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Senior officials in the Biden White House were concerned about the former President’s pardons and use of autopens, Axios claims on the basis of leaked emails.
President Biden granted clemency to more individuals—4,245 people—than any other president in US history.
More than 95% of those pardons were granted in the final 14 weeks of his presidency, and the vast majority were signed with autopen, meaning the President did not have to sign the pardons himself.
President Biden’s last-minute pardons of his family also used autopen.
Axios reports that “Several senior Justice Department officials raised objections about the clemency process with the White House Counsel’s office, which was led by Ed Siskel. He helped steer the clemency process in the administration’s final months and did not respond to a request for comment.
“On Jan. 17, just three days before leaving office, Biden granted 2,490 commutations — the most ever by a president on a single day. Biden said they were for people ‘convicted of nonviolent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences.’
“The next day, senior Justice Department ethics attorney Bradley Weinsheimer penned a scathing memo stating that calling the clemency recipients nonviolent was ‘untrue, or at least misleading.’”
Weinsheimer went on to note that, despite repeated requests, he and others were “not afforded a reasonable opportunity to vet and provide input on those you were considering.”
One of the individuals granted a pardon pled guilty to murdering a mother and her two-year-old daughter.
“I have no idea if the president was aware of these backgrounds when making clemency decisions,” Weinsheimer wrote.
Other Department of Justice officials also wrote emails querying or complaining about the clemency process, including “interference” with inmates on death row, many of whom had not requested clemency.
Axios continues: “Biden White House staff secretary Stef Feldman, who was in charge of the West Wing paper flow, repeatedly asked for more details and confirmation of the president’s intentions with the autopen — including when it came to clemency, according to several emails Axios obtained.
“’When did we get [Biden’s] approval of this?’ she asked on Jan. 7, after being asked to use the autopen for an executive order.”
Biden’s use of autopen is now the subject of a Congressional investigation centering around his mental faculties and personal responsibility.
In July, in a rare interview Biden told The New York Times, “I made every decision.”
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