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But he wasn't considered as an individual; he was just included in a batch of 1,500 people who met the advisory committee's criteria (they were already on home detention due to covid; crimes weren't violent or drug-related, not likely to re-offend, etc.). But the article seems to be implying that Biden knowingly granted clemency to a particular person who doesn't deserve it, much to the understandable dismay of the judge's victims - but that's not what happened at all. Arguably, blanket pardons and/or clemency aren't such a great idea because some undeserving person could benefit, but that's what this was, like it or not. Did Democracy Not expect Biden to review each of the 1,500 people on the list, or did they just go looking for another excuse to crap on another Democrat?