https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/12\/04\/biden-presidential-pardon-controversy-00192404<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“as a historical matter, the critics are dead wrong when they insist that the Hunter Biden pardon is a unique and uniquely polarizing use of the pardon power. Presidents since George Washington have wielded that power, often in extraordinarily controversial ways.
\nThe question isn\u2019t whether Biden\u2019s action was somehow singular in its offensiveness \u2014 history shows us that it is not. It\u2019s whether the pardon power, a constitutional holdover from the divine rights of kings, is a power worth removing altogether from the Constitution.<\/p>\n
Here are four earlier examples of controversial uses of the pardon power, from Washington to Bill Clinton. Together, they make Biden\u2019s pardon look almost quaint.”<\/p>\n
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