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.

In his final hours, former US President Biden's chief of staff authorized an autopen to sign high-profile pardons, including those for Fauci and Milley. Trump has criticized this, alleging Biden was unaware of the signings and concealing cognitive decline.