clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 on Nostr: The most favorable interpretation I can make of Biden's actions is that it's a ...

The most favorable interpretation I can make of Biden's actions is that it's a challenge to the Supreme Court: Pardon someone from sentencing for a crime not yet sentenced, not yet prosecuted, not yet investigated, not yet even defined, and dare SCOTUS to set some limit, any limit, on what the President can do.

But I don't believe that interpretation. He didn't say that's what he's doing. It's much simpler, and pettier.

I believe the motivation he provided: He is committing this abuse of power in anticipation of another's abuse of power.

But it's still an abuse of power, and an unprecedented one. Apparently, it's: When they go low, anticipate them and go low first.