Cadbury chocolate, a particular favorite of the late Queen Elizabeth II, has not been granted a royal warrant for the first time in 170 years.
A total of 100 companies were removed from the royal warrant list, which indicates global excellence.
The companies removed, including Cadbury, have one year to remove the royal seal from their packaging and marketing materials. Each royal warrant granted lasts for 5 years.
It is royal protocol not to give a reason for the removal.
It's possible that the removal was due to a request from Ukrainian campaigners that the brand not be given the royal seal because its U.S. parent company Mondelez had not stopped production in Russia amid the Ukraine war.
Other companies like Nestle and Bacardi that similarly did not stop production in Russia did get their royal warrants renewed, however.
The supply of Cadbury to the royal family has also dropped since the Queen's death.
She would request boxes of Bournville every year at Christmas.
It is the first set of royal warrants awarded by King Charles.
He renewed 386 titles his mother had bestowed on companies during her tenure as Queen.
He has been battling cancer as well as dealing with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who have stopped being working royals and moved to the United States with their children.
At age 76, it's not certain how long his reign will be, especially with the health issues he has had recently.
Queen Elizabeth II had a long reign of 70 years and lived to be 96 years old.
His oldest son William is set to succeed him as King when the time comes.
The campaign of lawfare that has engulfed much of President-elect Donald Trump's life for the past several years has been falling apart to an astonishing degree in recent months, and according to one prominent commentator, that collapse may be poised to continue.
With prosecutors in New York, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. suffering one defeat after another, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson recently suggested that now a civil case in which Trump was found liable to the tune of millions could also soon be subject to reversal, as the Daily Caller reports.
Hanson's opinion emerged during a recent installment of his podcast, The Victor Davis Hanson Show, in which ABC's recent legal settlement with Trump was discussed.
The network's decision to resolve a lawsuit filed by Trump over allegedly defamatory comments made by This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos could have significant implications for an appeal in writer E. Jean Carroll's previously successful case against the incoming commander-in-chief.
Hanson referenced the fact that Stephanopoulos repeatedly claimed during his Sunday panel program that in the Carroll case, Trump was found “liable for rape.”
Prior to settling the case with Trump, Stephanopoulos referenced comments made by the presiding judge in the Carroll case suggesting that while the jury had not specifically found that the defendant committed rape, there was no practical difference in their finding of “sexual abuse.”
The judge said that the jury's verdict should not be taken to mean that Carroll failed to prove that Mr. Trump 'raped' her as many people commonly understand the word 'rape.' Indeed...the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
Hanson offered listeners a detailed explanation of why he believes Carroll's jury windfall may now be vulnerable to reversal due to the judge's unchecked musings from the bench.
“Well, George Stephanopoulos gave an interview, and I think on 11 occasions he said Donald Trump committed rape. In the E. Jean Carroll civil suit, she alleged that she was sexually attacked by him. The jury found that he did not commit rape but that he had committed, there was a likelihood he'd committed sexual assault,” Hanson said.
The podcaster and writer continued, “And the judge [Kaplan], as I remember his name, had misspoken and said, 'Well' somebody had corrected him or reminded him that he had never been convicted of rape and he said, 'What's the difference?' something along that line.”
“And that I think will be cause for reversal because that's up on appeal,” Hanson declared.
Outlining the rationale for that take, he added, “The judge basically...show[ed] pre-existing prejudice that if the judge knew the jury had not found or was not considering rape and yet he said publicly that they were indistinguishable, then that's going to be appealed.”
Trump's legal victories have continued to mount in the run-up to his inauguration, with both federal cases leveled by special counsel Jack Smith now dead in the water and Fulton County Fani Willis recently disqualified from continuing her pursuit of a RICO case against the incoming president.
Whether Hanson's prediction about the ultimate fate of Carroll's lucrative civil win proves correct, however, only time will tell.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris abruptly changed vacation plans and returned to Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the Sun reported. There's no word on why this happened, which fueled speculation.
