President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that his predecessor’s on the Capitol are invalid because then-President Joe Biden didn’t use a real pen.
“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social online platform.
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WATCH HERETrump went on to allege that Biden didn’t know about the pardons or approve them, and that therefore all the committee members would be “subject to investigation at the highest level.”
However, the makes clear the president has unique executive powers to issue pardons and makes no provision for subsequent presidents to rescind them — for issues relating to the choice of pen or anything else.
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SIGN UP Biden and President Barack Obama both used an autopen device to sign official documents, a practice which is legally binding, according to from the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, commissioned by President George W. Bush.
"The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law," the office said, adding that this includes the use of an autopen.
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Trump’s overnight comments appear to have been inspired by the Oversight Project, an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. The group whether Biden had the “mental capacity” to order an autopen to be used to add his signature.
It's unclear if the president was planning imminent action or an investigation against the committee members.
A presidential pardon needs to be fully delivered to the recipient and the president can't pardon crimes related to impeachment — but it is not clear what legal avenue Trump intends to pursue to undo Biden's orders.
The White House and a representative of former President Joe Biden did not immediately respond to 온라인카지노사이트 News' requests for comment.
Biden ordered the in January in one of his final acts in office. Biden said he took the action to ensure that public figures who had investigated and criticized Trump while in office would not face retaliatory action under his new administration.
that the committee members are guilty of unspecified "major crimes," writing the phrase in all capital letters in a text message to 온라인카지노사이트 News after Biden issued the pardons in January.
The panel’s members were Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was then a House member; former Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla.; and current Reps. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Dr. Anthony Fauci also received pre-emptive pardons from Biden.
Biden was a prolific issuer of pardons in his final days in office and set a clemency with almost 2,500 sentences commuted, including more than 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
Trump himself also pardoned some and commuted the sentences of 14 of his supporters, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups, who were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
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