Literally on his way out of the White House door, Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, and anybody/everybody on the J6 Committee, not as an admission of wrongdoing on their part, but to throw an aegis over these people so Donald Trump could not prosecute them.
This isn’t exactly what pardons are for, but in some cases, it’s how pardons have been used. Preliminary pardons are somewhat rare but not unheard of, and it seems Joe Biden has decided to throw his mantle of protection far and wide.
To establish a benchmark, here is what the Constitution says about Presidential Pardons:
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal…
