On this pre-Christmas edition of The Editors, Rich, Jim, Noah, and Ramesh discuss Joe Biden’s recently announced pardons, particularly his commutation of death sentences for a number of death row inmates.

As Noah sees it, “Joe Biden’s pardons have been uniquely deleterious to his political brand. As you say, this has become something that we should have become accustomed to, at least since Bill Clinton’s final pardons, particularly Mark Rich, that were very controversial. But what we saw since Hunter Biden and after have been so self-serving, to a degree that even I haven’t seen very many Democrats even especially enthusiastic about them. The Hunter Biden pardon poisoned the well to an extent that I don’t think Joe Biden has ever been able [or] can recover from.”

What do Ramesh and Jim have to say? Listen in to find out.

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