Michael Conahan was convicted of accepting $2.8m for jailing more than 2,300 children, some as young as eight
  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.worldOP
    66·
    4 months ago

    This is enraging. Makes my blood boil.

    I’m not seeing anyone reporting on an actual reason biden would do this. If anyone has any source on that I’d like to see it. What the fuck could his justification be? If anything, the judges deserved much harsher sentences, not a fucking pardon.

    Insanity. If not, please enlighten me.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      You see, when you are rich you are living the good life. So as a judge would say: Apart from abusing a trusted position, and being wealthy and having privileges far above the norm, so he didn’t need corruption top live a more than decent life. But apart from that, and being corrupt despite that. He lived an otherwise good life!!

      Yes people have freaking gotten off on such nonsense!!! Except the parts that expose the double standard of course.
      These assholes believe that being privileged means they actually deserve MORE privileges. When they should be punished HARDER!. A homeless person struggling to survive, can get years in prison for stealing a snack bar! No mercy for the poor! He can’t even afford a decent lawyer, so we can discard him as we please, and not get in trouble for it.

      The system is so badly tilted to favor the privileged with more privileges in all aspects of life.

    • CitricBase@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      This has to have been some kind of clerical error, there’s no political motivation whatsoever for Biden to have done this.

      That being the case, keep publicizing the story, and maybe it will get to the administrations radar. Have the clemencies already been actuated, or is there still time to correct the mistake?

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 months ago

    That guy was a Pennsylvania state judge and must have broken a zillion Pennsylvania laws with that scheme. Why was he only taken in on Federal charges? Biden can’t pardon state charges, apparently. So if he had been locked up under state law, he’d still be locked up.

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    What a kick in the victims’ teeth. Commuting this guy’s sentence is Trump-level corrupt, one of the more despicable things Biden has done.