Over 2,490 autopenned commutations were granted on Jan. 17 in then-President Joe Biden's name — more in one day than any previous president granted over their entire presidency.

A statement attributed to Biden suggested that the clemency action was "an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time behind bars."

'Crime must be met with consequences, not weakness.'

Among the supposedly "deserving individuals" who received commutations — which an associate deputy attorney general indicated at the time were legally flawed — was Khyre Holbert, a thug who pled guilty in 2018 to multiple crimes, including trafficking crack

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