The days are counting down until U.S. President Joe Biden exits the White House but before he goes the octogenarian is doing some judicial housekeeping.
On Thursday he issues presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes while commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
The White House has not given the names of the people involved in the mass commutations, AP reports.
The U.S. Constitution decrees a president has the broad “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”
Earlier this month, Biden issued a controversial pardon to his son Hunter, as Breitbart News reported.
Biden Jr. was facing sentencing for two criminal cases and his father’s move came after he spent years saying he would do no such thing.