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On "Forbes Newsroom," Congressman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) slammed President Joe Biden’s decision to grant his son Hunter Biden a pardon.

While controversy over presidential pardons has a long history — from George Washington absolving instigators of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795 to Gerald Ford pardoning Richard M. Nixon after the Watergate scandal forced his resignation — few have used the constitutionally vested power to pardon family members.