President Joe Biden's mass clemency has faced backlash as it included a judge in the infamous "kids-for-cash" scandal. And a new report Friday evening said the White House did so without considering the specifics of the case.The outgoing president on Thursday said he commuted the sentences of nearly...

President Joe Biden’s mass clemency has faced backlash as it included a judge in the infamous “kids-for-cash” scandal. And a new report Friday evening said the White House did so without considering the specifics of the case.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    So he either did it on purpose and tried to hide it in among the massive number of other pardons…

    Or he didn’t know and they are admitting that at minimum his staff are completely incompetent in making these recommendations.

    I don’t honestly expect him to spend time to read through all 1500+ pardon files independently, but his staff most definitely should be filtering them for this kind of shit.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        There are a lot of things we’ve found over the last decade or so that simply don’t have official processes, rules, or laws to enforce and instead have just been things that were done a certain way by tradition or historical gentleman’s agreements.