Scholar: Biden’s Autopen uses the “biggest constitutional scandal”

Constitutional legal researcher Randy Barnett urged the rhetoric of democrats affirming that democracy is threatened by the Trump administration when “the greatest constitutional scandal in American history” took place under the Biden administration with the use of the autopen.

“For all the speeches of a” constitutional crisis “or threats to” our democracy “, having the executive branch systematically directed by subordinates unknown to a mentally incompetent president is the greatest constitutional scandal of American history – it is questioned the legality of official acts accomplished in his name but without appropriate authority,” Barnett told X on Monday.

“Southern Seccession was a” constitutional crisis “,” added Barnett in a follow -up Tuesday message. “This is a constitutional scandal.”

Barnett, a law professor at the University of Georgetown, who is director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, referred to an interview that former president Joe Biden conducted with the New York Times by defending his use of an autopen. Biden said he had orally approved a long list of Clémence and Pardon at the end of his mandate, but that his aid used the Autopen to officer the shares.

Biden’s chief of staff would have given the approval of the Autopen pardons on the last day in power

Former President Joe Biden spoke to the New York Times in July to defend the use by his Autopen administration. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)

In the midst of the controversy of Biden Autopen, Democratic legislators and left -wing media experts continued to slam Trump as a threat to democracy – which was a subject of current discussion during the electoral cycle – and claiming its actions as president, such as the expulsion of illegal immigrants and the revocation of visa privileges for certain foreign students, launched the United States in a constitutional crisis.

Biden told Times that he was aware of each forgiveness before leaving his duties in 2024, which included leniency and switching actions linked to 2,500 non -violent drug delinquents in his last weeks in the office.

“I made each decision,” Biden told Times in a telephone interview earlier in July which was published on Sunday. He added that the staff had used the autopen for pardons and switches “because there were many.”

“Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons which applied to a large number of people, confirmed him and the aid,” reported the Times. “Rather, after an in -depth discussion on different possible criteria, he signed the standards he wanted to be used to determine which condemned would be eligible for a reduction in sentence.”

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Biden has also forgiven Anthony Fauci, former president -chief medical advisor; The former president of the heads of joint staffs Mark Cany; And the members of the Chamber Committee who investigated the riots of January 6, 2021. Less than half an hour before Trump became president, Biden also forgiven members of his family, notably his brothers James B. B. B. Biden and Francis W. Biden, his sister Valerie Biden Owens and his brother-in-law John T. Owens.

An example of an autopen inserts a signature on a piece of paper. Former President Joe Biden was examined for his use by his administration of an autopen. (The Associated Press)

Automatic signatures are produced by a machine, as opposed to an authentic and handwritten signature.

The project to monitor the Conservative Heritage Foundation first investigated Biden administration The use of an automatic earlier in 2025 and found that the same signature was on a bivvy of decrees and other official documents, while the signature of Biden on the document announcing his departure from the 2024 race varied from the apparent signature produced by the machine.

The use of the autopen follows years of montage problems that Biden’s mental and healthy acuity and health were deteriorating, which struck a fever in the 2024 campaign cycle following the president’s disastrous debate against Trump. Biden finally abandoned the race on July 21, 2024 and approved the president of the time, Kamala Harris, in his place.

President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for its use of an autopen for official presidential actions, calling it a scandal. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)

Since the recovery of the oval office, Trump has fallen back on the use by his predecessor of the autopen, saying that Biden’s staff would have used the pen to sign the presidential actions without the knowledge of Biden.

“I guarantee you that he didn’t know anything about what he signed, I guaranteed you,” said Trump on Monday when he asked Biden’s interview with The Times.

Trump responds to Biden’s dismissal of the Autopen investigation, says he did not know `what was going on ”

Biden’s interview follows Trump by sending a note to the Ministry of Justice in June, leading the Attorney General Bondi To investigate whether the aid of the Biden administration conspired to deceive the public about his mental state and simultaneously used an autopen to sign key presidential actions.

Former President Joe Biden said President Donald Trump and the Republicans are “liars” for affirming that he was disabled as president and his aid used the pen for official presidential actions. (Evan Vucci / The Associated Press)

Trump orders the Attorney General to investigate the use of Biden Autopen in the midst of cognitive concerns

“In recent months, he has become more and more obvious that President Biden Aids abused the power of presidential signatures thanks to the use of an autopen to hide the cognitive decline of Biden and assert the authority of Article II, “wrote Trump in his letter.” This plot marks one of the most dangerous and concerned scandals in American history. The American public was deliberately protected from the discovery which exercised the executive power, while being the signing of Biden was deployed on thousands of documents to make changes in radical policy. “”

Biden said in his interview with the New York Times that Trump and other Republicans were “liars” for saying that he was invalid as president and his aid used the pen for official presidential actions.

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“They are liars. They know it. They know, with certainty. I mean, that is – look, what they, they had a pretty good thing here. They did so much. They lied so regularly on almost everything they do. The best thing they can do is try to change the concentration and focus on something else. And that’s one – I think it’s,” he said.