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 Federalist Wire: ... Newly uncovered documents expose President Joe Biden’s detachment from critical clemency decisions, with aides scrambling to create a paper trail suggesting his involvement in thousands of pardons and commutations signed by autopen in his final days. National Archives records reveal internal memos showing Biden’s team worked to portray him as the decision-maker, despite evidence he was largely uninvolved. House Oversight Committee aides highlighted on social media, “Internal emails reveal Biden didn’t review thousands of pardons granted in his final days and even his own White House lawyers were scrambling for proof he approved them.” This raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the process, particularly as Biden’s autopen signed off on clemency for felons, including violent offenders, without his direct oversight. Biden’s administration issued over 4,200 pardons—more than any other president—using three autopen-signed warrants, including pre-emptive ...

 Blaze: The Oversight Project obtained damning internal emails this week from the Justice Department revealing a high-level understanding in the Biden administration that the autopenned commutations issued on Jan. 17 in the former president's name were legally flawed. In addition to showcasing former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer's legal concerns, the emails provided by U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin's office reveal that the Biden administration apparently misled the nation about the violent criminal nature of the individuals who received commutations. 'You should stop saying that because it is untrue or at least misleading.' Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, "This represents the first written black and white evidence of fundamental disagreement in the Biden camp as it relates to the pardon strategy writ large." "Obviously, this is particularized to the warrants for the commutations of people t...

 Just the News: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says his investigation into Joe Biden's mental decline as president could be used as evidence to overturn some of his pardons or executive orders because his senior staff have failed to prove he knew what he was signing amid accusations of mental decline. “It's questionable whether or not it's legal to use an autopen on a legal document, but what's not questionable is if the President of the United States had no idea what was being signed with using the autopen in his name,” Comer told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Friday. “Then, you know, that's not legal.” Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said he believes the evidence his investigation uncovers can be used to also call into question the validity of some of the former president’s clemency acts, especially after the disastrous summer 2024 presidential debate in which Biden’s poor performance gave rise to questions about his mental capacity. “I thin...

  DC Daily Journal: The Trump administration is wasting no time digging into the questionable actions of its predecessor, with a sharp focus on the flurry of last-minute pardons issued by former President Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy confronted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, brandishing copies of Biden’s pardons and raising doubts about their legitimacy. Holding up documents with suspiciously uniform signatures, Doocy pointed out that most appeared to be autopen-generated, with one messy signature standing out as potentially authentic. “Most of the big pardons have the same, very neat signature. We would expect that probably to be the autopen. There is one that looks different, it looks authentic, in fact if you look at the last name it looks like the former president was having a hard time spelling his last name there. Is this White House of the opinion that the only pardon that would count is one that the president signed hi...