President Biden has only granted 1.4% of clemency petitions submitted. There are four months left for cannabis justice before his term ends.

With the president’s decision to drop out of the race, he has effectively begun a longer lame-duck period, which is historically when most presidential clemency grants have occurred.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    814·
    2 months ago

    unrealistic in its timeline?

    people have waited for decades for a president from any party to give any amount of shits

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      121·
      2 months ago

      As others in this thread have stated, no such action is going to happen until after the election anyway.