President Joe Biden irked his left flank by moving slowly to alter Donald Trump’s refugee cap, and he appears poised to again draw fire from liberals as he avoids issuing a federal moratorium on capital punishment.
Biden’s dithering before raising Trump’s record-low refugee cap, a campaign promise, left the president vulnerable to criticism from other Democrats. And the delay in taking action regarding federal executions, another campaign pledge, opens him up to similar scrutiny from activists who helped him win the White House last year.
Biden’s inaction is “frustrating” liberal Democrats, according to Robert Dunham, the Death Penalty Information Center’s executive director.
While DPIC is neutral and nonpartisan, Dunham told the Washington Examiner that Biden’s problem is exacerbated by his party’s slim majorities in Congress. That is because there are “practical consequences” to exercising presidential powers, he explained.
“One of the things that I think that he must have learned from his time as vice president was, if you have an informal policy of doing nothing so that you don’t issue any execution notices and you don’t carry out any executions, all that accomplishes is kicking the can down the road so that there are more people on death row for the next president to execute,” Dunham said.
Read more at Washington Examiner.
{Matzav.com}
