President Joe Biden offered a preemptive pardon for former Rep. Liz Cheney, along with staff and police witnesses who testified at the Congressional Jan. 6 committee, on the last day of his presidency on Jan. 20, 2025.
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President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Gen. Mark A. Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on his final day as president on Jan. 20, 2025.
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President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Biden, on his final day as president on Jan. 20, 2025.
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President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Cali on his final day as president on Jan. 20, 2025.
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Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the Jan. 6 committee, on Jan. 20, 2025.
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Joe Biden pardoned immigration advocate Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, who was convicted of a non-violent offense in 2001, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.
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President Joe Biden pardoned his brother, James Biden and other relatives on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for unspecified crimes. The president said he pardoned his brother and other relatives − James’s wife Sara Jones Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John Owens, and another brother, Francis Biden − because of concerns about “baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” he said in a statement.
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Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, on Jan. 19, 2025. Garvey was a civil rights leader convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927.
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