Legal scholar Jonathan Turley has warned that it is very unlikely that former President Joe Biden’s presidential pardons will be overturned due to an autopen signature.
It comes amid growing concerns about presidential documents being signed by White House handlers using an autopen while Biden was in a cognitively diminished state.
Autopen signatures are automatically produced by a machine, as opposed to an authentic, handwritten autograph.
The use of an autopen means documents could have been signed without Biden being present, or even aware, as his signature was applied.
The scandal has led to speculation that important documents signed with an autopen, such as Biden’s final hour pardons, could be overturned.
However, Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, warned that the chances of overturning executive orders due to the use of autopen are “vanishingly low.”
In a post on X, Turley wrote:
“Many are suggesting that the Biden pardons may now be challenged in light of the disclosures of Biden’s use of an autopen.
“The chances of such challenges succeeding are vanishingly low.
“Presidents are allowed to use the autopen and courts will not presume a dead-hand conspiracy.”
“Many of these were high-profile pardons, including for