Overview
- House Oversight Republicans released a roughly 90–100 page report asserting some executive actions signed by autopen, especially clemencies, lacked proof of Joe Biden’s authorization and should be treated as invalid.
- The report says 32 of 51 clemency warrants bore digital copies of Biden’s signature without contemporaneous documentation tying decisions to the president, though the committee itself cannot void presidential acts.
- Chairman James Comer referred former White House physician Kevin O’Connor and aides Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal to the Justice Department, and asked the D.C. Board of Medicine to review O’Connor.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi said her team has initiated a review of the administration’s autopen use and acknowledged receiving the committee’s referrals.
- Biden and House Democrats reject the allegations and cite a 2005 DOJ opinion allowing autopen use with presidential authorization, while legal scholars note that undoing pardons would be exceptionally difficult and no clemencies have been invalidated.