Trump recently announced that the pardons Biden signed near the end of his term were voided because they were signed with autopen.
I don’t know that single fact, by itself, would be enough to vacate pardons. It would certainly merit investigation, considering it’s possible that someone else was using Biden’s auto signature.
However, this fact does not exist in a vacuum.
After Trump was charged with mishandling classified misinformation, a special counsel was convened to determine if Job Biden could be charged with the same crime.
The special counsel declined to bring charges. Biden was, directly quoting from their report (and from basically every news organization in the nation), “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.
If that’s the case, and his memory is so poor that it affects his judgement and he can’t be held responsible for his actions, then it seems like any official action he took after that point could be called into question and potentially vacated: pardons, Executive Orders, bills signed into law.
Two options: Biden’s judgement was sound, or it wasn’t.
However, I will add… When in doubt, we’re supposed to err on the side of letting people off the hook. I don’t remember the exact quote and in cases like this, Google is cheating. It’s something like, “it is better that a hundred guilty men go free than a single innocent man be imprisoned.”
I’m not sure I have the number right, nor the exact consequences described, but you get the spirit of the idea.
So, sadly, if in doubt, let the pardons stand. As much as it pains me to say because some of the things he’s allegedly done are atrocious. If it seems like I am coming awfully close to contradicting myself, you bet I am.
These sorts of decisions ain’t supposed to be easy.
A cut-and-dried case in a complex situation is a rarity and often indicate a lack of research or information from extremely biased sources – which comes to the same thing.
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