US EditionTrump takes aim at Biden pardons with new autopen directive
Trump declares all Biden-era autopen-signed clemency and official documents null, targeting about 92% of such documents, following a House Oversight report alleging unauthorized use.
- On Tuesday, Trump announced he is terminating autopen‑signed documents from Biden's administration, stating, `Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized 'AUTOPEN,' within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect`.
- On Friday, Trump wrote that about 92% of Biden's executive orders used an autopen device, which presidents of both parties commonly employ for routine or ceremonial signatures.
- Legal analysts disputed Trump's claims, with Barbara McQuade saying autopen signatures are valid and the signing method is irrelevant; Biden and his former aides rejected disengagement claims, and it is not known whether Biden used an autopen device.
- Recipients were warned their documents are terminated, and pardons for family members of Biden and commutations for nonviolent drug offenders could be affected by Trump’s proclamation.
- Institutionally, cancelling predecessors' orders is unusual and the proclamation would upend years of routine executive practice by retroactively voiding Biden's actions amid claims questioning Biden's mental fitness and aides' roles.
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US President Trump has invalidated pardons from his predecessor Biden.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is canceling all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen. The autopen is used to “copy” a person’s signature accurately, usually on high-volume or ceremonial documents. Trump and his supporters have made a series of unfounded claims that Biden’s use of the device while president invalidated his actions or suggested he was not fully aware of those ac…
Donald Trump does not abandon his autopen accusations against Joe Biden. The US President wants all documents signed by his predecessor with the mechanical signature aid to be invalidated. Is this legally possible? A prosecutor explains.
Again and again Donald Trump makes the documents signed by his predecessor Joe Biden with a signing machine on the subject. Now, for the second time, he picks up the Democratic's pardons. An expert makes it clear that he is not entitled to do so.
The US president withdraws all pardons from his predecessor, which were signed with a machine. Legal experts see no legal basis for this.
Donald Trump has declared the pardons of his predecessor Joe Biden invalid. Legal experts stressed that this is not possible. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump declared all pardons signed by his predecessor Joe Biden with a so-called signing machine invalid. However, legal experts immediately expressed considerable doubts about the legality of the move. Trump wrote on his online platform Truth Social that the documents thus signed are now in…
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