…

  2. He should resign just to fuck with the MAGA folks who bought the 47 merch…

  4. President Biden should offer a blanket pardon to the person that Rats on Trump and Musk’s election tampering.

  6. Pardon everyone which the republicans don’t like, this is the way.

  8. Forgive all student loans. If they want to kill the department of education, why should Americans have to pay for trump bibles to replace real books.

  10. I imagine he could blanket pardon all the undocumented people in the country for entering without proper papers, or overstaying visas.

    Everyone except for Elon Musk and Melania Trump

  11. He should pardon everyone in federal prison for low level marijuana use or selling.

  12. He will not. Fuck spineless democrats, Biden and Garland into oblivion.

  14. Wield power? You want a Democrat to wield power? Ha, we’ve been begging for it for decades now.

  15. That sounds more than reasonable.

    And, with an eye to what’s coming, he should issue blanket amnesty for people here without papers. And he should pardon his son Hunter, too. I know he said he wouldn’t, but if he doesn’t, Trump will put Hunter and his whole family through hell and that’s no good for anybody.

  16. Since SCOTUS says every presidential act is legal, he should create retroactive “get out of jail free” cards and give them to all the people that Trump is going to hunt down and imprison because he doesn’t like them and they told the truth. Starting with Vindman and his brother.

  17. Biden should also use his presidential immunity for a few things

  19. He should pardon all federal employees just to fuck with the upcoming witch hunts

  20. Blanket pardon for all peoples that could become a victim of political retribution now and in the future for all crimes….

  21. His whole presidency was about maintaining status quo. His promises to voters were empty and there is no reason to believe he is any more willing to do the right thing than any other career politician.

  22. Too bad the president doesn’t have the power to execute his political opponents.

    Oh, that’s right, the Extreme Court has ruled that he does have that power.

  23. Democrats should have held Trump accountable for his crimes.

  24. Biden should pardon every undocumented person in the country right now and give them full citizenship.

  26. SCOTUS: uh, that power only belongs to republicans

  28. Pardon Jack Smith and other DOJ lawyers, pardon himself, pardon his entire administration, pardon blue state governors, judges, etc. Heck, pardon all “illegal immigrants” so they can’t be deported. Use some f** imagination.

  31. And pardon all immigrants! This is the war Trump wants to bring on all the people committing “illegal crossings of the border.”

  32. Federal legalization would be ideal , let us working poor folk enjoy a smoke after work

  33. Time to get outrageous. I hate that the Dems are always pussy footing around.

  34. He won’t do a god damn thing that piece of shit except try and make the republicans more comfortable before they royally fuck us.

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