Kim Kardashian is urging President Biden to “make pardons a key part of his legacy” before he leaves office next year.
Reality TV star and criminal justice reform advocatePost to XLast Monday, she visited the Department of Justice in Washington and met with U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer.
“We spoke about the many men and women who have accepted responsibility for their crimes, worked hard to rebuild their lives and are ready to come home from prison and be reunited with their families,” Kardashian, 43, wrote.
A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to ITK’s request for comment on Kardashian’s visit.
“Starting this week, I’ll be highlighting some of the biggest events in my stories,” Kardashian said in a message to her more than 75 million followers.
“I hope President Biden takes the opportunity to make pardons a key part of his legacy before he leaves office,” she said.
In 2018, then-President Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a Black woman who was serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug offense. Kardashian pressured Trump to pardon Johnson, meeting with him in the Oval Office.
Kardashian appeared with Vice President Harris at a roundtable focused on criminal justice reform in April. In October 2022, Biden announced pardons for thousands of people convicted under federal law for simple marijuana possession.
