Joe Biden

The Justice Department says its review of President Biden’s use of an autopen to sign late-term pardons and commutations is ongoing, led by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s team and focused on whether the autopen meant Biden personally approved each clemency, but officials say criminal charges are unlikely given the pardon power and the 2024 Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States. The inquiry follows former President Trump’s June 4, 2025 public directive to investigate — which he later conceded lacked evidence — and has drawn intense political scrutiny and accusations that it is part of a broader, politically driven pattern of probes.