Lord knows it's probably not smart to hold politicians accountable to their campaign promises. But President-elect Donald Trump is no typical politician and at least one of his campaign promises was both uniquely specific and uncontroversial enough to expect—or demand, really—follow-through.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance broke down the process of determining which Jan. 6 protesters will and won’t be pardoned.

As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, he has promised to swiftly pardon those with charges surrounding Jan. 6, 2021. The promise has stirred speculation of which cases will be dismissed and which will continue under Trump, which Vance clarified on Fox News Sunday.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday issued 33 pardons and three sentence commutations in his first act of clemency, nearly seven years after he took office.

“My only regret is we did not get to this day sooner,” Murphy said at a Trenton press conference, promising this was just the “first round” of legal relief, with more to come over his final year in office.

Murphy’s clemency action in New Jersey comes a week after President Joe Biden issued a record-setting 39 pardons and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people.

A claim that President Joe Biden pardoned two high-ranking Chinese spies and a relative of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official as part of a prisoner swap with China emerged online, sparking controversy over the president's latest round of pardons issued just days before leaving office next month.

On Dec. 12, President Joe Biden granted 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations, less than two weeks after granting his son Hunter “a full and unconditional pardon” for any crimes “he has committed or may have committed” from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024.

President Biden on Thursday commuted the sentences of 1,500 Americans who were placed in home confinement during the pandemic and pardoned another 39 people in what the White House said is the record for clemency in a single day.

Why it matters: Several members of Congress in both parties had pushed Biden to make broader use of his clemency powers in the wake of his highly unpopular decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden.

Until now, Biden had only issued 26 pardons, one of the lowest totals in recent memory.

U.S. President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of around 1,500 people who were released from prison to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the largest single-day clemency action in the country's modern history.

Biden also pardoned 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes in an effort to promote second chances and address the problems with the nation's criminal justice system.

President Biden said Thursday he is commuting the sentences of 1,500 people, the most ever in a single day. He is also pardoning 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes.

“America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Mr. Biden said.

Mr. Biden flexed his clemency powers weeks after he did an about-face and pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for tax and gun offenses despite saying for months he would not grant him relief.