Trump pardons Bannon, dozens more
By Eli Stokols and Laura King
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WASHINGTON - With hours left in office, President Donald Trump early Wednesday pardoned several dozen individuals including former campaign and White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon, charged with federal fraud and money laundering charges in an alleged scheme to defraud supporters of the president’s top-priority border wall.
Bannon, who has pleaded not guilty, became the latest political ally to win such a show of legal largesse from the departing president as Trump granted clemency after midnight to some 143 individuals, including drug offenders serving life sentences, in what appears to be his final executive action.
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Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
Biden s inauguration came at a time of national tumult and uncertainty, a ceremony of resilience as the hallowed American democratic rite unfurled at a U.S. Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks ago. The chilly Washington morning was dotted with snow flurries, but the sun emerged just before Biden took the oath of office, the quadrennial ceremony persevering even though it was encircled by security forces evocative of a war zone and devoid of crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Harris will be sworn in by the countryâs first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor From CNNâs Maureen Chowdhury
Getty Images Kamala Harris will make history as the first woman, the first woman of color, the first Black person and the first South Asian to be Vice President. In addition, Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Justice in the courtâs history. Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court by former President Barack Obama in 2009. Like Harris, Sotomayor broke barriers throughout her career. She is the third female justice in US Supreme Court history, and she was the first Hispanic person to be appointed to the federal bench in New York.
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The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort
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By Judy Greenspan posted on January 20, 2021
Family members and prisoners’ rights advocates gather outside the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez to demand the release of a prisoner suffering from medical neglect during the COVID pandemic.
On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with less than a week to go of Donald Trump’s presidency, Dustin Biggs became the 13th federal prisoner to be executed under Trump’s administration. This killing spree that began in 2020 broke a hiatus of 17 years and included last Wednesday’s murder of the first woman prisoner in 68 years, Lisa Montgomery, a woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.