Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past.'
For weeks, there's been speculation and White House debate about whether President Joe Biden would issue pre-emptive pardons for those who might be targeted by Donald Trump. As Inauguration Day approached, it appeared that the retiring Democrat had decided not to pursue such an approach. Those appearances were wrong. With just hours remaining in his term, Biden issued pardons for: Retired Gen. Mark MilleyDr. Anthony FauciMembers and staffers of the bipartisan Jan.
' The possibility of these pardons generated no shortage of public post-election discussion, and the idea has long been straightforward: Biden, proponents have argued, has a responsibility to shield innocent people from potential — by some measures, likely — prosecutorial abuses before they happen.
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