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Biden Admin Official Admits She Didn’t Know If Autopen Orders Came From President
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Posted on 06/26/2025 2:13:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone

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21 posted on 06/26/2025 3:29:01 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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According to Tanden, she and other Biden aides would send requests for autopen use approval to members of Biden’s “inner circle,”

Joe Biden Inner Circle

1060 West Addison

Chicago, IL 60613

Dear unknown Friend of Joe:

Please send authorization to use the Otto T. Pen function again. It's a big hurry, because the check has not cleared yet.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Dindknow Nuthin

White House Staffer

22 posted on 06/26/2025 3:34:36 PM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: NoLibZone

I was just following orders, but from who, I conveniently have no clue.


23 posted on 06/26/2025 3:39:30 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SENTINEL; NoLibZone

As I said before, the only question here is, is pushing the start button on the autopen more like licking envelopes, or more like usurping Presidential authority?

Having worked in many office environments, I imaging it’s more like licking envelopes.


24 posted on 06/26/2025 3:44:26 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
If she operated the Auto Pen without a direct written order from Biden himself, she committed FRAUD and should be PROSECUTED

Sorry, that's just nonsense.

This woman was a CLERK. The people responsible for covering up Biden's mental status and for making US policy without authority were a million miles above this woman.

25 posted on 06/26/2025 3:46:39 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: NoLibZone

We need to correct the headline: Tanden testified that No Autopen Orders Came To Her From President Biden.


26 posted on 06/26/2025 4:08:23 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Jim Noble

This “clerk” has the quite the resume—lol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neera_Tanden

—president and CEO of the Center for American Progress
—In 2023, Tanden replaced Susan Rice as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council.
—senior staffer to Hillary Clinton
—Tanden helped draft the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
—In November 2020, then President-elect Joe Biden announced he would nominate Tanden as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director. However, Tanden asked for the nomination to be withdrawn after Senator Joe Manchin announced that he would not vote in favor of confirmation.

She is playing possum.


27 posted on 06/26/2025 4:16:55 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“WOW. She’s either insanely STUPID or BRUTALLY HONEST about her own criminal actions.
If she operated the Auto Pen without a direct written order from Biden himself, she committed FRAUD and should be PROSECUTED.”

There’s much bigger fish to fry... but she aught to catch some punishment as well...


28 posted on 06/26/2025 4:20:43 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: NoLibZone

While they’re at it, Congress ought to enact legislation that does not allow first ladies (or gentlemen) to conduct official governmental actions at the presidential level. I don’t vote for co-presidents and a sure is hell didn’t vote for HRC to be the co-president... Jilly too!


29 posted on 06/26/2025 4:27:08 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: NoLibZone

I believe the flurry of pardons in the last few weeks of the Biden Administration were the work of Jill Biden andAnthony Bernal and likely involved payments to the Biden Crime Family.


30 posted on 06/26/2025 8:42:53 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Jim Noble
For the document setting forth the authority to use the autopen to approve a bill, there is the 30-page Memorandum Opinion for the Counsel to the President of July 7, 2005.

https://www.justice.gov/file/494411/dl?inline

Whether the President May Sign a Bill by Directing That His Signature Be Affixed to It

The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to such a bill, for example by autopen.

MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT

You have asked whether, having decided to approve a bill, the President may sign it, within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to it, for example by autopen. This memorandum confirms and elaborates upon our earlier advice that the President may sign a bill in this manner. See Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, from M. Edward Whelan III, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Signing of H.J. Res. 124 (Nov. 22, 2002) (“Whelan Memorandum”). We emphasize that we are not suggesting that the President may delegate the decision to approve and sign a bill, only that, having made this decision, he may direct a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to the bill.1

1 Practical reasons why the President might wish to proceed in this manner are apparent. For example, the President may be away from Washington, D.C., when Congress presents an enrolled bill to the White House, and he may wish it to take effect immediately (for example to prevent a government shutdown, to avoid lapses in authority, or to approve new authorities without delay).

[...]

Our understanding of the common law meaning of “sign” at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified and during the early years of the Republic, as well as the opinions of Attorneys General and the Department of Justice applying the principle of signatures, lead us to conclude that the President may sign a bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 without personally affixing his signature to it with his own hand. Rather, consistent with the principle of signatures, the President may sign by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to a bill that the President has approved and decided to sign.

We do not suggest that the President may delegate the decision whether to “approve[]” and “sign” a bill. U.S. Const. art. I, § 7, cl. 2. It has long been the view of the Executive Branch that the President may not delegate this decision. As Attorney General Cushing explained 150 years ago, “[The President] approves or disapproves of bills which have passed both Houses of Congress: that is a personal act of the President, like the vote of a Senator or Representative in Congress, not capable of performance by a Head of Department or any other person.” Relation of the President to the Executive Departments, 7 Op. Att’y Gen. 453, 465 (1855); see also Presidential Succession and Delegation in Case of Disability, 5 Op. O.L.C. 91, 94 (1981) (listing “[t]he power to approve or return legislation” among the “nondelegable functions of the President”); Memorandum for the Attorney General, from Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Delegation of Presidential Powers to the Vice President at 2 (June 22, 1961) (same); cf. Eber Bros. Wine & Liquor Corp. v. United States, 337 F.2d 624, 628 (Ct. Cl.) (“[The President] alone can approve or veto legislation; that authority cannot be delegated. Whatever the help a President may have, the ultimate decision must be his.”), cert. denied, 380 U.S. 950 (1964). And with respect to signing bills, this Office has likewise stated that “[t]here is no doubt that the responsibility is meant to be that of the President alone. He alone for the executive branch participates in the legislative process.” Wilkey Memorandum at 2. Thus, although the President generally has considerable discretion to delegate power conferred on him by the Constitution, see Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52, 117 (1926), or statute, see 3 U.S.C. §§ 301–303 (2000), we do not question the substantial authority supporting the view that the President must personally decide whether to approve and sign bills.

[...]

IV.

For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to such a bill, for example by autopen.*

HOWARD C. NIELSON, JR.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Counsel

* Editor’s Note: A footnote providing advice concerning implementation of the authority discussed in this opinion has been redacted.


31 posted on 06/26/2025 9:27:37 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: NoLibZone

Lookaway . . . lookaway . . . lookaway . . .


32 posted on 06/26/2025 9:29:22 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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Family Research Council Action Director Matt Carpenter:
<><> “initially, the autopen was limited to signing checks, correspondence, and other non-legislative tasks.
<><>In 2011, Obama authorized the autopen to sign an extension of the Patriot Act while he was in France.”
<><>“Now, autopen use has grown so that we have no idea to what cognitively deficient Biden used it for in official business as president.”

Biden also had connivers like Hunter Biden and drjill at his beck and call to invent new ways to use the handy autopen without the knowledge of we, the people.


33 posted on 06/27/2025 6:51:22 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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