Biden was set to spend the Christmas break at his home in Delaware while Harris was heading back to California. However, both had their plans canceled as they returned to the capital on Thursday.
The president was later seen returning to the White House with his family, including his grandson Beau. It's still unclear why he was needed in the nation's capital on short notice.
🔥🚨BREAKING: Joe Biden has arrived at the White House after canceling his Delaware holiday stay. Kamala Harris also returned to the White House under an emergency. There is still no confirmation on why Biden and Harris returned. pic.twitter.com/8WnCNnFmUA
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) December 20, 2024
Democrats and Republicans have been arguing about how to solve the funding shortfall that would have shut down the government at midnight Saturday. A bipartisan bill earlier this week would have extended government operations until March, but President-elect Donald Trump urged lawmakers to reject it.
The incoming Republican and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance felt it had too many concessions for Democratic pet causes. The bill would have given farmers $10 billion for relief and provided $100 billion in disaster relief.
"If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then call their bluff. It is [Chuck] Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief," Trump and Vance said in a joint statement.
The major sticking point for Trump was the increase to the debt ceiling, which is currently at $31.4 trillion. Democrats wanted to blow the lid off and allow for more spending.
That's precisely what ultimately passed just ahead of Saturday's deadline to keep the government open. The third iteration of the bill included disaster and farm aid but left out the increase in the debt ceiling.
Avoiding a government shutdown was certainly a priority for Democrats and would perhaps explain why the top two politicians in the party would stick around until it was resolved. However, others speculate that increased tension in the war between Ukraine and Russia may have had something to do with it.
Around the same time that Harris and Biden were returning to Washington, D.C., Russia sent several ballistic missiles into Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv, the Washington Post reported. At least one person was killed and 12 others injured.
This represented an increase in aggression not long after Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged allies of Ukraine to a "duel" at his year-end conference. He was insinuating that Russia's Oreshnik missile system, with nuclear-capable and intermediate-range artillery, was unstoppable.
There are many tense and dangerous situations happening in the world that could have taken Biden and Harris back to Washington, D.C. Without any definitive information, it's still anyone's guess why they would have canceled vacation plans.
Jefferson Griffin, who is running for North Carolina state Supreme Court judge, asked that court to toss 60,000 votes his legal team deemed problematic, NBC News reported. Griffin is losing to Democratic challenger Justice Allison Riggs by just 734 votes in that race.
Griffin is an appeals court judge who wished to move to the state's highest court this election cycle. With the race so close, he believes the Democrat-controlled election board needs to hold off on certifying the vote because the votes in question were unlawfully cast.
"In the 2024 general election, the Board’s errors changed the outcome of the election for the open seat on this Court. When those errors were raised again in valid election protests, the Board then claimed that it was too late to fix its law-breaking," Griffin's attorneys asserted.
Nearly 5 million votes had been cast in that election, and a machine count revealed the relative closeness of the two candidates. However, the court previously rejected Griffin's request to throw out what he calls fraudulent votes because they didn't have a photo ID or Social Security number to verify the votes.
North Carolina Democrats are currently in the minority in the court's 5-2 balance. They claim Griffin is attempting to use that to his advantage to sway a free and fair election.
"There is a five alarm fire happening in NC right now. In a truly outlandish move, Jefferson Griffin has now taken his attack on voters one step further," the North Carolina Democratic Party posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.
"He is hiding behind Chief Justice Paul Newby and he is now trying to achieve what’s been aiming for all along: getting the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court to toss out legitimate ballots and hand this seat to him. There have been multiple recounts that all confirmed that Justice Riggs won this seat by 734 votes," the post went on.
"His conduct continues to demonstrate that he is not fit to serve on the Court. Concede now," Democrats urged.
