{"id":133136,"date":"2024-12-04T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133136"},"modified":"2024-12-04T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:46:48","slug":"top-house-democrat-calls-on-biden-to-pardon-working-class-americans-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133136","title":{"rendered":"Top House Democrat calls on Biden to pardon \u2018working-class Americans\u2019 | Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, has called on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Joe Biden<\/a> to pardon some \u201cworking-class Americans\u201d after the president faced criticism for pardoning his son Hunter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cDuring his final weeks in office, President Biden should exercise the high level of compassion he has consistently demonstrated throughout his life, including toward his son, and pardon on a case-by-case basis the working-class Americans in the federal prison system whose lives have been ruined by unjustly aggressive prosecutions for nonviolent offenses,\u201d Jeffries said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Biden, who leaves office on 20 January, for months had said he would not pardon his son, who was found guilty of lying about being addicted to illegal drugs while buying a gun and pleaded guilty to criminal charges of failing to pay $1.4m in taxes. The sweeping pardon also applied to any other crimes \u201che committed or may have committed\u201d between 1 January 2014 and 1 December this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The president said he believed his son had been made the target of a politically motivated prosecution. Republicans including Donald Trump condemned the move, as did some Democrats who said it eroded trust in the judicial system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Last month, more than 60 members of Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/20\/biden-clemency-prison-incarceration-pardons\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">urged Biden to use his clemency power<\/a> to confront mass incarceration and reunite families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cNow is the time to use your clemency authority to rectify unjust and unnecessary criminal laws passed by Congress and draconian sentences given by judges,\u201d the lawmakers, led by Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, wrote in a letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The letter noted that the US has disproportionately incarcerated people of color, low-income individuals, members of the LGBTQ+ community and those with disabilities, and that 90% of the federal prison population was convicted on non-violent offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">As of November, there were more than 12,000 bids for sentence commutations and 4,000 pardon requests on his desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\"><em>Ed Pilkington contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/03\/hakeem-jeffries-biden-pardon\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, has called on Joe Biden to pardon some \u201cworking-class Americans\u201d after the president faced criticism for pardoning his son &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133136\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}