President Joe Biden is considering commuting the sentences of “most, if not all” federal death row inmates in the country, according to a new report.
The news comes via a shocking Wall Street Journal column citing sources close to the President who believe a final decision on the matter could be announced by Christmas Day.
The Journal notes Biden’s history of being a “devout Catholic,” an attribute which only emerges when the President needs to convince people he is motivated by deep religious beliefs despite being a devout advocate of abortion.
President Biden is considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government’s death row, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would frustrate President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to resume the rapid pace of executions that marked his first term.
A broad coalition of religious and civil-rights groups has been pressing Biden to take the step, and the effort gained momentum earlier this month after Pope Francis, in his weekly address, prayed for the commutation of America’s condemned inmates. If their death sentences were commuted, the prisoners, all convicted of murder, would serve life without parole.
The report adds that Biden has been pushed in this direction by Attorney General Merrick Garland – who doggedly pursued January 6th protesters and anti-abortion grandmothers praying outside of clinics with maximum criminal penalties – to commute all but a handful of terrorism and hate crimes cases.
That said, the angle at which Biden weighs the matter based on his deeply embedded Catholicism seems to indicate that a blanket commutation might be possible.
This is so like this total POS!!!
lead abortionist for the devil!