President Biden has only granted 1.4% of clemency petitions submitted. There are four months left for cannabis justice before his term ends.

With the president’s decision to drop out of the race, he has effectively begun a longer lame-duck period, which is historically when most presidential clemency grants have occurred.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    102·
    4 days ago

    The difference here is pardoning [clutches pearls] criminals. Which will be spun to dangerous, convicted, surely “seriously bad guys” that plead down to a lesser charge.