I agree with Andy that the Supreme Court’s formulation about acceptance of pardons being admissions of guilt was an error. I’d add that it would be decidedly odd to include a pardon power in the first place if it can’t be used to correct miscarriages of justice.

Update, 4:45pm: Just to forestall confusion: I’m not saying that Biden’s pardons prevented miscarriages of justice. (And of course Andy didn’t say that either.) Biden abused the pardon power, again. In condemning his action, though, we shouldn’t claim that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt–any more than we should say that about any of the people who accepted pardons from Trump during his last term in office.