🚨There is a five alarm fire happening in NC right now. In a truly outlandish move, Jefferson Griffin has now taken his attack on voters one step further. He is hiding behind Chief Justice Paul Newby and he is now trying to achieve what’s been aiming for all along: getting the…
— NC Democratic Party (@NCDemParty) December 19, 2024
This race between the judges highlights an ongoing problem with trust in elections. Griffin's attorneys maintain that these votes should never have been counted, but the North Carolina State Board of Elections has rejected three of their disputes.
Still, Patrick Gannon, a spokesperson for the NCSBE, said that they have "certified the vote totals" in the election between the judges but can't finalize results "until all protests and appeals are adjudicated." Griffin's team had also filed a federal case asking that 225,000 ineligible voters be removed.
That case was tossed out of federal court, but Griffin's legal filings for the latest complaint assert that his objections are "questions that our nation’s system of federalism reserves for state courts, not federal courts." Perhaps this is easy for opponents to explain away as sour grapes from Griffin.
However, the 2024 presidential election's favorable results for GOP President-elect Donald Trump have done little to dispel persistent rumors about election fraud, CBS News reported. While the network claims that the idea of widespread voter fraud has been debunked, there is a deep mistrust in the process.
The state will eventually hash out its election results between Griffin and Riggs. However, that won't put to rest the persistent feeling that the process can no longer be trusted, especially when verifying voters are who they say they are is no longer a priority.
A new report from House GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk found that former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney broke "numerous federal laws" while serving as vice chair of the January 6 Select Committee, CNN reported. Trump said Cheney "could be in a lot of trouble" based on this report.
House Republicans are urging the FBI to investigate Cheney for infractions, including witness tampering in the investigation the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the Capitol. Trump shared the information on his Truth Social Tuesday morning.
"Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that 'numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI,'" Trump wrote. He thanked Loudermilk and Newsmax's Greg Kelly for their digging.
According to Fox News, the report found that Cheney engaged in "potential criminal witness tampering" with Trump's former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson. She was the "star witness" for the prosecution who claimed Trump had tried to overpower a Secret Service vehicle to head to the Capitol during the unrest.
Her laughable assertions became the center of the committee's case against Trump. However, Loudermilk found that Cheney was instrumental in convincing Hutchison to fire her counsel and go with "the attorneys Representative Cheney suggested," the report noted.
Hutchinson then "sat for her fourth transcribed interview with the Select Committee under unusual circumstances" not afforded to other witnesses. "It consisted of only four people: Representative Cheney, one attorney from the Select Committee, Hutchinson, and Hutchinson’s new counsel," Loudermilk's report said.
"Additionally, instead of the Select Committee conducting the interview in a conference room or virtually, Representative Cheney used her private hideaway inside of the United States Capitol Building," the report added. Hutchinson's testimony also received unusual gravitas from Cheney.
"Hutchinson is mentioned by name in the Select Committee’s Final Report no fewer than 185 times. Inexplicably, the Select Committee discredited the multitude of legitimate witnesses who, under oath, repeatedly refuted Hutchinson’s testimony. These legitimate witnesses include senior government officials and federal agents," Loudermilk's report said.
Even in light of these accusations about Cheney, CNN still spun its coverage to focus on whether Trump's Justice Department will go after his enemies. The news outlet made a big deal about Trump's surrogates pursuing "retribution" even if the president-elect doesn't direct them to it.
However, the accusations are compelling and seem to check out. Former Republican National Committee Chair Lara Trump, who is also Trump's daughter, indicated that investigations are coming because of this report.
"These people ought to be ashamed of themselves. I know they aren’t, so we’ll go ahead and shame them," Lara Trump said.
"Wait until Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard get in there," Lara Trump said of Donald Trump's pick for FBI head and director of national intelligence, respectively. Considering what the Loudermilk report already found, investigating Cheney's conduct is warranted.
Donald Trump is cheering the opportunity to finally expose his political enemies for what they are. Everything done in darkness will finally come to light whether they like it or not.
Sen. John Fetterman said he would vote "from an open-mind and an informed opinion" on President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks, including former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Breitbart reported. The Pennsylvania Democrat made his intentions known in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
Fetterman shared a post from Hegseth, Trump's pick to head the Defense Department, expressing high praise for Fetterman's "fairness, courage & hospitality." Hegseth has faced many attacks since Trump tapped him for the job.
His tattoos were flagged as symbols of "white supremacy" when, in fact, they express his Christian faith. Hegseth was also dragged through the mud about a supposed rape in 2017, which he was never charged for.
The New York Times also smeared Hegseth with "an angry email" his mother wrote to him for "mistreating women." As it turned out, that letter was something his mother had apologized for and no longer stood behind.
In the face of all of these attacks, Fetterman has been level-headed in his approach to Hegseth and other Trump nominees, including Elise Stafanik, Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador, and Tulsi Gabbard, the nominee for national security director. Hegseth thanked Fetterman for his "fairness, courage & hospitality" in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.
"Thank you @JohnFetterman for your fairness, courage & hospitality. I appreciate our time together — and your commitment to the troops, American defense & our ally Israel. And, from a Vikings fan…go Steelers," Hegseth wrote.
The junior senator shared the post and responded in kind. "I believe that it’s appropriate and the responsibility of a U.S. Senator to have a conversation with President-elect Trump's nominees. That’s why I met with Elise Stefanik and Pete Hegseth, just wrapped with Tulsi Gabbard, and look forward to my meetings with others soon," Fetterman wrote in his post to X on Tuesday.
"My votes will come from an open-mind and an informed opinion after having a conversation with them. That’s not controversial, it's my job," Fetterman wrote.
I believe that it’s appropriate and the responsibility of a U.S. Senator to have a conversation with President-elect Trump's nominees.
That’s why I met with Elise Stefanik and Pete Hegseth, just wrapped with Tulsi Gabbard, and look forward to my meetings with others soon.
My… pic.twitter.com/Vli5tr8XSr
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) December 17, 2024
This pragmatic approach is a continuation of Fetterman's move to the right as he increasingly becomes disillusioned with the Democratic Party. On Fox News last month, Fetterman noted that "one area where we kind of lost ourselves was the border," among others.
"And I've been on this network, you know, months, months ago saying, 'Hey, you know, it can't be controversial for our party to have pro-immigration, but we need a secure border.' And when we ask or demand people to not believe what they see, and see those kind of numbers, that that's not a problem," Fetterman said of Democrats' losing approach to illegal immigration.
"It's like, well, then you lose about that 100%," Fetterman added. He also acknowledged that he sided with Israel in its war with Hamas and believed that Trump's stance aligned with his.
"In terms of the incoming administration, I actually like what I see in terms of being very, very strong pro-Israel," Fetterman shockingly admitted. It seems Trump has an ally in a very unlikely place.
The Democrats hate giving even an inch to Trump and his agenda. Meanwhile, Fetterman is happy to consider Trump's nominees and give credit where it's due, even if it means going against his party's current crusade to stop Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would pardon New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whom he believes "was treated pretty unfairly," the New York Post reported. Trump said this Monday during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence and resort.
President Joe Biden has recently engaged in his own pardon blitz on his way out of office. In light of this fact, a reporter media asked Trump about the likelihood of him doing the same for Adams, whom he has defended in the past.
"I would," Trump replied to the reporter's question. "I think that he was treated pretty unfairly," Trump added. One of the charges leveled at Adams involves an alleged bribe in the form of an upgraded ticket on a flight.
"Now, I haven’t seen the gravity of it all, but it seems like being upgraded on an airplane many years ago. I think everybody here has been upgraded. I’d have to see it because I don’t know the facts," Trump added.
Trump knows a thing or two about political targeting from his own cases, particularly in New York. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan Congress was shocked by the flagrant abuses in Trump's case, so much so that he launched a probe.
In April, Jordan addressed his concerns to Attorney General Merrick Garland in an open letter. "The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials," Jordan wrote.
"Since last year, popularly elected prosecutors—who campaigned for office on the promise of prosecuting President Trump—engaged in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current leading candidate for that office," he added. Trump believes Adams was similarly targeted in New York.
