Does Biden actually decide about those pardons, or is he by now gone enough that he mostly just signs what somebody puts on front of him and tells him to sign? Perhaps they need Jill to do that "tell him to sign" part, so she is granting pardons to as many people as possible so that her "retirement" will be as cushy as possible even if she does go scorched earth on several of those high profile movers like Obama and Pelosi, so she will have people working towards that because she got their pardon signed by hubby.