Biden commutes kids-for-cash judge's sentence

This event establishes Joe Biden as perhaps one of the 5 worst Presidents in the country's history.

Five years ago, just before he left office after being voted out, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin - a sociopath - pardoned several notorious criminals. Now Biden is doing almost the same thing.

Biden has now commuted the sentence of former Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Judge Michael T. Conahan. Along with former Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., Conahan was convicted in a scheme in which the judges sent juvenile defendants to a for-profit prison in exchange for over $2 million in kickbacks. Over 2,500 children had their lives destroyed by this scheme, and some committed suicide.

Conahan was sentenced to 17½ years in prison for racketeering. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Conahan applied for "compassionate release" because he was afraid of catching COVID in prison. He had locked down 2,500 kids, and everyone else was locked down during COVID, yet he demanded early release. He was allowed to continue his sentence at home in Florida, but that was before Biden commuted his sentence.

It gets worse. The Biden regime's excuse for commuting Conahan's punishment was that he was sentenced under "outdated laws."

Huh??? Biden thinks laws against a kickback scheme that resulted in the deaths of many children are "outdated"??? I know our society has really gone backwards in its attitudes toward child abuse over the past few years, but I didn't think it was that bad. We've essentially witnessed the de facto legalization of child abuse before our very eyes. In brief, fighting child abuse is "outdated", according to the President.

This is such an obvious abuse of power by the President that we almost wish we didn't look at our news feed today.

When the kickbacks involving Ciavarella and Conahan were first discovered, a class action suit was filed against the judges by hundreds of families. Amy Goodman wrote that the actions of the judges constituted "an unprecedented case of judicial corruption." Sadly, we weren't too surprised by this scandal, after seeing firsthand how abusive confinement facilities boast about having judges on their side. The bigger surprise is Biden mollycoddling the corrupt judges.