This editorial comes courtesy of, in the Sun, the only newspaper of which we’re aware that sided with President Biden for pardoning his son. Such a possibility was anticipated by the Framers. In 74 Federalist Hamilton took New Yorkers through the logic of the pardon power going to one man. Even though, Hamilton warned, “the supposition of the connivance of the Chief Magistrate” — i.e., the President —  “ought not to be entirely excluded.”