When President Joe Biden signed a sweeping pardon for his son this month, he sidestepped the Justice Department’s rigorous vetting process for people seeking clemency.
Meanwhile, the president kept waiting hundreds of clemency applicants whom the department had recommended to the White House months and even years earlier, according to multiple sources familiar with the clemency process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to divulge sensitive information.
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