President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.
President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 convicted criminals — setting a new record for most individual pardons and commutations ever issued by a president.
The president said that with Friday's action he has "now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history."
In a final report on his investigation, special counsel David Weiss said President Biden's criticism "undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable."
The Department ... of Justice based solely on false accusations," he wrote. Hunter Biden was convicted in June of federal gun charges for lying about his addiction to crack cocaine when he ...
The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration