President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh.
The recent round of clemency gives Biden the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued. The Democrat said he is seeking to undo “disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.”
I absolutely love that he did this. Of course, it would be much more effective and sustainable to end drug prohibition altogether. However, this is a move in the right direction. Interestingly, Trump pardoned the Silk Road founder, I think as an effort to one-up Biden on this? Who knows, the dude’s politics are barely coherent half the time.
Conservatives can try their best to halt progress, but they will just end up railroaded like everything else that has stood in it’s way.
