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1 of 2 | Vice President Kamala Harris attends an arena pinch Kim Kardashian connected Second Chance Month successful nan Roosevelt Room of nan White House successful Washington DC connected Thursday, April 25, 2024. Photo by Michael Reynolds/UPI | License Photo
April 25 (UPI) -- Reality TV prima turned businesswoman Kim Kardashian joined Vice President Kamala Harris astatine nan White House connected Thursday to talk strategies for criminal justness betterment and congratulate precocious pardoned people.
Kardashian, who is celebrated mostly for her family name, has utilized her personage level to tie attraction to individual prisoners she believes person been wrongly convicted and talked pinch Harris astir President Joe Biden's usage of pardons and clemency.
Kardashian was astatine nan White House during nan aforesaid week that Biden pardoned 11 group convicted of nonviolent supplier charges and commuted nan sentences of 5 others.
"I americium ace honored to beryllium present to perceive your stories coming and I deliberation it's truthful important to stock them and amplify them because location are truthful galore group that are successful your position that could usage nan inspiration," Kardashian said to nan pardoned individuals attending nan event: Beverly Holcy, Jason Hernandez, Bobby Darrell Lowery and Jesse Mosley. "I'm conscionable present to thief and dispersed nan word."
Harris said during nan arena that she is simply a "big believer successful 2nd changes," and that nan management will proceed to activity to region barriers for group who person paid their indebtedness to nine but still look obstacles to success. She added that nan Biden management will proceed to usage pardons and commutations arsenic a intends to reside nan issue.
"For example, connected marijuana, we person pardoned each group for national convictions for elemental marijuana possession," Harris said. "Many of you person heard maine opportunity I conscionable don't deliberation group should person to spell to jailhouse for smoking weed. And these pardons person been issued arsenic an hold of that approach."
Harris besides mentioned during her remarks nan finalization of a Small Business Administration norm she announced successful January. It removes almost each indebtedness eligibility restrictions based connected someone's criminal record.
Kardashian has visited nan White House during some Democratic and Republican administrations. In 2020, she met pinch erstwhile president Donald Trump and thanked him for commuting nan sentences of 3 women and discussing alteration she said nan U.S. justness strategy "desperately needs."
"It was really successful this very room that I was successful years ago, my first clemency meeting, that really inspired maine to return a journey," Kardashian said Thursday. "I didn't cognize a full lot, and I was inspired to spell to rule schoolhouse and really further my acquisition to spot what I tin do to help."
Kardashian besides brought circumstantial cases to Trump of group she believed were wrongly convicted.
This week's gathering came arsenic nan Biden management marks "Second Chance Month," during which Biden has promised to "recommit to building a criminal justness strategy that lives up to those ideals truthful that group returning to their communities from jailhouse aliases situation person a adjacent changeable astatine nan American Dream," according to the White House proclamation.
