Just when you thought the stench of this presidency couldn’t get any stronger, the Big Guy shuffles forward and says, Hold my Imodium.

Joe Biden — on his way out the door and fresh from having granted an all-encompassing pardon to his influence-peddling, coke-snorting, hooker-schtupping son — figured he’d test the tasteful limits of the American president’s unlimited power to pardon. And so he did, granting pardons and otherwise commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 federal convicts in what his handlers are weirdly bragging about as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.”

In a White House statement, Biden tried to justify his actions. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” he began. We thought that was Australia. But whatever. “That is why, today, I am pardoning 39 people who have shown successful rehabilitation and have shown commitment to making their communities stronger and safer. I am also commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who are serving long prison sentences — many of whom would receive lower sentences if charged under today’s laws, policies, and practices.”

We suppose it’s possible that Biden deliberated thoughtfully about each of those 39 pardonees — possible, just like it’s possible for a flipped coin to land on its edge or for Hillary Clinton to seem likable. But what about that other 1,500? Who vetted them for forgiveness?

Answer: no one. As Politico reports, “The administration granted commutations en masse to all those who fit a broader set of parameters, touting the move as a record-setting act of mercy carried out just before the holidays.”

Got that? Happy holidays to all these convicts, and a middle finger to their victims.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross and Joseph Simonson have the dirty low-down: “There is Daniel Fillerup, sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl that killed an Albany woman, and Shelinder Aggarwal, an Alabama ‘pill mill’ doctor who the Department of Justice said ‘directly contributed to the opioid epidemic.’ And Biden commuted the 17.5-year prison sentence of former Luzerne County, Pa., judge Michael Conahan, who took $2.1 million in kickbacks from a for-profit prison executive in exchange for sentencing juveniles to those facilities.”

In addition, there’s Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor who defrauded Medicare and betrayed her cancer patients by using diluted chemotherapy drugs and old needles. And there’s William Boyland, a one-time Democrat pol who was convicted of bribery, extortion, fraud, conspiracy, and theft.

Of all these, though, the former judge stands out. As The Washington Post’s Heather Long writes, “Conahan and fellow judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. were accused of receiving cash kickbacks in exchange for helping to construct two for-profit juvenile detention facilities in Luzerne County and then sentencing young people to those facilities to keep them full. In total, they received more than $2.8 million, court documents show. They didn’t do this a handful of times. They did it to more than 2,500 juveniles over five years.”

Sick, huh? But that’s not the worst part. Conahan sentenced first-time offenders instead of handing down a warning or probation or community service. And some of these kids were younger than 13. One of them, Edward Kenzakoski, ended up committing suicide after spending eight months in detention.

The backlash against this particular Biden pardon is both deep and profound. It’s also bipartisan. Here’s Pennsylvania’s popular Democrat governor, Josh Shapiro: “I do feel strongly that President Biden got it absolutely wrong and created a lot of pain here in northeastern Pennsylvania. This was not only a black eye on the community — the kids for cash scandal — but it also affected families in really deep and profound and sad ways. … He deserves to be behind bars, not walking as a free man.”

And yet, at the same time Biden is handing out pardons like trick-or-treat candy, his Department of Justice is continuing to investigate, arrest, and prosecute American citizens for taking part in a political protest nearly four years ago. So much for the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of “a speedy and public trial.” As Julie Kelly writes at RealClearInvestigations:

In what Attorney General Merrick Garland describes as the biggest criminal investigation in Department of Justice history, more than 1,560 people have been charged for federal crimes never before used against political protesters, including under a post-Enron obstruction statute overturned by the Supreme Court in June. At least 1,000 of these defendants have been convicted — either at trial or by accepting plea offers — with some 650 defendants ordered to serve time in a federal prison. Sentences range from a few days in jail to up to 22 years as the DOJ seeks “terror enhancements” to tack on additional time.

Last Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Donald Trump was asked about those January 6 prisoners. “I’m going to be acting very quickly,” he said. “First day. They’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”

Against this backdrop, as if to further mock our system of two-tiered justice, Joe Biden vowed that he’s not done yet: “I will take more steps in the weeks ahead.”