“The Justice Department pardon offices own emails show the final Biden auto-pen blitz was so clumsy and rushed that the chaos extended even to the most high-profile and controversial of all: his own son, Hunter.
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“an earlier notice had incorrectly described Hunter Biden as receiving a full and unconditional pardon "after completion of sentence,"
“Biden's clemency action "was not carried out in consultation with the Office of the Pardon Attorney and there was little coordination with the Department."
“This paints a troubling picture of a pardon process driven by politics and haste rather than the careful deliberation such extraordinary acts of executive clemency demand
“the Dec. 1 pardon "was not processed via application through our Office,"
“The first Trump Administration prioritized speed and salience over legal soundness, and its unilateral deregulatory efforts—some fairly characterized as "regulatory slop"—were largely undone once Trump left office.
“the president took clemency "very, very seriously,"
“the previous administration directing employees to peddle woke gibberish in high-level discussions and bilateral dialogue with foreign counterparts
“Many of the cases that were granted commutation on January 17 were not vetted through our office, and so the data we had available was not reviewed as carefully as we would ordinarily hope it to be.