We have had prior presidents commute sentences of people who bombed the senate while the other party had a majority, so your nightmare scenario has basically already happened (but the shoe was on the other foot)
Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
by ghastmaster on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:30AM
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Federalist Paper #69 Specifically mentions this over 200 years ago.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed69.asp
> ...If a governor of New York, therefore, should be at the head of any such conspiracy, until the design had been ripened into actual hostility he could insure his accomplices and adherents an entire impunity...
Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
by the_reformation on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:24AM
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Yeah who knows what Biden could get up to.
Or worse, had someone murder his political opponent and then pardoned him? This sort of thing was unthinkable a few years ago, but no longer.