President Joe Biden granted commutations to nearly 1,500 non-violent offenders and pardoned thirty-nine others on Thursday, marking the largest single-day clemency action in U.S. history, according to the White House. The commutations mainly affect people placed on home confinement under the CARES Act and who have shown they have changed for the better. The pardons are for individuals like a military veteran, a disaster-response nurse, and an addiction counselor. The White House noted Biden’s record-setting use of clemency powers, including marijuana-related categorical pardons and pardons for former LGBTQI+ service members.
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00:02President Joe Biden granted commutations to nearly 1,500 nonviolent offenders,
00:06and pardoned 39 others on Thursday, marking the largest single-day clemency action
00:11in US history, according to the White House. Commutations mainly affect people who have
00:16been placed on home confinement under the CARES Act, and who have shown they have changed for
00:20the better. The pardons are for individuals like a military veteran, a disaster response nurse,
00:25and an addiction counselor. The White House noted Biden's record-setting use of clemency powers
00:29including marijuana-related categorical pardons, and pardons for former LGBTQI plus service members.
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