Overview

• Senator Rand Paul said Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer could subpoena Jill Biden and Anthony Fauci as part of the ongoing investigation into Biden’s autopen-signed pardons.
• Paul challenged the legitimacy of Fauci’s pardon on the grounds that it was issued by mechanical signature rather than hand-signed by the president.
• Republican investigators have subpoenaed former White House staffers and reviewed testimony indicating autopen operators reported to an aide to the first lady, not to Biden himself.
• Several witnesses have invoked their Fifth Amendment rights during House Oversight hearings, while others have complied with subpoenas and testified.
• The White House maintains that autopen use has been legally validated by past DOJ opinions and personally approved by Biden, but GOP lawmakers are pushing for a court ruling on the pardons’ validity.