President Biden issued a pardon for his son Hunter Biden Sunday evening in a major reversal after Joe Biden repeatedly vowed not to use his executive authority to intervene in his son’s criminal cases. Hunter Biden was set to be sentenced on December 12 for his federal gun conviction and on December 16 for his California tax evasion case. President Biden said he made the decision because the charges against Hunter were politically motivated and “instigated” by his rivals, saying his son was “singled out only because he is my son.”

President Biden is now facing renewed pressure to commute the sentences of death row prisoners and to pardon or grant clemency to political prisoners like Indigenous leader Leonard Peltier and the whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Meanwhile, the group the Debt Collective posted, “Pardon our student loans next.”