{"id":2379229,"date":"2024-12-12T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-commutes-nearly-1500-sentences-in-record-use-of-pardon-power-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:12:31","slug":"biden-commutes-nearly-1500-sentences-in-record-use-of-pardon-power-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-commutes-nearly-1500-sentences-in-record-use-of-pardon-power-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences in record use of pardon power &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-commutes-nearly-1500-sentences-in-record-use-of-pardon-power-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2379229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text provided consists of HTML and XML elements,primarily forming a structure for a webpage.It includes a \u2064button labeled &#8220;Read\u2064 more&#8230;&#8221; which, when clicked, likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-truth-social-skyrockets-on-first-trading-day-in-major-boost-to-former-president\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s Truth Social experiences significant growth on its debut trading day, providing a substantial lift to the former president\">reveals additional content<\/a>. 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My Administration will continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice under the law, promote public safety, support rehabilitation and reentry, and provide meaningful second chances,&rdquo; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The president&rsquo;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-cruz-predicts-timeline-for-hunter-biden-pardon\/\" title=\"Cruz foresees Hunter Biden pardon schedule\">high-profile pardon<\/a> during his term was for his son Hunter Biden after he was convicted on gun charges and pleaded guilty to tax charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden is expected to issue more pardons before he leaves the White House next month, as outgoing presidents typically do. His vow to &ldquo;take steps in the weeks ahead&rdquo; alludes to further action before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn back into law.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3251021\/preemptive-pardon-how-biden-plans-have-precedent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reportedly\">reportedly<\/a> considered preemptive pardons for perceived enemies of Trump, before he retakes the Oval Office. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1910261\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1910261\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences, a record for pardons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2379230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/biden-clemency-dec-2024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,27310,36352,46642,32076],"class_list":["post-2379229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-commutation","tag-criminal-justice-reform","tag-pardon-power","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/biden-clemency-dec-2024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379233,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379229\/revisions\/2379233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}