President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.
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FILE - Virginia House of Delegates speaker, Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, waves to family in the gallery during the opening of the 2024 session of the Virginia General Assembly at the Capitol, Jan. 10, 2024, in Richmond, Va. FILE - In this August 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform as the"Provisional President of Africa" during a parade on the opening day of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World along Lenox Avenue in Harlem borough of New York.
It's still not clear whether Biden will use his last day in office to give pardons to people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect— for actual or imagined offenses by Trump’s critics that could be investigated or prosecuted by the incoming administration — would stretch the powers of the presidency in untested ways.
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