{"id":2383282,"date":"2024-12-24T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-uses-controversial-clemency-while-otherwise-fading-from-view-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:15:49","slug":"biden-uses-controversial-clemency-while-otherwise-fading-from-view-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-uses-controversial-clemency-while-otherwise-fading-from-view-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden uses controversial clemency while otherwise fading from view &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-uses-controversial-clemency-while-otherwise-fading-from-view-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=2383282&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 article discusses President Joe Biden&#8217;s\u200b use of clemency powers \u2062during the\u2064 final days of his\u200b term,\u2063 particularly his decision to commute\u2063 the death sentences of 37 out of 40 federal inmates. This move has\u200b sparked controversy due to the nature of\u2062 the crimes committed by these individuals, which include serious offenses like murder and rape. Critics, including representatives from\u2062 the Trump campaign, condemned Biden\u2019s actions as\u2062 disrespectful to victims and\u200d their families. the article \u200bnotes that Biden, who faded from public visibility\u2062 as Donald Trump\u2063 became prominent, was pushed out of consideration for the 2024 presidential race \u200dfollowing poor debate performances, leading to the conclusion that such \u200bclemency decisions are more feasible for an outgoing president not facing re-election. Biden expressed his compassion \u200bfor the victims while justifying\u200c his\u200c decisions based on personal conscience and experience.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden keeps up with controversial acts of clemency while otherwise fading from view<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1919580\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> is leaning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3268827\/biden-parting-outrage-commuted-sentences-prisoners-federal-death-row\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">heavily into his clemency powers<\/a> in the waning days of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">term<\/a>, using a tool only available to an incumbent without fear of political backlash.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Fading from public view as President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> increasingly wields the bully pulpit, Biden started Christmas week off by commuting the death sentences of 37 of the 40 convicts awaiting execution at the federal level on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a wave of commutations and pardons issued by the outgoing president since a sweeping pardon of his son Hunter at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s act of clemency benefited people who committed grisly acts, including rape and murder. If he were still a candidate for reelection rather than a departing president, he would be vulnerable to the type of Willie Horton ad that helped George H.W. Bush defeat Democrat Michael Dukakis by a landslide margin in 1988.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220465\/what-trump-promised-day-one-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHAT TRUMP HAS PROMISED TO DO ON DAY 1 IN THE OVAL OFFICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are among the worst killers in the world, and this abhorrent decision by Joe Biden is a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones,&rdquo; Trump communications director Steven Cheung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3269385\/trump-team-calls-biden-death-row-commutations-slap-face-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> in a statement. &ldquo;President Trump stands for the rule of law, which will return when he is back in the White House after he was elected with a massive mandate from the American people.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Biden was pushed out of the 2024 presidential race by Democratic leaders after a disastrous debate performance. His replacement at the top of the Democrats&rsquo; ticket, Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, went on to lose the election in November. This is a move that can only be made by a politician who will never face the voters again.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,&rdquo; Biden said in a statement issued by the White House. &ldquo;But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Without mentioning Trump by name, Biden indicated he could not let his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">predecessor-turned-successor execute<\/a> these prisoners. &ldquo;These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-leaves-three-men-on-death-row-after-saying-country-must-stop-executions-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Biden leaves three men on death row after saying country must \u2018stop\u2019 executions - Washington Examiner\">hate-motivated mass murder<\/a>,&rdquo; he said, explaining three federal death row inmates he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3268652\/biden-leaves-three-men-death-row-saying-country-must-stop-executions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">chose not to spare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s death penalty communications come ahead of his final trip as president, where he will visit Pope Francis, who has called for an end to such executions. Biden is the second Catholic president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Biden distanced himself from Catholic teachings on social issues such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">abortion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/513087\/formerly-anti-abortion-biden-now-counts-on-roe-vember-to-save-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">embracing the reinstatement<\/a> of <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>as a top Democratic campaign issue after opposing the 1973 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Supreme Court<\/a> ruling into the 1980s. Trump beat Harris, Biden&rsquo;s preferred successor, among Catholic voters by 20 points. Harris won just 35% of white Catholics to Trump&rsquo;s 63%, according to exit polls.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has now pardoned more than 8,000 people, though a few more controversial than when he erased not just two Hunter Biden felony convictions but protected him from crimes potentially committed as far back as 2014. That covers much of the time period in which the younger Biden was involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-pirro-everything-that-hunter-biden-did-is-dirty\/\" title=\"FNC&#039;s Pirro: &#039;Everything that Hunter Biden Did Is Dirty&#039;\">shady foreign business dealings<\/a> that some have alleged might implicate his father while he was a sitting and then former vice president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether other members of the Biden family, such as his brother James, will be pardoned in the closing days of the administration. Divisive pardons, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Bill Clinton<\/a>&rsquo;s of Marc Rich in 2001, are often delayed until the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s activity on the clemency front stands in sharp contrast with his relative silence on averting a government shutdown late last week, where Trump and his team were much more vocal. Biden signed legislation into law over the weekend, keeping the federal government open.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s term will expire as Trump is sworn into office for a second nonconsecutive term at noon on Jan. 20.<\/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_1919580\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1919580\"}});<\/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 exercises clemency powers amid fading visibility as Trump rises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2659,"featured_media":2383283,"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\/Hunter-Biden-Joe-Biden-pardon-hhnbb4.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,22725,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2383282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-clemency","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hunter-Biden-Joe-Biden-pardon-hhnbb4.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383282","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\/2659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383286,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383282\/revisions\/2383286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}