President Joe Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses in what the White House called the largest single-day act of clemency in US history.

In the wake of his decision to grant clemency to his son for federal gun and tax charges, Jeffries and others have put pressure on Biden to issue more pardons. His comments Friday come as Republicans ...

President Biden’s surprise pardon ... Jeffries cited no specific names. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a longtime advocate for criminal justice reform, has also renewed her calls for more ...

As President Joe Biden weighs whether to issue preemptive pardons to people President ... for nonviolent offenses," Jeffries said in a statement. "This moment calls for liberty and justice for ...

President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions ...

However, that claim is false — Biden has not pardoned more people than any other U.S. president. The language of the presidential pardon is key to understanding why this is the case.