Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.

It was just moments before Joe Biden’s presidential term ended when he announced pardons for his siblings and their spouses

The extraordinary wave of pardons Monday — from Joe Biden as he left the White House and from Donald Trump as soon as he returned to it — demonstrate the potency of the Constitution’s pardon power, but also expose its perils,

Biden Monday issued several preemptive pardons, some to family members. Following the transition of power, Trump wielded his own clemency power.