Trump Vows To Nullify 92% Of Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Executive Orders

Biden has rejected those allegations and said he was personally responsible for every pardon issued in the final days of his presidency

Presidents are believed to have used versions of the autopen for more than 200 years, dating back to Thomas Jefferson, who obtained one after it was patented in 1803, according to the Shapell Manuscript Foundation.

Gerald Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama are all known to have used the device.

Obama became the first president to use an autopen to sign legislation in 2011

In 2005, during the Bush administration, the Justice Department concluded the autopen is legal.

“A person may sign a document by directing that his signature be affixed to it by another,” a DOJ memo said. Legal scholars have also noted that the Constitution does not require presidents to personally sign pardons.