'We want pardons to matter': Trump admin will 'take a hard look' at final grants of clemency issued by Biden

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Source: Law & Crime

May 13th, 2025, 6:45 pm


Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, says the Trump administration plans to investigate some pardons issued by Joe Biden — presumably an atypical suite of speculative clemency grants issued during his last days in office.

The controversial lawyer made the remarks during a farewell press conference in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, according to The Hill.

“I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny,” Martin said. “And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that’s used correctly. So I do think we’re going to take a hard look.”

Questions followed the presser, but Martin kept mum when asked if he would be looking into members of Congress who investigated the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, according to CBS News.

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Full headline: ‘We want pardons to matter’: Trump admin will ‘take a hard look’ at final grants of clemency issued by Biden, Ed Martin says

There is ZERO that they can "look into". "Pardons" are something Presidents can do for anyone they want, like their deranged leader has done releasing 1,600 insurrectionists. As noted at the end of the linked OP article -

The pardon power is largely understood as all but absolute. According to the U.S. Constitution, presidents “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the power itself is not reviewable.