honestly the 'pardon' ability needs to go away completely. maybe it made sense before, and/or wasnt abused, but now it just seems prepped to be a tool to release your fellow felons in crime.
Clemency is a useful tool, it just needs reform. Some states require it to go through a committee rather than just handing the power to a single official. There are probably other ways to curtail abuse as well.
The point of being able to issue pardons is that Biden should have been pardoning everyone who's in prison for smoking weed. Too bad Biden's a little bitch who won't use the office of president to do much good.