How Bulletproof Are Joe Biden’s Pardons?

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How Bulletproof Are Joe Biden’s Pardons?

Autopen pardons can’t possibly be constitutional. Why not test the theory on a few high-profile malefactors?

John Green | June 21, 2026

Near the end of Joe Biden’s incompetence, corruption, and dementia extravaganza, thousands of pardons were issued — many for unstated crimes.  Most weren’t done with a pen in a human hand, as our founders intended.  The were done with an autopen — a machine that can imitate a human signature.  Given Joey “SoftServe’s” mental state, there’s ample reason to question whether the machine-signed pardons were a valid reflection of the president’s will, such as it was.

On December 2, 2025, after the magnitude of the autopen signing frenzy became apparent, President Trump declared Biden’s autopen orders invalid — not because Biden lacked the authority to issue them, but because there was no evidence that he even ordered them — no audio recordings, no decision logs, no witness affidavits.  All of those pardons may have actually been issued by faceless bureaucrats, whose only power was access to the machine which could hold a pen and imitate Joe Biden’s illegible scrawl.

The Hunter Biden pardon reinforces that theory.  It was different from Joe’s other pardons because it was signed by the actual hand of the president — a strong indication that it actually represented the will of the Article II chief executive.  Apparently, Joe cared more about the pardon of his son than the thousands of others issued by his office.  Is that because he didn’t even know about many of the others?

So what changed after President Trump declared his predecessor’s pardons null and void?  Nothing.  None of the monsters released by Biden has been re-arrested.  None of the Biden cronies who escaped justice has shown contrition, nor begged for forgiveness.  It’s as if Trump’s order means nothing, because the matter hasn’t been adjudicated — yet.

That raises two constitutionally significant questions:

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[MeganC]

The Constitution is toothless without good people to enforce it.

[Bigun]

The Constitution is toothless without good people to enforce it.

EVERY jot and tiddle of it!

[Cyber Liberty]

The Constitution is toothless without good people to enforce it.

Correct!  Nobody is challenging the Pardons, and as a result, they stand.

[Smokin Joe]

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

John Adams.

Why religious? Because religious people believe in some power greater than themselves, which will ultimately judge their actions, and temper their behaviour accordingly in the face of objective standards of right and wrong.

[Hoodat]

How Bulletproof Are Joe Biden’s Pardons?

We'll never know because Republicans are too feckless and chickenshit to challenge them.

[roamer_1]

Correct!  Nobody is challenging the Pardons, and as a result, they stand.

Two years... I don't know how effective it would be to pursue a challenge - Just because Tumpy declared them null and void doesn't make it so in court. That's a monster-monkey-knot, probably revisited and argued in each and every case - All needing to be accomplished before Tumpy's use-by date... Because the bet will be a matter of tying the thing up for a mere two years before the Democrats can overturn enough of the government to provide cover. And any lawyer worth his salt will find that to be easy money.

[Cyber Liberty]

We'll never know because Republicans are too feckless and chickenshit to challenge them.

Correct! Nobody will challenge them until the Statutes of limitations expire.   

[Wingnut]

I don't know how bullet proof his pardons are but I do know how bullet proof Biden is.  Now one wants to shoot a guy who is already dead.

[mountaineer]

In theory, Fauci could be prosecuted under the conspiracy statute 18 USC 371 especially if new evidence emerges.

It feels like a long shot with President Biden's preemptive pardon, but then, who could have anticipated the radical transparency of DNI @TulsiGabbard's  final days in office... ...

https://twitter.com/C__Herridge/status/2068855858209894698