Biden's pardons are terrible in and of themselves, but taken together they illustrate a more important point. Pardons are for resolving individual cases one at a time; pardons aren't for policymaking.
Some 4,000 juvenile convictions had to be thrown out after the kickbacks were discovered. And Biden gave clemency to Rita Crundwell, a corrupt local official in Illinois who carried out the largest municipal fraud scheme in US history.
Pardons, properly understood, are not supposed to be an instrument of policymaking. Biden should have learned the lesson from his old boss, Barack Obama, who issued more than 1,700 pardons.
These pardons and commutations are, of course, indefensible - which is why Biden and his team are not attempting to defend them.
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