Why Biden’s Autopen Actions Are Null and Void

 From Amuse on X:

Every executive order, pardon, or proclamation carries the force of law only because it represents the president’s own act of decision. The Framers understood this link between consent and command as the essence of executive accountability. The president may consult, deliberate, or delegate preparation of documents, but he alone must decide and affirm. His signature is not a mere formality; it is the constitutional manifestation of his will. To remove the president’s mind from the moment of authorization is to sever the act from its legitimacy.

This is precisely what the Oversight Committee’s investigation has revealed. In case after case, Biden’s aides employed an autopen to sign executive actions without any documented, written, or digital evidence showing the president’s contemporaneous consent. No secure log of approvals, no voice confirmation, no physical presence. The White House’s own counsel could not demonstrate that the president had even been briefed before some of these documents were executed. Such practices do not merely stretch the boundaries of legality, they obliterate them.

The Constitution’s Article II vests “the executive Power” in the president, not in his aides, surrogates, or a pen operated by staff. The personal nature of this power is reinforced by the presidential oath, in which the president swears to “faithfully execute the Office of President.” That oath binds the office to the individual. No device can stand in for deliberation, and no staffer can channel another man’s judgment. When the act of execution becomes automated, government itself slides toward automation, unaccountable, impersonal, and dangerously opaque. (Read more.)