President Trump briefly responds to Biden's final pardons as he signs his first executive actions of his new term after being sworn into office.

If there were ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s was it,” said Schatz, who serves as vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, in a statement. “President Biden did the right thing by showing this aging man in poor health mercy and allowing him to return home to spend whatever days he has remaining with his loved ones,

Watch as President Trump is sworn in to serve as the 47th president as he takes the presidential oath administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor’s preemptive pardons to the Jan.

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued a pardon to a prominent Kentucky Democrat convicted years ago on election finance violations.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned five members of his family, saying he wanted to prevent them from being targeted by "baseless and politically motivated investigations." Those pardoned are his two brothers James and Francis.

It was just moments before Joe Biden’s presidential term ended when he announced pardons for his siblings and their spouses

Biden announced the pardons in a last batch of clemency decisions just before Donald Trump took the oath of office.