• CitricBase@lemmy.world
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    6 hours 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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      3 hours ago

      Don’t call it an oops.

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

      • MonkeyBusiness@sh.itjust.works
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        31 minutes ago

        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.