President Donald Trump’s newly tabbed pardon attorney said on May 13 that his work will include scrutinizing pardons that former President Joe Biden issued just before leaving office in January.
“I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny. And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that’s used correctly,” Ed Martin, the pardon attorney, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington.
“So I do think we’re going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did and if they’re, I don’t know, but null and void, I’m not sure how that operates,” he added.
Biden’s pardons, issued in his final hours in office, went to multiple individuals, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)
The pardons were for conduct for which the individuals had not been charged.
It’s out of our hands. We can write to our federal representatives** for justice until we’re blue in the face, but the only way those thieves and liars can be rooted out is from the top.
**What chance do we have when we’re “represented” by the likes of Van Hollen and Raskin? They’re part of the problem!
How can a presidential pardon be valid for people not charged with crimes? If the president knew of the crimes but didn’t report or pursue them with law enforcement or the courts, then issued a pardon, isn’t he complicit?