autopen, Joe Biden and Digital Signature
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Trump blasts autopen use in Biden White House
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Feldman has not yet been asked to appear before the committee’s majority and minority counsel for a transcribed interview.
Joe Biden said every pardon and commutation he issued was his decision, calling Republican "liars" for alleging his aides illegally used an autopen.
President Donald Trump has claimed that the thousands of pardons signed during the Biden administration are void, due to alleged autopen usage.
Former President Joe Biden did not closely review every case included in his sweeping end-of-term clemency spree and instead delegated vast authority to aides to handle the process, including to then-chief of staff Jeff Zients,
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Lost in today’s partisan volleys, though, is that a president doesn’t need to sign anything to dole out clemency.
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A 1983 article in The Washingtonian traced the autopen’s presidential use back to the “polygraph” device Thomas Jefferson invented to have his writing simultaneously copied. “Every President from Kennedy on has relied on the Autopen to help satisfy the enormous demand for his signature,” the article stated.