President Joe Biden's clemency grants far outnumbers the actions of other U.S. presidents during their first term in office, a look at the data show.
President Joe Biden made history last week when he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 prisoners and pardoned another 39 people— sparking mixed reactions from lawmakers, including Democrats, who noted that his actions far outpace the clemency actions of any other U.S. president serving his first term in office. In a statement last week announcing the new clemency actions, Biden said that America 'was built on the promise of possibility and second chances.
Before leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama granted clemency to 1,927 individuals during his two terms as president — the highest total of any modern president going back to former president Harry Truman, also a Democrat, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Justice Department data. Truman, who served as president from 1945 to 1953, granted clemency to 2,030 individuals during his two terms in office—slightly outpacing Obama's list. Franklin D.
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