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     A senior Justice Department official in the Biden administration previously warned that thousands of last-minute pardons issued with a mechanical signature (autopen) could be legally flawed or, at the very least, be seen as “questionable.”  The big question is can they be reversed?

     According to the Pew Research Center, former President Joe Biden granted 4,245 acts of clemency during his term — more than any previous U.S. president. This total includes 80 pardons, along with thousands of commutations, remissions, and respites.  In an interview with The New York Times, Biden also acknowledged that he did not personally review the names of those he pardoned; instead, his staff presented him with broad “categories” of cases for approval.

     “Well, first of all, there’s categories. So, you know, they aren’t reading names off for the commutations for those who had been [on] home confinement for, during the pandemic,” Biden said. “So, the only things that really, we read off names for were, for example, you know, was I, what was I going to do about, for example, Mark Milley? Mark’s a good guy. We know how vindictive Trump is, and I’ve no doubt they would have gone after Mark for no good reason,” Biden said, pausing as he searched for the right words.

     In the same interview, Biden also defended his administration’s use of the autopen to sign official documents. “The autopen is, you know, is legal. As you know, other presidents used it, including Trump. But the point is that, you know, we’re talking about a whole lot of people,” the former Democrat president added.However, the Department of Justice recently released an old email, dated January 18th, to the Oversight Project — an investigative organization dedicated to “keeping a watchful eye on the future of America”‘ In the email, Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer criticized a specific warrant, signed using the Biden administration’s autopen, which granted pardons to hundreds of violent criminals during the president’s final days in office.

     The concern centered on the fact that the descriptions of the pardoned offenses were, according to Weinsheimer, “too vague,” which he warned could potentially invalidate the commutations. He also argued in the email that the DOJ was blocked from vetting the clemency candidates, citing “voluminous objections” from victims’ families regarding some pardons.

Some examples of violent criminals granted clemency by the Biden administration are Russell McIntosh, who fatally shot a woman and her 2-year-old child after she threatened to expose his drug-dealing business. Others in a category deemed “highly problematic'” by the Biden DOJ included several violent gang leaders and criminals convicted of murder, kidnapping, or rape. Nonetheless, such offenders were either given shortened prison sentences or now freely walk the streets — thanks to the Democrat president. Biden did not offer any clarification to Weinsheimer in response to his January 18th email.