Kim Kardashian urges Biden to ‘make clemency a significant part of his legacy’

Kim Kardashian is making an appeal to President Biden to “make clemency a significant part of his legacy” before he leaves office next year. 

The reality TV star, a criminal justice reform advocate, posted on the social platform X on Monday that last week she visited the Justice Department in Washington and met with U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer.

“We talked about some of the many men and women who have taken accountability for their crimes, worked hard to turn their lives around, and are ready to come home from our prisons and be with their families,” Kardashian, 43, wrote.

A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed the Kardashian meeting in a statement to ITK, saying that Oyer “regularly meets with stakeholders and clemency advocates as part of the office’s public engagement work.”

“Starting this week, I will be highlighting some of their important cases on my stories,” Kardashian said in a message to her more than 75 million followers. 

“I hope President Biden takes the opportunity to make clemency a significant part of his legacy before he leaves office,” she said.

In 2018, then-President Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a Black woman who had received life imprisonment for a nonviolent drug offense. Kardashian had pressed Trump to pardon Johnson, meeting with him in the Oval Office. 

Kardashian joined Vice President Harris in April for a roundtable focused on criminal justice reform. In October 2022, Biden announced pardons for thousands of people who had been convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law. 

Updated at 6:11 p.m.