I say it in question form, because as I’m writing this, the outgoing president still has about 3 hours of power left with which to wreak havoc. When Winter Warlock accepted the toy choo-choo train from Kris Kringle in the Rankin/Bass claymation movie Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town back in the 60s, his heart melted, along with his powers. All he had left were a few magic beans that could make reindeer fly. That’s it. Joe Biden still has the nuclear codes and someone to write up presidential pardons.
Typically, but not in every circumstance, a presidential pardon covers the sins that the recipient has committed against the people of the United States. In Biden’s case in the wee hours of his last morning as commander-in-chief, he preemptively decided to pardon a handful of some of the more controversial figures in recent American history.
With the stroke of a pen in the shaky…
