Biden's team are looking into additional pardons for others, including Liz Cheny, Adam Schiff and Anthony Fauci. This should go well!
https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...rdons-00192610
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The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel but include a range of other aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients. The president himself, who was intensely focused on his son’s pardon, has not been brought into the broader pardon discussions yet, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
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Also, Politico's head of news examines Biden's decision to pardon his son and what he thinks this means for the future of America's justice system.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...ardon-00192113
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President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter almost looks like a fiendish prank on Washington — a Sunday night ambush designed to embarrass and shock.
That was presumably not Biden’s aim. But however unintentionally, the pardon is a kind of sabotage.
It is a rich gift to those who want to blow up the justice system as we know it, and who claim the government is a self-dealing club for hypocritical elites. It is a promise-breaking act that subjects Biden’s allies to yet another humiliation in a year packed with Biden-inflicted injuries.
The decision comes at a moment when the capital is girding for an assault on federal law enforcement institutions led by President-elect Donald Trump and his appointees.
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“The reason we are here is because Trump and his Republican allies effectively — and successfully — pressured Joe Biden’s own Justice Department to prosecute his son,” Khardori wrote.
Yet when he came into office, Biden claimed he wanted to restore the Justice Department’s independence and took highly visible steps to place it outside his own control. It is why he appointed a sober former judge, Merrick Garland, as attorney general, rather than a legally accomplished Democratic politician like Deval Patrick or Doug Jones. It is why he left in place the U.S. attorney in Delaware, David Weiss, who was investigating Hunter Biden.
It is also why Biden and his aides told the American people, over and over and over, that a pardon for Hunter Biden was off the table.
These are steps Biden did not need to take if he did not want to let the justice system do its work.
Instead, countless hours of work and public dollars have gone toward securing indictments and verdicts that the president voided by fiat on a cold December evening.
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As I had mentioned earlier, I believe every father would do the same for their son if they could. I also believe this mass pardoning chicanery was taken to the extreme by Trump in 2020. But I also believe that America is in for some interesting times going forward due to Trump's actions and now Biden's, that will make this a new norm for all outgoing Presidents.