Joe Biden’s autopen pardon party

It is not reassuring to see that former president Joe Biden and his former aides told the New York Times that, as the paper put it, he “did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people” at the end of his term. Instead, according to the Times report, published roughly half a year after the pardons became official, Biden “signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence.”