Well, so the New York Times on July 13 wrote a major story that says Biden says he made the clemency decisions that were recorded with auto pen. And you and I talked about it in an earlier podcast that The Department of Justice has an opinion that it issued a number of years ago, the Office of Legal Counsel, about whether you can use an auto pen for presidential signatures. whether that's a presidential signature on an executive order, a presidential signature on a law that is being signed into law, or a presidential signature on a pardon. (01:22–01:33)
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Asserts that the Department of Justice has an opinion on using an auto pen for presidential signatures.
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