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How Biden could find himself on the same side as Trump
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How Biden could find himself on the same side as Trump
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Trump left behind a clemency mess. The clock’s ticking for Biden to solve it.
Lawyers and criminal justice advocates are pushing Biden to act swiftly. But Covid and the economy are pushing action back.
How President Joe Biden acts issues of clemency, and how quickly he does so, will go a long way in determining the type of record he leaves on matters of criminal justice reform. | Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images
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When Joe Biden took office, he inherited the largest backlog of unresolved clemency cases in U.S. history: 14,000 people waiting to find out if their convictions would be erased or sentences reduced, or if they’d get any answer at all.
Politico piece shining a light on federal clemency under this full headline: Trump left behind a clemency mess. The clock’s ticking for Biden to solve it. Lawyers and criminal justice advocates are pushing Biden to act swiftly. But Covid and the economy are pushing action back. I recommend the whole piece, and here are excerpts:
Biden’s White House counsel’s office has started to reach out to attorneys and advocates for suggestions on reforms, what could be done about the backlog, and mistakes they believe were made in previous administrations, according to the people familiar with the conversations. Roy Austin, an Obama administration veteran who served on the Biden transition team on Justice Department issues, has spoken to advocates as well. Biden’s new adviser on criminal justice issues at the Domestic Policy Council, Chiraag Bains, is expected to play a role too, according to two people familiar with the situation.
‘Gymnastics Enthusiast’ in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel Came Up with a Way to Block Biden from Reading ‘Restricted’ Trump Admin Archives Jerry Lambe
In a last-minute attempt to assuage outgoing President
Donald Trump’s privacy concerns, the Justice Department last month issued a legal opinion stating that upon taking office, President
Joe Biden cannot access electronic records from the previous administration, even if those records are still on the president’s hardware after his inauguration.
The six-page memo penned by the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Devin DeBacker, an apparent “gymnastics enthusiast” states that under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) the U.S. Archivist, not the incoming president, assumes responsibility for the “custody, control, and preservation of” all records of the previous administration. DeBacker previously worked under Trump’s former White House Counsel
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