Pam Bondi says Justice Department is reviewing Biden’s use of Autopen for pardons
Attorney General Pam Bondi is apparently joining a conspiracy theory-driven effort to undo parts of Joe Biden’s presidency because he, like many presidents, used a machine to automate his signature on documents.
“My team has already initiated a review of the Biden administration’s reported use of the automatic opening for pardons,” Bondi said in a social media post Tuesday, tagging Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) as he did so.
Comer chairs the House Oversight Committee, which released a report Tuesday stating that Biden’s use of the autopen suggests he was mentally unfit for office and that his executive actions can therefore be overturned.
Comer himself has been caught having his staff digitally sign legal documents on his behalf, in some cases in letters and subpoenas sent as part of his investigation into Biden for the same behavior.
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In March, when Trump began pushing the conspiracy theory, legal experts told NPR it was a “failure.”
“The argument that the pardon fails because it was signed by an automatic pen fails from the beginning, because there is no requirement that the pardon even be signed,” Jay Wexler, a constitutional law professor at Boston University School of Law, told the outlet.
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According to NPR, presidents dating back to Thomas Jefferson have relied on this technology, which was patented in 1803.