Shortly before he left the White House, Joe Biden granted pardons to dozens of people, including a number of his family members, while also commuting the sentences of hundreds of others. But some conservative experts in law are now questioning the legality of those pardons and commutations with the possibility of setting out to void them.
On March 6, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey seized the attention of millions of conservatives as he posted on X (Twitter) that the Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to investigate whether Joe Biden was mentally well enough to knowingly approve the policies – orders, pardons, and all that – or whether he was taken advantage of by his handlers.
https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1897388657557885403
Attached to Bailey’s X post was his letter, dated March 4, sent to the DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz. With the subject line “Legality of presidential action in light of President Biden’s mental decline,” the letter requested IG Horowitz to launch a full investigation into Joe Biden’s mental decline in relation to his actions taken during his final days in the office. Bailey wrote in the letter that under the 25th Amendment Biden’s mental decline warranted succession of power but if his staffers exploited it to issue presidential orders under his name and signature, then those orders ought to be reckoned null and void.
Bailey also cited a few examples of Biden’s proven cognitive decline well before he was pressured out of the 2024 presidential race based on his mental deterioration. He wrote that such an investigation was important so that we could determine who really was running the country when Joe Biden was in the White House as a president in name only.
This concern about Biden being used as a dummy by his handlers gained steam earlier this week when the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found that Biden’s manual signature on his letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race was a little different from his autopen signatures on his executive orders. The Gateway Pundit also noted the finding by the Oversight Project that six criminals were pardoned by Biden’s autopen on December 30, 2022, while Biden was vacationing and golfing in St. Croix.
Among Biden’s pardons, the most infamous one remains that of his son Hunter Biden, a convicted felon who was set to be sentenced in the second week of December 2024. But on the first day of December, Joe Biden pardoned his son for any and all crimes that he had committed or may have committed in 10 years, from early 2014 to the end of 2024. Biden had lied to the public on this issue by stating he would not pardon his son if convicted.
On his last day in the White House, Biden pardoned a number of his other family members for any offenses they may have committed from the beginning of 2014 to the date of the pardon. It is not clear what crimes Biden’s family members were protected against via this pardon but given his brother’s involvement in the financial scandals linked to payments from foreign countries, it indicates a passive admission of guilt.