Over Biden’s last few weeks in office, he went a bit crazy with pardons and commutations, especially in the days leading up to the inauguration.
It turns out, someone who had worked with administrations in the past regarding pardons and commutations did not agree with Biden.
In fact, she stated that Biden showed leniency for people that did not deserve it.
Too Lenient
Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer is someone who is very familiar with the DOJ and the pardon/commutation process.
Just days before Biden left office, Oyer wrote a rather scathing letter to the DOJ about Biden’s pardons and commutations.
She told the DOJ that there were people on Biden’s list “who otherwise wouldn’t meet the department’s standards for recommendation for receipt of clemency.”
Oyer added, “While I am a strong believer in the possibility of second chances through clemency, the process by which yesterday’s action was carried out was not what we had hoped and advocated for.”
Gary Brown, a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of New York, also spoke out against the pardons saying that these pardons “spotlight the problems that invariably arise when a president’s unreviewable pardon authority is deployed impetuously, resulting in careless execution of the president’s directives.”
Everyone is up in arms about Donald Trump’s pardons, but the same people crying about them are sitting on their hands about Joe Biden’s pardons.
Two wrongs do not make a right here, and you cannot excuse the pardons that Trump gave to J6 defendants who beat up on cops by dismissing the pardons given by Biden.
Considering some of the people that Biden either pardoned or commuted, one could make the argument Biden’s were far worse.
Biden offered lenience to career criminals, drug dealers, and murderers. And nobody seems to care.
