Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy said Monday that President Joe Biden usurped the power of Congress by commuting the sentences of nearly everyone on federal death row.
Biden's move will affect the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, not including the Boston Marathon bomber and two other inmates. McCarthy said on “America's Newsroom” that the president's actions were an “abuse of his pardon power” because he interfered with Congress' role in disciplining federal cases.
“I think this is yet another abuse of the pardon power,” McCarthy said. “I think it's interesting, Julie.” [Banderas]claimed that the Biden Justice Department and the Obama-Biden Justice Department did not grant death penalty commutations to three death row inmates or death row inmates they processed. So when it comes to these families and the grief and pain that they're going through, he can't look them in the eye and say, “Well, progressive principles don't allow us to move forward with the death penalty here.'' Ta. But he wiped the slate clean from everyone else and did it in a way that amounted to a decisive change in the law. That's for Congress to decide, and using the pardon power that way is an abuse. ”
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McCarthy writes: column National Review supporters argue that it is Congress' role to legislate and abolish the death penalty, and accuse Biden of abusing his pardon power by failing to outlaw executions. did.
“If this country is evolving beyond the death penalty, as progressives claim, there would be an easy way to make it clear: Congress could enact a law banning the death penalty. “Maybe,” McCarthy wrote. “But that is not happening because far from a consensus against the death penalty, the public broadly approves of it. By failing to enact constitutional and legislative reforms consistent with his stated policy priorities, the president abused his pardon power, which gives him the power to prescribe penalties for federal criminal offenses. and usurped Congress's law-making powers.
A former federal prosecutor has accused Biden of “selective moral grooming” for commuting the death sentence set by the previous administration. (Related: Biden commutes sentences of cartel leaders, crack dealers, 'notorious' fraudsters in massive clemency push)
The president announced the sentencing of Thomas Stephen Sanders, who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old boy in Louisiana, and Richard Allen Jackson, who was convicted of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a 22-year-old boy in Louisiana. The sentence was commuted. -An old jogger from North Carolina, According to To USA Today.
Biden is on death row for his role in the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting that killed 11 people, as well as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. USA Today reported that Robert Bowers' sentence was not commuted. Reported. The president also refused to commute the sentence of Dylann Roof, who was convicted of setting fire to an African-American church in 2015.
The president's action extends his record of criminal justice reform, issuing more commutations than any of his recent White House predecessors. said In a statement.
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