Did he, or anyone, even vet whose sentences were be commuted?
The move highlights the Biden-Harris administration’s record of advancing women’s rights and strengthening the labor movement while also commemorating Perkins’s achievements, including the establishment of pensions, unemployment, and workers’ compensation, the minimum wage and overtime pay, the 40-hour workweek, and child labor laws.
Perkins is also credited with helping to lay the blueprint for legislation like the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the National Labor Relations Act.
Hmmm… also from the Times…
Yeah, I felt like it was a hatchet job with the only possible credible comment coming from some unnamed person associated with Lloyd Austin. The only person who was on the record was Robert Hur, and he could tell me the sky is blue and I wouldn’t believe him.
He really should have done all 40. It’s not like he has to worry about reelection anymore.
Agreed. Either the death penalty is wrong or it’s not.
And now Trump gets to crow about killing them anyway.
He really is going out with a whimper. Or is he deliberately being vindictive?
It seems like the democratic party is ready and willing to sacrifice trans people for the sake of bipartisanship.
But NATIONAL DEFENSE is so important! We will spend $895 billion on defense in 2025, so it must be important. Right? /s
I don’t know… maybe. We can’t know, unless we can figure out a way to view alternate histories…
He’s doing his best to go out on a low note. WTF?
He really seems determined to squander every last ounce of goodwill he earned by gracefully stepping aside for Harris. The Democrats in general seem to be trying their hardest to justify the decision of all the people who couldn’t be bothered to go out and vote.
I think AI told him to do this.