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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Biden pardoning the judge that ran the cash for kids program has completely tarnished his legacy. Thst man should never have ever been free after all the thousands of lives he ruined.

He can fuck right off.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/politics/joe-biden-commutations-pennsylvania-illinois/index.html

Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange for wrongly sending juveniles to their facilities. The case was widely considered to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history.