2024-12-03
22 分钟This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times Opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Jillian Weinberger and I'm a producer for New York Times Opinion.
President Biden has about six weeks left in office,
and with Republicans set to control both houses of Congress and the presidency next year,
Biden's final acts may be more important than ever.
So I asked five Opinion what should Biden's priority be over these last few weeks?
Here's what they said.
My name is Michelle Goldberg and I'm an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
Lame Duck Presidents are limited in what they're able to do,
but one power they do have is the power of the pardon, as well as the power to commute criminal sentences.
And typically they use this to pardon individuals, but you can also use it to pardon whole classes of people.
And that's something that I hope that Joe Biden will consider.
Biden should pardon everyone who could be prosecuted under the Comstock act by the Trump administration.
The Comstock act is an 1873 anti vice law that, among other things,
banned the mailing of contraceptives and tools used to perform abortion.
And for decades now, the Comstock act was considered a dead letter, but it was never fully repealed.
When V.
Wade was overturned, you started to see conservatives agitating for its enforcement,