Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Tuesday on CNN that former President Joe Biden was wrong to issue last-minute preemptive pardons just before his term ended. Minutes before President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday,

In the final minutes of his term, Biden pardoned Kinzinger and other members of the Select Committee on the January 6th Attack. “I am not nervous, I’m not scared, and I will not back down,” Kinzinger said.

Senator Adam Schiff spoke to FOX 11's Elex Michaelson about the pardons executed by President and Biden. Schiff said Biden pardoning his family members set a bad precedent

Without naming Trump or the incoming administration, Biden said in a statement that he believes in the rule of law but warned about the threat of partisan politics and pointed to possible retribution as the main concern behind his decision to grant the preemptive pardons.

A former Kentucky Democratic Party chairman convicted of illegal campaign contributions received one of the final pardons issued by former President Joe Biden, a measure slammed by Bluegrass State Republicans.

Jerry Lundergan, the former Kentucky Democratic Party chair, was convicted in 2018 for the contributions made through a corporation to his daughter, Alison Lundergan Grimes, in her 2014 challenge against Sen.