She'd want to get on with it; they're mostly fairly elderly.
And the optics would be _awful_; no sensible president would do it in the first place.
And the optics would be _awful_; no sensible president would do it in the first place.
That's obviously no longer a constraint. The optics of pardoning Anthony Lewandowski (among many, many others) looked awful and he was still pardoned.
And I think that was a little different; in that highly polarized environment it was possibly a little easier to sell corrupt pardons if they were of people on the president's 'team'; at least some of his supporters would put up with it on that basis. Holmes wouldn't qualify; she's just a generic wealthy criminal.
This pardon abuse has been going on for awhile.