What is a presidential pardon? How is it different than a commutation of sentence?
What is the difference between a commutation of sentence and a pardon? What is clemency? Here's what you need to know.
Biden Pardon Record: President Commutes 1,500 Sentences—Most Ever in a Day
Joe Biden has commuted around 1500 sentences, marking the largest single-day clemency action in modern U.S. history.
Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences in record use of pardon power
The commutations went to people who had spent at least a year serving their sentence at home under the CARES Act during the pandemic.
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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
Biden said he would be taking more steps in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions. The second largest single-day act of clemency was by Barack Obama, wit
Biden Plans Historic (and Potentially Stupid) Preemptive Pardons
President Joe Biden has spent the majority of his White House tenure practically ignoring pardon requests—but now he’s working to pardon certain individuals before they’ve even been charged with wrongdoing.
Biden commutes sentences of 1,500 people, pardons 39
The Associated Press reported that Biden commuted the sentences of about 1,500 people, most of whom were released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic and sentenced to home confinement. They served at least a year in home confinement after being released.
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After Hunter Biden's pardon, White House considers broader clemency
The White House is listening to demands for President Joe Biden to extend the same grace to thousands of people wronged by ...
Is a Preemptive Pardon Legal? Biden Considers Measure for White House Officials
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US President Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Nearly 1,500 Criminals: White House
Outgoing President Joe Biden said Thursday he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 criminals and pardoned 39 others ...
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Here are the times that Biden, the White House said they wouldn’t pardon Hunter
President Biden and the White House have emphatically insisted the president wouldn’t pardon his son, Hunter Biden. But ...
All the times Joe Biden and the White House said he wouldn’t pardon Hunter
Both President Biden and the White House have repeatedly told the public that the president would not pardon his budding ...
Biden's Hunter pardon came after circumstances changed, White House says
U.S. President Joe Biden changed his mind about pardoning his son Hunter because "circumstances have changed," the White ...
Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds
Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he'd ...