Will Trump’s autopen executive order de-bench 237 leftist federal judges (including Ketanji Brown Jackson)?

American Thinker ^ | 11/29/2025 | Andrea Widburg

[FreeReign]

Biden will just say he authorized it. The person who did it will say they had Biden’s permission.

It's not as easy as that.

Legally, I believe you need a written explicit authorization.

[Organic Panic]

I do believe Chomo Joe signed her appointment in front of the cameras after congress approved that stupid tuesday.

[Mariner]

“Legally, I believe you need a written explicit authorization.”

There is no precedent.

There is no law.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=what+permission+trail+is+required+by+law+for+use+of+the+POTUS+autopen

[SuperLuminal]

If it begins to look like it would be successful, the feckless & impotent GOP would immediately surrender to the communists...

[lastchance]

No.

[lula]

“Fraud vitiates everything” (I realize it was an opinion by a judge and not part of the settlement). The Auto-Pen was done fraudulently. I would think there is basis to void everything done by Auto-Pen. Then again I dont trust Roberts.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

My copy of the Constitution is missing the part that says a President can remove confirmed federal judges by Executive Order.

Executive Orders are, by definition, orders given by the President to employees of the Executive Branch. Confirmed federal district and circuit judges, as well as Supreme Court justices, are all employees of the Judicial Branch. He literally can't order them to do anything.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Not how it works.

Never mind - they're on a roll. Don't confuse them with the facts or the law.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Two things come to my mind:

1. It generates a cloud of suspicion over her nomination and confirmation. That cloud will never go away.

2. I thought Executive Orders applied only to the Executive Branch. Her “confirmation” is a Judicial Branch item.

[SMARTY]

Well, is it possible to vacate their opinions?

[BigFreakinToad]

I guess I’ll take first watch for flying pigs.

[chopperk]

Jackson will destroy herself. She is just plain dumb.

[VRW Conspirator]

Will Trump’s autopen executive order de-bench 237 leftist federal judges (including Ketanji Brown Jackson)?

They were sworn in, regardless how they got there, no. Just like Biden.

[FreeReign]

Legally, I believe you need a written explicit authorization.

There is no precedent. There is no law.

No. There are forgery laws.

The use of an autopen without explicit authorization is a crime.

[Mariner]

“The use of an autopen without explicit authorization is a crime. “

Verbal authorization is adequate.

Like I said, Biden and the principal will just say he authorized it.

[Jim Noble]

Will Trump’s autopen executive order de-bench 237 leftist federal judges (including Ketanji Brown Jackson)?

Nope.

[FreeReign]

Like I said, Biden and the principal will just say he authorized it.

Trump disagrees with you.

Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.

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House Oversight Committee Chairman Comer disagrees with you.

"The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover-up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid. Our report reveals how key aides colluded to mislead the public and the extraordinary measures they took to sustain the appearance of presidential authority as Biden’s capacity to function independently diminished. Executive actions performed by Biden White House staff and signed by autopen are null and void. We are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a thorough review of these executive actions and scrutinize key Biden aides who took the Fifth to hide their participation in the cover-up. The D.C. Board of Medicine must also review the actions taken by President Biden’s physician to hide his true condition."

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I haven't seen the House Committee report yet. Trump has. And the DOJ now has it.