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After the White House announced President Joe Biden’s decision to recast sentences of nearly all inmates on death row, Republicans criticized him for being “soft on crime.”
“Joe Biden is confuseda rotten and demented failure. The White House has become a memory care facility as Biden is run around by his corrupt children and his Marxist staffers. That’s why 37 depraved murderers have pardons,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote on X.
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, US on December 10, 2024. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/photo)
Cotton is the future president of both GOP Senate Conference and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital in a statement: “Unfortunately, this is not surprising given that the Biden-Harris administration has allowed murderers and rapists to come across our southern border for the past four Joe Biden’s soft-crime record is exactly why voters unseated him and re-elected President Trump on November 5.”
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Senator Tom Cotton has slammed Kamala Harris for her refusal to come clean about changing her political positions from 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Violent murderers should not have their sentences commuted,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on X. “We must end the soft-on-crime policy.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called the move “a slap in the face to the families who have suffered immeasurably at the hands of these animals.”
While Republicans made their displeasure known, Biden’s announcement was celebrated by some Democrats.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (C), flanked by House Majority Representative Tom Emmer (L) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“Today’s decision by the President provides accountability with life in prison without the possibility of parole and ensures that these individuals never again pose a threat to public safety, but without implying the myriad problems associated with the death penalty. I have long advocated for the abolition of the federal death penalty and commend President Biden for this act of justice and mercy and for his leadership,” Senate Speaker Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in a statement.
Tail. Jayapal welcomed the Biden administration. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In her own statement, Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said: “This is a historic day in America. We thank President Biden for this extraordinary act in sparing 37 people facing the death penalty, discriminatory and fundamentally inhumane punishment. the strong use of executive action to save lives and achieve justice.”
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Previously, she encouraged the administration to take such measures.
Biden’s commutation of the death penalty came after he had already commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people in the largest one-day clemency act.
