| Justice Dept., Under Pressure From Trump, Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden |
| Michael S. Schmidt, Devlin Barrett, and Alan Feuer, The New York Times |
| After scrutinizing whether former President Joe “Biden and his aides broke the law in using the autopen to sign presidential documents,” Trump’s Justice Department determined it “was ultimately unable to move forward with making a case,” according to The New York Times. Three unnamed people who were “briefed on the matter” told the Times that “[i]nvestigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen.” And it “was also unclear whether investigators should focus their attention on the actions of Mr. Biden’s aides or on Mr. Biden himself, given that the United States Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling in 2024, granted broad immunity to presidents for most acts undertaken as part of their official duties.” |
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