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After the White House announced President Joe Biden’s decision switch the sentences of nearly all inmates on federal death row, Republicans criticized him for being “soft on crime.”
“Joe Biden is a no-brainercorrupt and demented failure. The White House has become a memory care center as Biden is run by his corrupt sons and Marxist staffers. That’s why 37 depraved murderers get clemency,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote in X.
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, US on December 10, 2024. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)
Cotton is the new president of both the GOP Senate conference and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
House Majority Leader Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital in a statement: “Unfortunately, this is not surprising given that the Biden-Harris administration has let murderers and rapists into our southern border for the past four years. Joe Biden’s criminal record is exactly why voters fired him and re-elected President Trump on November 5.”
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“Violent murderers should not have their sentences commuted,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, told X. “We need to end soft-crime policies.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called the measure “a slap in the face to the families who have suffered immeasurably at the hands of these animals.”
While Republicans made their discomfort known, Biden’s announcement was celebrated by some Democrats.
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US House Speaker Mike Johnson (C) flanked by US House Majority Representative Tom Emmer (L) and US House Majority Leader Representative Steve Scalise (R), speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on November 19. 2024 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“Today’s decision by the president provides accountability with a term of life in prison without the possibility of parole and ensures that these individuals never again pose a threat to public safety, but without involving the myriad problems associated with capital punishment. I have long advocated for the abolition of the federal death penalty and commend President Biden for this act of justice and mercy and for his leadership,” said Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin. D-Ill., in a statement.
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Rep. Jayapal applauded the Biden administration. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In her own statement, Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said, “This is a historic day in America. We thank President Biden for this extraordinary act to save the 37 people who face the death penalty, a discriminatory act and fundamentally inhumane punishment. This is a powerful use of executive action to save lives and deliver justice.”
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He had earlier encouraged the administration to take such measures.
Biden’s death penalty commutations came after he already commuted roughly 1,500 people’s sentences in the largest single-day clemency act.
