Kim Kardashian called on President Joe Biden to grant more clemency after he commuted the sentences of around 1,500 people, breaking the record for the largest single-day clemency action in the country’s modern history.
“Thousands of people in our federal prisons deserve a second chance. President Biden could grant them clemency or pardon with the stroke of a pen,” Kardashian wrote in a post shared to her Instagram Story Thursday afternoon.
Earlier in the day, the White House announced that Biden was commuting the sentences of about 1,500 people released from prison during the pandemic to home confinement and pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Biden’s clemency request surpassed the previous record set by former President Barack Obama, who issued 330 clemency requests in his final days in office.
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Newsweek asked Kardashian for comment. Her team did not respond to repeated requests for comment on Biden’s announcement Thursday.
Kardashian has become a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform in recent years. Donald Trump in 2018 commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense, after meeting with Kardashian about Johnson’s case.
In April, Kardashian attended a roundtable on criminal justice reform with Vice President Kamala Harris and four people who were granted clemency by Biden’s administration.
This is a developing story and will be updated with more information.
