Hakeem Jeffries calls for ‘high level of compassion’ towards people in prison after president pardoned son HunterThe top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, has called on Joe Biden to pardon some “working-class Americans” after the president faced criticism for pardoning his son Hunter.“During his final weeks in office, President Biden should exercise the high level of compassion he has consistently demonstrated throughout his life, including toward his son, and pardon on a case-by-case basis the working-class Americans in the federal prison system whose lives have been ruined by unjustly aggressive prosecutions for nonviolent offenses,” Jeffries said in a statement. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-12-04 00:26:57
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Top House Democrat calls on Biden to pardon ‘working-class Americans’
