What will Biden’s lame-duck legacy be? 

One of the benefits of President Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign is that he no longer needs to worry about the electoral consequences of his presidential decisions. This fact should free him to use his executive power to accomplish things he might have been reluctant to do lest he lose votes. 

One of the things he should do to take advantage of what the Daily Beast once called “The Liberation of the Lame Duck” is ramp up his use of clemency power and focus it on hard cases and unpopular causes.