"This has to stop. Enough is enough."
"I have sat with parents who lost their children to gun violence."
"When I was 17 years old, I was raped. Weeks later, I found out I was pregnant. Without the protections afforded to me by Roe v. Wade, I would have been forced to birth a human being that I could not t..."
"Without the protections afforded to me by Roe v. Wade, I would not -- I would have been forced to birth a human being that I could not take care of. And the father would have been my rapist."
"Clemency became an extension of the privilege afforded to the rich and the powerful."
"I was absolutely proud to see two of those residents--two of those people were residents of St. Louis."
"During the previous Administration, the President largely used his clemency power for cronies, for family Members, political allies, and friends."
"I couldn't agree more, and I commend him for taking this necessary step."
"As policymakers, we must reject this unjust status quo and disrupt the cycle and legacy in this country of treating trauma with more trauma."
"The FIX Clemency Act makes clear that prosecutors and people who run prisons should not have outsized influence when it comes to evaluating clemency applicants."
"With more than 17,000 clemency applications pending for years before the DOJ, we must pass the FIX Clemency Act."