The american vice president, Kamala Harris hosted the reality television star Kim Kardashian at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform.
The discussion focused on the puns that have been issued by the american president, Joe Biden, to people who have been convicted of non violent drug offences.
US Vice President Kamala Harris hosts Kim Kardashian
Barden granted clemency to 16 people, pardoning eleven of them and commuting the sentences of the other five. Four of the recipients also joined this event. So I’m a big believer in the power of redemption. It’s an age old concept that transcends religions, but is fundamentally about an understanding that everybody makes mistakes, and for some, that might rise to the level of being a crime.
But is it not the sign of a civil society that we allow people a way to earn their way back and give them the support and the resources they need to do that? Acknowledging Kardashians advocacy efforts, Harris thanked the celebrity for using her platform to address the importance of second chances. During the meeting, Kardashian and Harris discussed the SCIMS founders lobbying Donald Trump to grant clemency to incarcerated men and women.
It was actually this very room that I was in years ago, my first clemency meeting, that really inspired me to take a journey of really helping to figure out how I can be helpful and how I can tell the amazing stories that I would hear from the success stories from individuals like yourself.
And I didn’t know a whole lot, and I was inspired to go to law school and really further my education to see what I can do to help. In 2018, Kim Kardashian made headlines when she finally successfully campaigned for Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, an Alabama woman who was given a life sentence in the 1990s for a first time nonviolent drug offence.
She later did the same thing for several inmates who were considered to be wrongly convicted across the country. Kamala Harris
