A week ago, President Biden pardoned two turkeys named Peach and Blossom as part of a somewhat silly White House tradition.
It turns out he was just getting started. President Biden spent time at home with his son over Thanksgiving and decided to go all out, not just pardoning Hunter for his convictions on the books but issuing a broad pardon that covers 11 years in all. Politico spoke to an expert on pardons who said she hadn’t seen anything like this since President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon 50 years ago.
Experts on pardons said they could think of only one other person who has received a presidential pardon so sweeping in generations: Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974.
“I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses…
