Texas Senator Ted Cruz has argued some of the pardons and sentence commutations issued by President Joe Biden before he left office in January 2025 are likely legally "null and void" because they were signed off using an autopen en masse without Biden's explicit consent for each individual.

F ormer President Joe Biden, in an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday, said that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision during the last few weeks of his presidency -- including those made with an autopen.

Former President Joe Biden told the New York Times that he granted his staff the use of his autopen because he “had granted clemency to so many people. ” For the first time in an interview with the NYT,