Posted on 07/15/2025 4:58:56 AM PDT by RandFan
Congress likely cannot do a single thing about past pardons. The pardon power in the constitution exist only in the president of United States, and is pretty much unlimited and cannot be regulated in any way by Congress. Further, you will have a lot of RINOs who will not vote to overturn a pardon, no matter how much evidence there is that Biden did not sign those pardons himself. Besides, it would be difficult to prove this, in the present circumstances, because Biden is claiming that he authorized what happened.
What should be done instead is for Congress to pass a law that will severely punish any government employee who uses an auto pen or any other means or device to sign the name of the president on any official act. Basically, it would be a law against forging the signature of the president. There could be a mandatory term of 20 years, with no parole or plea bargain permitted.
Rand Paul what a phoney
Fresh off his attempt to take down the MAGA bill debacle, now he’s trying to consolidate his base by attacking a sure thing to please them with something that will be inconsequential.
Going there when it doesn’t matter and will affect nothing.
Go Rand.
Not a huge fan of Rand Paul; remember he has to get other majority members to agree hearings are necessary and his to get Thune (Senate majority leader) to authorize it. For what ever reason that’s not being done. All Rand can do at this point is score PR points publicizing it and publicizing himself. Publicizing himself he likes to do anyway.
And if succeeds get the dirt, he can’t try Fauci all the can do is make a referral to DOJ and send the report with the dirt.
Wonder how much money Biden’s staff made off the autopen and how many now live in a manor named HAVEALOT on the arched gate entrance?.
With Rand and Fauci, “it’s not just business, it’s personal.”
I hate to be the skeptic here, but absolutely nothing will happen with this. First of all, Trump‘s DOJ has continually shown us that they have no interest in prosecuting anything. They are content to write tweets and truths to get us all excited for nothing to ever happen.
But from a practical standpoint, nothing will come of this they will simply argue that Biden was made aware of the potential pardons and commutations, that they were discussed, and he sent it to them and they went and issued the pardons via auto pen. There is enough plausible deniability in the New York Times article that this will go nowhere. Of course the DOJ could push the issue and invalidate some of these pardons and go litigate it in court, but we know that that won’t happen.
It’s already be given the ok.
A distraction from his vote to raise taxes.
RP won’t be able to get 60 votes in Senate for anything. He has nothing to do with the judicial process than flap his lips.
Obidens wasn’t mentally competent to approve squat much less the autopen.
Of course he wasn’t, but his doctor refuses to admit that, and of course, Biden won’t admit it, either.
Point taken.
Unfortunately all Biden has to do is say, “yeah I approved all of them”
Poor. Gone.
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