(21 Jan 2025)
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Washington – 21 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator Ron Johnson, (R) Wisconsin:
“I think they were absolutely justified again. I don’t know all the cases. I certainly don’t want to pardon violent actors, but there was a real miscarriage of justice here. for victims, for violent offenders.”
(Reporter: Are you comfortable with that?)
“I haven’t seen the details, but I think a lot of those pardons were definitely well deserved.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator Thom Tillis, (R) North Carolina:
“I’m about to file two bills that will increase the penalties up to and including the death penalty for the murder of a police officer. And increasing the penalties and creating federal crimes for assaulting a police officer. That should give you everything you need to know about my position. Look, it, it was surprising to me that it was a blanket pardon. Now I’m going through the details.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator Thom Tillis, (R) North Carolina:
“What I should have mentioned before is you should pay attention, this probably won’t get reported, but I hope it does. And that’s the abuse of, the of the abuse of the pardon process by Joe Biden. I hope anybody who’s going to be critical of what occurred last night is also very critical of a massive overreach by President Biden. Prospective pardons, kind of like a get out of jail free card makes no sense to me either. So to answer your question, maybe we need to go back and look at the contours of the authority that future presidents have around pardoning.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator John Cornyn, (R) Texas:
“It sends the message that the president has the authority to issue pardons, whether it’s President Biden or President Trump, and Congress has no role.”
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STORYLINE:
On Monday, former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump unveiled a slew of presidential pardons.
Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House, while Donald Trump pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021.
On Tuesday, some Republican senators appeared conflicted about both sets of pardons.
“I hope anybody who’s going to be critical of what occurred last night is also very critical of a massive overreach by President Biden. Prospective pardons, kind of like a get out of jail free card makes no sense to me either. So to answer your question, maybe we need to go back and look at the contours of the authority that future presidents have around pardoning,” Senator Thom Tillis, (R) North Carolina said.
Senator Ron Johnson, (R) Wisconsin said, said Trump’s pardons were justified.
“I think they were absolutely justified again. I don’t know all the cases. I certainly don’t want to pardon violent actors, but there was a real miscarriage of justice here. for victims, for violent offenders,” Johnson said.
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