President Biden is facing blowback from his own party for his dramatic Sunday evening pardon of his son, Hunter Biden.

A growing chorus of Democrats have raised their voices to object to the president’s action — an action he and his spokespeople had repeatedly stated he would not take.

It’s easy to see why there is such Democratic consternation.

In the eyes of many, the Biden pardon cedes the moral high ground that the president and his party have spent years staking out. It also offers generous leeway to President-elect Trump for his own efforts to bend the justice system to his will.

President Biden’s now-abandoned pledge to not interfere in his son’s cases was couched as a principled stand to maintain the independence of the justice system from political influence.

What are voters to make of that idea, now that it turns out the separation is not so sacrosanct after all?

Biden sought to frame his decision as a corrective to political interference from Republican politicians who had pursued his son.

“I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” he wrote in his statement announcing the pardon.

But it’s hard to make that argument stick beyond the ranks of the most committed Democratic voters.

Hunter Biden was convicted in June of lying on a form used to obtain a gun back in 2018. The younger Biden had denied........

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