resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTrump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Turkey Pardons ‘Invalid’ at Thanksgiving Ceremonywww.mediaite.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1349arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1336arrow-down1external-linkTrump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Turkey Pardons ‘Invalid’ at Thanksgiving Ceremonywww.mediaite.comresipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoHe also got caught auto penning executive orders and they quickly took them back and had someone sign them so they weren’t all identical.
minus-squarereptar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI thought it was identical signatures. As in, not an autopen, but digital copy.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIf an autopen is disqualifying e signatures certainly are since you do not even need the fairly complex and large autopen. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void Pardons don’t even need to be signed, executive orders however do and even then their legal basis is very iffy.
He also got caught auto penning executive orders and they quickly took them back and had someone sign them so they weren’t all identical.
I thought it was identical signatures. As in, not an autopen, but digital copy.
If an autopen is disqualifying e signatures certainly are since you do not even need the fairly complex and large autopen.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void
Pardons don’t even need to be signed, executive orders however do and even then their legal basis is very iffy.