• CitricBase@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Well that’s a fucking oops by Biden. Most of the clemencies on today’s list were ~1500 nonviolent drug offenders who deserved leniency. How the fuck did Conahan manage to slip in with them?

    Behind the Bastards did a series on this guy. TL;DR the guy deserves a hell of a lot worse than life in prison.

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      14 days ago

      Don’t call it an oops.

      Biden is not Trump. He reads things before he signs them. For whatever reason, this was intentional.

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        14 days ago

        Don’t call it an oops.

        This was either a massive lapse of bureaucracy, or it was a massive lapse in judgement. Either way, in my opinion it is one of Biden’s biggest mistakes in his entire four years of governance.

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        1,500 cases is a lot of reading. I don’t think Biden read all of those. He has someone do it for him. While I am not saying this it what happened because I have absolutely no evidence, it’s possible that someone in his administration that setup these commutations slipped the judge in as a favor.

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          Yeah, no one person read and looked into to that many people. 100% someone in the Biden administration clerked for the guy or something.