With President Biden’s pardon, his son escaped a legal reckoning not just for crimes for which he was found guilty, but likely for any crimes he might have committed in the past 11 years. That sweeping amnesty is raising awkward historical comparisons and sharp questions about the use of presidential clemency. It also has inflamed a debate about who deserves mercy and for what, while underscoring the Biden family’s concerns about Hunter Biden’s vulnerability to prosecution related to his foreign business activities. Experts searched for an apt comparison, finding some similarities to the pardons granted by Gerald R. Ford to Richard M. Nixon; Andrew Johnson to former Confederate soldiers; George H.W. “It is extraordinarily hazardous to use the pardon power in a case where the person is an intimate of the president,” said Aziz Z. Huq, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

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Persons: Biden’s, underscoring, Biden, Hunter, Gerald R, Ford, Richard M, Nixon, Andrew Johnson, George H.W, Bill Clinton, Donald J, Trump, ”, Aziz Z, Huq Organizations: University of Chicago Law School Locations: Bush, Iran