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The release of audio recordings of former President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur have intensified criticism of the administration's use of an autopen on official presidential orders and pardons. The damning tapes, which bring Biden's alarming mental decline into sharp relief, were kept under wraps by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland. Now that Biden's cognitive problems have been bared, some are calling for Garland to face prosecution for rejecting Congressional demands to release the tapes when he ran the Department of Justice (DOJ). "Key decisions made in the final days of the Biden presidency, including using autopens...

President Donald Trump has said that Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 attack are "void, vacant and of no further effect." In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen—a device that replicates a person's signature. Trump also warned members of the former January 6 House select committee that they would now be "subject to investigation at the highest level." Biden issued last-minute preemptive pardons to members of the January 6 committee to prevent Trump from...

Who was behind this Biden autopen? Last week Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the Justice Department to investigate whether White House staffers exploited Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and issued far-left orders at the end of his presidency without his knowledge. “I am demanding the DOJ investigate whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval,” Bailey wrote. “If in fact Biden’s staffers were exploiting his mental decline, those orders are null and void,” he added. Andrew Bailey cited Joe Biden’s decision to commute the federal death sentences of nearly 40 prisoners...

Appearing on Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, Lindsey Graham described himself to host Dana Bash as someone who is "all-in" for President Trump and wants him "to win." So it was striking to hear such a strong Trump supporter also candidly and firmly express his disapproval of Trump's grant of across-the-board pardons and commutations for all J6 participants. But that wasn't good enough for Bash. When Graham also criticized Biden for having commuted the sentence of a man who killed two FBI agents and pardoned multiple family members despite having promised not to do so, and criticized...

Federal judges in the District of Columbia are expressing disdain for President Trump’s J6 pardons and are threatening to resist DOJ requests to dismiss open cases. It should come as no surprise that Washington, D.C. judges who have presided over the prosecutions of Trump supporters strongly object to the pardons and commutations made by the President on his first day in office. Their outrage came after the Trump DOJ requested that the judges dismiss cases that remain open.. Trump’s pardons, issued on January 20, were among his first official actions in office. They granted unconditional clemency to over 1,500 J6...

Joe Biden issued a series of pardons as he prepared to leave office, including pardons for his family members. Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who requested a pardon, did not receive one. In a statement, Jackson expressed disappointment and criticized the Biden administration for failing to address what he called the "felonization" of Americans who have served their sentences. CHICAGO - Former President Joe Biden issued a number of pardons on Monday before leaving the White House, including for his own family. However, he did not grant former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.'s request. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Response What they're saying...

President Donald Trump has given a cryptic warning that Joe Biden should have pardoned himself before he left office. Trump made the ominous comment in his first Oval Office interview since his swearing-in on Monday. Fox News star Sean Hannity asked Trump his thoughts on Biden's decision to give last-minute preemptive pardons to members of his own family, and some of the Republican president's political enemies. 'And you know what the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is - he didn't give himself a pardon,' Trump pointed out. 'And you look at it, it all had to do with him,'...

What To Know Fauci responded to the preemptive pardon in a statement reported by CNN's Jim Acosta. "It feels good and I'm grateful to the president for doing it," he told Acosta. "I have done nothing wrong. Certainly nothing criminal. No grounds at all." Fauci said the White House told him in December that Biden was considering a preemptive pardon, but that he did not know it was actually happening "until last night," Acosta posted on X, formerly Twitter. Newsweek reached out to Fauci via Georgetown University for comment

In today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson assess the promises made by President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech, from combatting DEI to securing the border, and the messages between the lines. “Here's my point: Trump was blunt, maybe even crude. He said he was going to eventually — we would have the Panama Canal. He was going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the ‘Gulf of America,’ and people were kind of hysterical, in their reactions. But it's the way he said it and his directness and his candor and his honesty that bothered...

The Biden administration is formally considering commuting the sentence of the convicted felon who stole and leaked incoming President Trump's tax records along with those of thousands of other taxpayers, in the biggest tax data heist in U.S. history.

We all hate injustice, and so does God. The Psalmist wrote, “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.” And in Isaiah 10, we have this: “Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of My people of their right.” Injustice has always been a part of life in this world, ever since the fall of man in the Garden, but in this nation, never so blatant and wicked as the...

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would direct the Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty on the heels of President Biden commuting the sentence of roughly all inmates on federal death row to life without parole. “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” he wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. “We will be a Nation of Law and order again!”Mr. Biden announced Monday he’s stopping the execution of 37 men — all of whom were...

(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of his son Hunter may give President-elect Donald Trump a blank check to issue his own round of pardons upon taking office. Trump said as much in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press when he vowed to pardon a number of people convicted in connection to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan.. 6, 2021, saying he'd look at each case individually. “These people are living in hell,” he told NBC's Kristen Welker, noting that some had been in jail for three years and promising pardons on...