President Joe Biden previously had pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who had been convicted in a criminal gun case and pleaded guilty in a tax case.

No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.

Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
      25·
      9 months ago

      They don’t, but that’s not the point. Trump has suggested that various members of Biden’s family and inner circle I have done wrong and should be prosecuted. This is preemptively heading that off, ensuring that there cannot be a witch hunt.

    • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      251·
      9 months ago

      In the US it’s just basically untested, but it probably wouldn’t hold up but you can still write it on the paper 🤷‍♂️

      • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
        15·
        9 months ago

        With the Trump appointed supreme court it definitely won’t hold up, but maybe it could delay whatever meaningless charges he can come up with long enough for another election. If we’re lucky enough to have another real election that is at least.

      • Stern@lemmy.world
        7·
        9 months ago

        https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/71/333/

        The power of pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. The power is not subject to legislative control.

        I don’t think Trump would try it since he probably wants to use it on himself as well, but then again SCOTUS could be on some “rules for me, but not for thee” shit with it and it wouldn’t matter anyhow.

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        So basically it just sets the statue of limitations of everything to 0?

        So if we find out one of these people raped someone at some point before this pardon, there will be no justice?

      • SSTF@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Or more recently (and I suppose in the same wheelhouse as the topic at hand), Hunter Biden’s pardon was a blanket pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed on January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. It wasn’t just for what he had specifically been charged with at the time.