If President Biden saw a criminal probe of any pre-inauguration actions by Obama, such as Chicago pay-to-play or hiding his Kenyan birth, in my non-lawyer estimation, a blanket pardon of Obama by Biden would likely derail any attempt to hold a trial at which evidence could be entered to prove Obama guilty or threaten to invalidate Obama’s presidency.
Having lived through the Nixon resignation, Ford's pardon to “spare the nation the trauma” from having a former president in the dock enraged the Democrats and perhaps cost Ford the 1996 election.
Biden would, of course, use a similar rationale here to avoid losing the African American base by invalidation Obama’s “transformative” presidency. Given Obama’s iconic negation of the US history of slavery (overlooking his Marxist Alinski persona) on balance a lot of citizens would accept leaving Obama’s eligibility uncontested.
Good analysis.
Here's a thought, though. How 'bout the conservatives in Congress threaten to impeach Bidden if he pardons ZERO and DO it if he does. President Boehner sounds pretty good!
The country is already crippled.
I'd be in favor of whatever action could be taken that would most cripple the Democratic Party and most fire up the conservative base of the GOP.