No One Has Been Granted Clemency During Biden Administration

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden pledged ambitious criminal justice reforms as a candidate, but has taken few steps during his time in office to deliver them. And the FBI says diversifying its special agent ranks is a top priority, but its history of abuses during the civil rights era is a major recruitment hurdle.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and justice correspondent Ryan Lucas.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Francis with my four-year-old rescue dog named Goose.
0:05.6	Goose and I are currently hiking the historic Bayfield Road Trail in Maple, Wisconsin.
0:11.3	This episode was recorded at 2.02 pm Eastern Time on Thursday, December 9th.
0:18.0	By the time you hear this, things may have changed, but hopefully Goose and I will still be soaking up what is an absolutely gorgeous fall season here in the Lake Superior region.
0:28.2	Okay, here's the show.
0:30.5	Oh Ryan, it's like it was made for you and me, Wisconsin dog timestamp.
0:38.9	Rest you dogs, Wisconsin, all that way up north.
0:42.8	Super cold up there.
0:44.0	Beautiful, beautiful.
0:45.3	Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:48.1	I must my call it. I cover the White House.
0:50.2	I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department.
0:52.1	And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent.
0:55.0	And today on the show, we look at the stalled efforts to overhaul the criminal justice system.
1:00.4	People working for these changes have been frustrated with the Biden administration's progress, or frankly, lack of progress.
1:07.0	And Carrie, you have got some reporting on this.
1:09.2	You've been interviewing people about this very issue.
1:11.6	So talk to us about what you have been hearing.
1:14.2	Yeah, first of all, if you heard a little bit of a noise that was my rescue dog, Frankie.
1:19.0	Oh, thank you so much.
1:20.1	I apologize. She heard me say the word DOG and things went south.
1:23.7	OK, so with respect to the Biden administration and overhauling the criminal justice system,
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