Speaker Mike Johnson reveals why the Autopen scandal is a big deal

[mystery-ak]

March 17, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson reveals why the Autopen scandal is a big deal
By Jim Davis

The Autopen is a fascinating device.

Developed to allow celebrities to mass-produce autographs for hordes of swooning fans, it was never intended to enable a Muppet to serve as president of the United States.

But that seems to be exactly what happened.

Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after his first few days in office — every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) — was signed with not one, but two Autopens.

The only known exception was Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.

Of course, the Democratic Party Deep State (DPDS) propaganda bureaus, formerly known as “news media,” are carefully ignoring this development. MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, PBS, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic … the silence is deafening.

The sole exception is Newsweek, which observed that “the MAGA community is furious”:

    Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has called for the Justice Department to investigate whether Biden's "cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval."

    If that was the case, "these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void," Bailey wrote on X.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/speaker_mike_johnson_reveals_why_the_autopen_scandal_is_a_big_deal.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

The President's actual signature provides an audit trail of truth for history and legality.

If there is not auditable evidence for each and every instance that Biden authorized autopen to be used for each signed item, how can it be argued that item has been Constutionally signed into law?

What's the difference between a fraudulent forged check and a fraudulent forged pardon?

Signatures matter on legal documents, like mortgages.  Why not Federal laws and pardons?

[Free Vulcan]

I'm willing to bet he wasn't even in the room or it even passed before his eyes. I think that's why he was shocked when I believe it was Tapper who told him he signed things and he denied even remembering the document.

[jafo2010]

Everyone involved in this FRAUD should be indicted, imprisoned, and the key tossed.

[Smokin Joe]

Everyone involved in this FRAUD should be indicted, imprisoned, and the key tossed.

It is a de facto coup, and those acting in it should be treated appropriately.

[jafo2010]

Ok, I give in.  Send them to the gallows!

Sell tickets for the person that gets to pull the lever.  I tell you, George Carlin was right, it would be a huge money maker.

I am a firm believer in PUBLIC DISPATCH.  Only way capital punishment will ever serve as a deterrent.

[mystery-ak]

Alan Dershowitz Explains Why ‘We Will Never Know’ If Autopen Pardons Are Invalid


Harold Hutchison
Reporter
March 17, 2025 10:57 PM ET


Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Monday that the American people may never know whether pardons issued by former President Joe Biden are invalid due to the use of an autopen to sign them.

President Donald Trump declared in a post on Truth Social early Monday morning that pardons issued by Biden to members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol were invalid due to the use of an autopen, a mechanical device that can replicate a stored signature. Dershowitz told viewers of “The Dershow” that if an autopen was used to sign a bill into law, the law would likely be invalid, due to language in the Constitution requiring the president to sign the bill into law. (RELATED: Alan Dershowitz Gives Props To Justice Alito For His Dissent In SCOTUS’ Trump Foreign Aid Ruling)

“I haven’t heard anybody mention this point, but it’s in the Constitution, so I am going to mention it. There’s a difference among documents that are signed or have to be signed by the president. Let’s say, for example, a bill. We remember all from civics one, yeah, a bill becomes law,” Dershowitz said. “When does a bill become law? When the president signs it or the president doesn’t sign it and vetoes it, when the veto is overcome by the votes, this, that, the other.”

“OK, what does the Constitution say?” Dershowitz asked. “The Constitution is very clear that if the president approves the bill, quote ‘He shall sign it.’ He shall sign it, not an autopen, he shall sign it. That seems to strongly suggest he has to pick up a pen. There has to be a document. He has to put pen on paper and sign.”

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https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/17/alan-dershowitz-explains-why-we-will-never-know-if-autopen-pardons-are-invalid/

[Kamaji]

Welp, then all bills that were signed with any form of modern pen would also be invalid, because the president didn’t dip the nib of the pen into authentic 1790s ink before “signing” those bills.   


Besides which, where in the Constitution does it require that the president sign a pardon for it to be valid?  The issue raised with respect to bills becoming law doesn’t even arise with a pardon.
What a maroon.