The president has outdone himself. When we’re talking about Joe Biden, that’s not a good thing.

After offering clemency earlier this month to drug dealers who trafficked in fentanyl and oxycodone, the starring players in America’s opioid crisis, Biden upped the despicable ante by taking child killers and mass murders off Death Row.

All in the name of justice.

On Monday, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row according to reports, including at least five child killers and several mass murderers.

It was all part of the 82-year-old president’s effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the White House said.

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement.

Bull.

In 2010, 12-year-old Lexis Roberts was kidnapped, shot and had her throat cut by Thomas Sanders, who just got the commutation nod from Biden. Roberts also had to watch Sanders murder her mother, as the New York Post reported.

Also getting a boost from Biden is Jorge Avila-Torrez, who sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9. They had been riding their bikes around their suburban Chicago neighborhood.

Kaboni Savage, another clemency recipient, was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer — while James Roane, Jr. participated in the murder of 11 people as a drug dealer in Richmond, Va.

This was the Christmas present Biden gifted the victims’ families.

“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

Was that the same “good conscience” that pardoned son Hunter Biden after repeatedly saying he would not? Or does he only “ache for families” when it’s his own?

Many people abhor the death penalty and want the U.S. to get rid of it. That’s what Congress is for. Anti-death penalty advocates may one day win through legislative action. But it’s not the president’s job to do an end run on laws he doesn’t like.

Juries convicted these criminals and sentenced them to death. Biden just told them it doesn’t matter.

Biden’s conscience is malleable, apparently. Conspicuously absent in his “everybody off Death Row” spree were Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a terrorist who with his brother Tamerlan killed three people and injured hundreds more with pressure cooker bombs in 2013; Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 at the Tree of Life Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, and Dylann Roof, who in 2015 killed nine black churchgoers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

If the death penalty remains for them, why not for all who received that sentence? Why did Biden consider some atrocities deserving of the death penalty, but not others?

Like many of Biden’s actions, it makes no sense. But it does fit with the “logic” of resistance. That “new administration” who would have carried out the law of the land is Donald Trump.

In going scorched earth on anything Trump might touch, Biden only continues to burn his own legacy.

Editorial cartoon by Chip Bok (Creators Syndicate)