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President Biden used clemency extensively in late 2024 and the final minutes of his presidency: on Dec. 12, 2024 he pardoned 39 people and commuted the sentences of roughly 1,499 people in a single-da...
President Biden issued a large, final-day clemency package that included for a mix of family members, senior public officials, and participants in congressional inquiries, alongside a broad set of com...
President Joe Biden used clemency aggressively in his final year: he granted a high-volume commutation that freed 2,490 people (the White House list released Jan. 19, 2025) and issued headline-grabbin...
President Biden issued thousands of acts of clemency during his term — including blanket proclamations pardoning people convicted of certain federal marijuana offenses (October 2022 and December 2023)...
does not have a twin brother; multiple fact-checks and profiles of the Biden family note that he is the eldest of four children and has two younger and , not a twin . Viral social posts claiming or th...
President Joe Biden issued an unprecedented volume of clemency near and during the end of his term, ultimately granting roughly 4,245 acts of clemency over four years and commuting the sentences of ne...
President Joe Biden issued pre‑emptive pardons to multiple family members on Jan. 20, 2025, including his brothers James B. Biden and Francis W. Biden, his sister Valerie Biden Owens, and two spouses ...