According to Fox News, Trump homed in on Adams' stance on illegal immigration as an explanation for bringing the heat down on him. It seems Adams's troubles began when he begged for relief from the influx of newcomers who were gobbling up city resources.
Trump said he saw the writing on the wall for Adams after that. "I said, ‘He’s going to be indicted. And a few months later, he got indicted," Trump said.
It's still unclear if Adams is guilty of taking bribes or any other crime. However, Trump would be well within his rights to pardon Adams if push comes to shove because Biden has made some unprecedented moves, including granting a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
The younger Biden was recently found guilty of gun and tax evasion charges. He was awaiting sentencing when the president issued his fiat that would free his convicted son.
As Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out when asked about it on Meet the Press this week, this sets a new precedent for pardons. "I think two things: When you have his opponents going after his family, as a father, as a parent, I think we can all understand Biden trying to protect his son and his family," Sanders claimed.
"On the other hand, I think the precedent being set is kind of a dangerous one. It was a very wide open pardon which could, under different circumstances, lead to problems in terms of future presidents," Sanders pointed out.
With Trump going into his second and final term as president, he will be free to pardon whomever he chooses. Adams could benefit from having such a powerful advocate who would follow the most pardon-happy president of all time.
While many Democrats are working to derail Trump at every opportunity, there are at least a few good liberals left in America who are interested in working WITH Donald Trump to make America better, not against him.
Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, has called for President-elect Trump to be pardoned in his New York hush money case.
Fetterman made the claim during his first-ever social media post.
Fetterman isn't afraid to utilize a little common sense, something that separates him from most of his Democrat colleagues. He pointed out similarities between Hunter Biden's case and Donald Trump's case, noting that only one of them has been pardoned so far.
"The Trump hush money and Hunter Biden cases were both bulls‑‑‑, and pardons are appropriate," Fetterman said. "Weaponizing the judiciary for blatant, partisan gain diminishes the collective faith in our institutions and sows further division."
Even though John Fetterman supported Hunter Biden in the same message, liberals were horrified to see John Fetterman supporting Donald Trump at all. Additionally, Fetterman posted the message on his own Truth Social account, which made the cut hurt even a little more for liberals.
"I think that it’s undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really politically motivated, but I also think it’s true that the trial in New York for Trump was political as well, too," John Fetterman said.
"In both cases, I think a pardon is appropriate and I really think, collectively, that America’s confidence in these types of institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases, and we cannot allow these types of institutions to be weaponized against our political opponents," Fetterman concluded.
Representative Dean Phillips, a Democrat from Minnesota, also recently said that Donald Trump should be pardoned, although for different reasons.
"Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim," Phillips said on social media. "Kathy Hochul should pardon him for the good of the country."
Dean Phillips appears to support a Trump pardon, and the citizens of America seem to want to give Donald a pass as well. If America was really as appalled at Donald Trump's "crimes" as liberals say we are, then Trump never would have smashed Kamala Harris in the 2024 Election.
Even before Donald Trump picked up tremendous momentum heading into Election Day 2024, a majority of Americans didn't want to see Donald Trump go to prison. A poll published by Fox in July showed that only 48% of Americans thought that Trump should serve any prison time even after being convicted of a felony. The same survey showed that 50% of Americans did NOT think Trump should serve any jail time.
Heading into Election Day, Trump only gained steam. By the time we were ready to cast our ballots, Trump seemed like he was on top of the world.
Donald CLOBBERED Kamala Harris in 2024, with Kamala losing by more electoral college votes than Hillary had in 2016. If Donald Trump REALLY deserved to be in jail, Americans would have put him there.
Instead, we put him in the White House.
A tech researcher-turned-whistleblower known for his work in artificial intelligence was found dead late last month in his San Francisco apartment, spurring speculation about what went wrong or the young man.
Suchir Balaji, age 26, was discovered deceased on Nov. 26 when police conducted a welfare check at his home, as the BBC reports.
