[marktwain]

He could be pardoned anyway - trial doesn’t have to be concluded. Doesn’t even have to be formally charged to get a pardon.

Correct.

[j.havenfarm]

Agreed, but if they allow it to go to sentencing, then Biden could commute sentence, on the off chance they want to maintain some semblance of attention to justice and/ or thwart the (true) narrative that only republicans get targeted for serious cases