Former president Joe Biden’s decision to issue preemptive pardons to allies and family in his final hours in office Monday sets new precedent for expanding executive authority, which may prove difficult to reverse.
Breaking a promise he made before taking office, Biden issued preemptive pardons to his family members, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and members of the Jan. 6 committee, before Trump was sworn-in Monday morning.
The decision sets “a perilous precedent that could be exploited by future administrations to protect political allies from the consequences of their actions,” former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“These sweeping and vague pardons represent an unprecedented dangerous expansion of executive authority that threatens the very foundations of our constitutional republic’s requirement for law and…
