Biden Commutes Sentence of Judge Who Took Kickbacks for Sending Kids to For-Profit Juvenile Detention

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

Capitalism hasn't spent decades, and a depressingly small ampunt of money, capturing the political class, to improve the lives of the working class.

This is the correct reaction, for those of us playing at home

His entire career has been turd sausage.

His legacy is electing Trump, so not much else to fuck up

It's not like his sausage didn't have a few segregationist and war criminal turds in it already

Good point. Take your choice of alternate sources:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Biden+Commutes+Sentence+of+Judge+Who+Took+Kickbacks+for+Sending+Kids+to+For-Profit+Juvenile+Detention

There are hundreds of other sources with the exact same story.The issue isn't the source it's that it points Biden as being the POS he's always been

And you'd still vote for him in any case. Why the outrage

Honestly not that big a deal.

I bet it was to the kids he unjustly imprisoned and their families.

Our incarceration goals should be to reintegrate people into society not just to put unsavory people in time out.

Funny how that goal is only met for rich connected scumbags.

I think the reason there is pushback is because it's clear the justice system does a lot of protecting its own when the opposite should be the norm.

If you're a judge and you harm the public for personal benefit, you have harmed far more than a normal citizen is able to extend their harm. Further, you were put in a position to uphold the public trust and the law and you broke both.

In such a case, the punishment should unfortunately be much more extreme and the task re-integration into society should be much more rigorous, but because he was a judge they're like "skip all that, just pardon him." I think this guy needs a lot more re-integration than your standard violent offender because your standard violent offender wasn't a thoughtful calculating asshole. Violence is often committed without thought and with emotion. What this judge did was premeditated, thought out, executed, and flat out didn't care about the consequences to the individuals he harmed. He is, in many eyes, a much bigger danger to society because of how smart and calculating he is, and how he knows how to twist the law to his own favor. His knowledge of the law may literally give him a leg up in defending himself in court and in the eyes of the public. All this should be being considered before freeing him back to inflict more pain on society, as such men are wont to do, like Steve Bannon.

People are tired of seeing two different justice systems applied unevenly and then being told to swallow it and that it's not a big deal. Especially when white collar criminals regularly re-enter society to re-offend and take years to be brought to justice... again.