Thursday, December 05, 2024
PMT: More words on Hunter Biden
Yesterday, Rachel Barlow and I had a piece in The Nation about the Hunter Biden pardon and what comes next. You can read it here. Here is how it begins:
President Joe Biden’s December 1 pardon to his son Hunter was singular and startling. It stands alone among modern clemency grants because of the family relationship involved, the breadth of the grant, the broken promise not to do it, and the isolation of the grant from other clemency decisions. Much as Bill Clinton is still remembered for his pardon of Marc Rich, decades from now Joe Biden will carry the unfortunate weight of this single moment. He can mitigate the damage, though, by using his remaining weeks to employ the pardon power in a principled and assertive way to make thousands of grants in a wave of deserved forgiveness.
I hope you will read the whole thing!
