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America is waking up to a scandal that should alarm every patriot: the revelation that dozens of last-minute clemency orders were issued under President Biden’s name using an autopen has ignited a fight over whether those acts were legitimate or nothing more than fraudulent paper signed by aides. Carl Higbie and other conservative voices have rightly pushed this into the national conversation, arguing that when the executive branch’s most solemn powers can be executed by a machine without clear, contemporaneous presidential authorization, the republic itself is at stake.
President Trump and leading Republicans have publicly declared these pardons void and demanded immediate investigations, saying autopen-signed documents can’t be the last word if they were issued without the president’s actual consent. That political and legal pressure is not theater; it’s a necessary check when the people’s trust in the oath of the presidency is in doubt, and Republicans from the White House down to the Hill are calling for the Justice Department to get involved.
There is a legal debate worth having, because the history shows autopen use is not unprecedented and the Justice Department has long acknowledged mechanical signatures in some contexts. But the crucial conservative point is simple: legality isn’t just technicality — it’s about whether the president personally authorized life-and-death or liberty-and-security decisions for Americans. If aides were running a stamp of the president’s name while making decisions he did not know about, that is a constitutional affront to the separation of powers and the people who entrusted him with that office.
The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has already produced a report questioning the legitimacy of numerous executive acts and calling for further scrutiny, and that alone demands accountability. Hardworking Americans deserve to know whether their laws and pardons were carried out by the elected commander in chief or by staffers wielding a machine, and the Oversight findings demand answers, not excuses.
Make no mistake: this isn’t merely partisan outrage — it is about restoring the rule of law and making sure no president can deputize a bureaucratic assembly line to do what the Constitution assigns to a single person. Conservatives should demand rigorous investigations, transparent records, and, where evidence shows forgery or unauthorized action, prosecutions that are evenhanded and thorough. The American people will not accept a two-tier system of justice where connected insiders are shielded while everyday citizens face the full force of the law.
Legal scholars and analysts caution that overturning pardons in court will be difficult unless clear proof emerges that the autopen was used without the president’s consent — and that distinction matters. That reality doesn’t excuse a cover-up or slow the demand for a full accounting; rather, it raises the bar for investigators to produce the direct evidence conservatives have been promised and deserve to see.
Patriots must stay vigilant: keep pressing Congress and the Justice Department for document disclosures, sworn testimony, and a criminal referral if the facts warrant it. We should be loud and unambiguous in defense of the Constitution — insisting that no president, past or future, turns the nation’s highest powers into a bureaucratic rubber stamp. The fight now is to make sure the rules of the republic mean something again for the millions of Americans who work, sacrifice, and believe in equal justice under law.
