Biden's Pardon (and Mine) [View all]

By Ross Anderson

Beg your pardon, but what’s with the liberal outrage over Joe Biden’s pardoning his son?

Finger wagging and head shaking were to be expected when Hunter Biden got his presidential pardon. But more than a week later, commentators from Fox News to The New York Times are still sputtering their indignation. Horrible precedent, we’re told. Imagine an American president behaving as if he were above the law.

I’m no lawyer, but maybe I have standing here, because I already have my presidential pardon. It’s collecting dust in a mislabeled manila folder stuffed in a file cabinet.
Mine came 58 years ago in an official envelope from the US Attorney, notifying me that, thanks to a blanket get-out-of-jail card from newly-elected President Jimmy Carter, I was being pardoned for resisting the draft.

Ihad lots of company: Hundreds of thousands of my fellow boomers had declined to serve during the Vietnam war. About 100,000 emigrated to Canada. Draft dodgers included political luminaries ranging from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush and Donald Trump. The difference is that they were able to wangle legal exemptions like Trump’s mysterious bone spurs (which never seemed to affect his golf swing.)

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