Tag: Reversal

Oversight Project Demands DOJ to Act on Trump Reversal of Biden Autopen Clemency

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL – The Oversight Project is calling for the Justice Department to keep incarcerated prisoners whose Biden autopen clemencies were voided by President Trump.  The watchdog group shared a video with The Daily Signal that focused on two individuals whose sentences Biden had commuted.  The Oversight Project was the first to call attention to the mass number of presidential actions taken via autopen.  This prompted a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee inquiry that found senior Biden White House officials were unclear if Biden was aware…

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Capital Crime Wave Prompts DC Mayor’s Major Reversal on Police Restraints

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Amid escalating crime in the nation’s capital, President Joe Biden went to bat for a “police reform” law passed by the D.C. Council by vetoing a bipartisan congressional measure that would have overturned it. Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to roll back the same law that Biden protected.  The House Oversight and Accountability Committee, whose oversight includes the District of Columbia, held two hearings earlier this year on the D.C. crime problem.  “Unfortunately, President Biden refused to stand by the Metropolitan Police Department and allowed the D.C. Council’s anti-police…

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The Rights Reversal

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The great divergence is rapidly expanding—and President Joe Biden’s window to reverse it is narrowing. Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim Crow racial segregation to the right to abortion to the authorization of same-sex marriage. But now, offensives by red-state governments and GOP-appointed federal judges are poised to retrench those common standards across an array of issues. The result through the…

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