Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor and U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan during the Barack Obama administration, said the Constitution is "silent" regarding presidential self-pardoning, and whether it would be allowed has never been tested in the courts.

By granting immunity to his son Hunter, the president has contradicted his values and reinforced the right’s cynical theory of power.

There’s a chance we’ll look back on the Hunter pardon as a moral high point of Joe’s waning White House days. | Opinion