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Even Members of the Biden administration raised questions over the pardons the administration issued.
Senior Justice Department ethics attorney Bradley Weinsheimer wrote a memo questioning the pardons after Biden issued 2,490 commutations.
Weinsheimer said, “I have no idea if the president was aware of these backgrounds when making clemency decisions.”
High-ranking Biden administration officials repeatedly questioned and criticized how the president’s team decided on controversial pardons and allowed the frequent use of an autopen to sign measures late in his term, internal emails obtained by Axios show.
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Several senior Justice Department officials raised objections about the clemency process with the White House Counsel’s office, which was led by Ed Siskel. He helped steer the clemency process in the administration’s final months and did not respond to a request for comment.
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The next day, senior Justice Department ethis attorney Bradley Weinsheimer penned a scathing memo stating that calling the clemency recipients nonviolent was “untrue, or at least misleading.”
Weinsheimer continued: “Unfortunately and despite repeated requests and warnings, we were not afforded a reasonable opportunity to vet and provide input on those you were considering.”
…Weinsheimer said the DOJ had marked the man as “problematic,” but Biden commuted his sentence anyway. “I have no idea if the president was aware of these backgrounds when making clemency decisions,” Weinsheimer wrote.
Biden White House staff secretary Stef Feldman asked for more information and confirmation that Biden did in fact sign off on the pardons.
She asked in an email, “When did we get [Biden’s] approval of this?”
Senior Biden White House officials also pushed back internally on requests to use the autopen, according to Axios, which cited emails it obtained.
It said Biden White House staff secretary Stef Feldman repeatedly asked for more information and confirmation of Biden’s intentions with the autopen.
“When did we get [Biden’s] approval of this?” Feldman reportedly wrote in a Jan. 7 email regarding the use of autopen to sign an executive order.
“I’m going to need email from… original chain confirming [Biden] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready,” she was cited by Axios as writing in a Jan. 16 email about using autopen to commute cases linked to crack-cocaine sentences.