According to the medical examiner's office, Balaji's death was ruled a suicide, with no signs of foul play apparent.
However, it was Balaji's recent statements regarding artificial intelligence -- specifically those of his former employer, OpenAI -- that have added a layer of intrigue to his passing.
Balaji had become an outspoken critic of OpenAI's data harvesting practices, which have embroiled the company in a host of litigation.
It was back in October that Balaji told the New York Times that he believes OpenAI has operated in violation of copyright law, particularly with regard to its development of the ChatGPT tool.
In Balaji's estimation, gleaned from his four years of experience at OpenAI, the company's use of copyrighted material to construct ChatGPT was illegal and that the end product was “damaging the Internet,” claims echoed in lawsuits filed against the firm by the New York Times and a cadre of bestselling authors, among others.
A Cupertino, California, native, Balaji made a name for himself from an early age, succeeding in numerous programming contests and eventually making his way into the tech industry, as NDTV reports.
He was initially captivated by the potential of AI to revolutionize the world, believing that “neural networks could solve humanity's greatest problems.”
“I thought AI was a thing that could be used to solve unsolvable problems like curing diseases and stopping ageing...I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them,” he told the Times.
Balaji said that at first, he did not give a great deal of thought to whether his employer had a right to build products off the back of copyrighted material, but in 2022, when ChatGPT launched, he came to the conclusion that the process was a violation of the law.
Perhaps as a result of that realization, Balaji departed OpenAI in August to begin work on what he said were “personal projects,” alluding to no new professional role.
Balaji's former employer, OpenAI has taken issue with his claims, declaring, “We build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by longstanding and widely accepted legal precedents.”
In the wake of Balaji's passing, an OpenAI spokesperson expressed, “We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news today and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time.”
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of terrorist Mufid Abdulqader, Breitbart reported. He is the half-brother of Khaled Mashaal, the billionaire Hamas leader, and was convicted of funneling money to the terrorist organization.
Abdulqader's clemency came among a slew of others from Biden this week. With the stroke of a pen, Biden issued 39 pardons and commuted the sentences of 1,500 convicts.
Among them was Abdulqader, who was convicted in 2008 along with four others of using an American Muslim charity, Holy Land Foundation, to fund the terror group with its donations. Also named in that case was the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Notably, CAIR had a hand in softening the Biden-Harris administration's stance on antisemitism. Some believe Abdulqader's was about more than mercy.
The release of Abdulqader comes as hostage negotiations continue following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. It's possible that his release is part of that larger effort that is still underway to exchange hostages.
President-elect Donald Trump is already working on the problem and has increased pressure on Hamas to let some of their hostages go free. "Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East - But it’s all talk, and no action!" Trump said on his Truth Social earlier this month.
The incoming president promised "there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity" if they're not released by his inauguration. "Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!" Trump urged.
It's quite possible that Biden is attempting to save face by brokering backdoor deals before Trump assumes office. However, this decision to commute a terror sponsor's sentence comes amid several other similarly questionable actions from Biden.
According to Fox News, Biden has made controversial choices about who to give presidential pardons and sentence commutations to in the waning weeks of his presidency. Predictably, one of those pardons included his son, Hunter Biden who had serious gun and tax charges, among others not yet filed.
The president also made history for the sheer number of these moves, and it doesn't look like he'll be stopping anytime soon. "I will take more steps in the weeks ahead," Joe Biden promised.
"My Administration will continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice under the law, promote public safety, support rehabilitation and reentry, and provide meaningful second chances," he added. Joe Biden notched the record for granting the most clemency requests in a single day.
Some of the sentences commuted were for inmates placed on house arrest during the pandemic who "have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities," the president's announcement said. The White House has made it clear that the 39 pardons were for nonviolent offenders.
Joe Biden has nothing to lose in granting all of these requests as he departs from the White House. Unfortunately, the nation will suffer with people like Abdulqader now set free and possibly others who are even worse.