Biden Gets Unlikely Advice on Pardons: Copy Trump, Sideline DOJ
- Advocates push to eliminate DOJ control of process
- Biden urged to help non-violent drug offenders
Joe Biden
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President Donald Trump’s pardons of some of his closest allies have sparked a political firestorm, but criminal justice reform advocates believe he has done one thing right: sideline the Department of Justice from clemency decisions.
But rather than use that control the way Trump has, those advocates want to see President-elect Joe Biden use it to help non-violent drug offenders with questionable convictions or harsh sentences.