President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, may have given President-elect Donald Trump fresh precedent to expand his pardoning powers in his upcoming administration, according to legal experts.

“I do think this gives Trump greater leeway to exercise the pardon power in ways that he might otherwise have hesitated because it gives Trump more political cover to do what he wants,” Samuel Morison, an attorney who worked in the Office of the Pardon Attorney for 13 years, told Politico. “How can you say that the president can’t grant pardons to correct something that he believes is an injustice? Biden just did it.”

The president’s pardon order clears his son of consequences of any federal laws broken between Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 2, 2024, including his guilty plea earlier this year to federal tax charges and his conviction on gun charges.

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