No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.

Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.

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    13 hours ago

    It’s not about whether or not he honors them. The effectiveness of those preemptive pardons can be adjudicated by the SC. But there’s a couple of considerations on that front:

    • will the SC concur that blanket pardons in advance of any charges are actually allowed?
    • will Trump want to challenge that, since it would potentially kneecap any effort he makes later in that regard?

    But also:

    • will Trump or the SC give a shit about the blatant hypocrisy and double standard if they do strike down this sort of thing from Biden, but let Trump do it? (IMO probably not)
    • if the SC gives a shit but Trump doesn’t, what’s to stop him using leverage and/or stochastic terrorism to help accelerate the conclusion of one or more justices’ tenure so he can slip someone more agreeable in?
    • will the judicial branch even exist in an independent fashion in 4 years?

    TL;DR: who fuckin knows at this point