Watchdog finds 'no evidence' Biden knew of crucial climate EOs, demands answers on who signed autopen

FIRST ON FOX: A pro-energy radical is renewing its telephone for an probe into implicit fractional a twelve Biden medication enforcement actions related to clime that it believes should beryllium deemed null and void owed to them being signed by an autopen without immoderate nationalist remark from erstwhile President Joe Biden confirming his cognition of them. 

Power the Future, a nonprofit enactment that advocates for American vigor jobs, reviewed 8 Biden enforcement orders that it says were important shifts successful home vigor argumentation and said it recovered nary grounds of the president speaking astir immoderate of them publicly, raising concerns that the orders were signed by autopen and that helium was not alert of them. 

"These are not obscure bureaucratic memos; these were foundational shifts successful American vigor policy, yet not erstwhile did Joe Biden talk astir them publicly," Daniel Turner, laminitis and enforcement manager of Power The Future, told Fox News Digital. 

The enforcement orders reviewed by Power the Future see an Arctic drilling ban successful 2023, a 2021 enforcement order committing the national authorities to net-zero emissions by 2050, an executive order mandating "clean energy" AI centers and an offshore drilling ban executive order soon earlier leaving bureau successful 2025. 

PRO-ENERGY GROUP URGES AG BONDI TO PROBE BIDEN'S AUTOPEN ON CRUCIAL DECISIONS THAT DEVASTATED INDUSTRY

Then-President Joe Biden listens during a sojourn to the D.C. Emergency Operations Center successful Washington, D.C. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Finding nary grounds of Biden publically speaking astir the enforcement orders connected climate, Power the Future sent letters this week to the DOJ, EPA, DOI, DOE, on with the House and Senate Oversight Committees, calling for an probe to find who made the decisions, drafted the enforcement orders and yet signed them. 

"In airy of the increasing grounds that actions purportedly taken by the erstwhile president whitethorn not person been approved oregon signed by him, but alternatively promulgated by a tiny coterie of advisers successful his sanction without his cognition oregon implicit his signature utilizing an ‘autopen,’ the request for legislature entree to accusation has grown successful value with these revelations," the missive to GOP House Oversight Chair James Comer states. 

"Congress deserves to cognize however oregon whether these enforcement actions were authorized, and whether the erstwhile President was alert of specified orders earlier they were implemented by the national bureaucracy. Were these actions taken connected behalf of the president and purporting to execute his authorization undertaken with the president’s cognition and approach? It appears incumbent upon Congress to inquire, astir each parties progressive successful these actions, who instructed them to bash what, when."

WHAT IS AN AUTOPEN? THE SIGNING DEVICE AT THE HEART OF TRUMP'S ATTACKS ON BIDEN PARDONS

Then-President Joe Biden speaks astatine a quality league connected the last time of the NATO acme successful Washington connected July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Biden’s bureau for remark but did not perceive backmost by property time.

The statesmanlike autopen has been a taxable of speech with Republicans successful caller weeks and months arsenic questions proceed astir Biden’s intelligence acuity during his presidency, peculiarly the past fewer years, which person faced accrued scrutiny aft the merchandise of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s publication "Original Sin."

"Power The Future remains acrophobic that cardinal policies of large economical and nationalist information value directed by the White House during the Biden medication whitethorn person been undertaken without statesmanlike consciousness and approval, but possibly alternatively by a tiny coterie of staff," the missive states.

"Although this likelihood has go much evident by claims made successful a caller publication titled Original Sin, those claims simply enactment accusation that had already emerged."

An autopen is simply a instrumentality that physically holds a pen and is programmed to replicate a person’s signature. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel determined successful 2005 that the president is permitted to usage an autopen to motion bills into law, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a ruling successful February that said the lack of "a penning does not equate to impervious that a commutation did not occur."

In March, President Donald Trump claimed that Biden’s pardons of lawmakers who served connected the House Select Committee to analyse the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, and others, are "VOID," alleging that they had been signed via an autopen and that Biden did not adjacent cognize astir them.

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Despite Trump's concerns implicit the validity of Biden's pardons owed to the alleged usage of an autopen, law student Jonathan Turley told Fox News Digital that the likelihood of successfully legally challenging them successful tribunal are "vanishingly low." 

"Presidents are allowed to usage the autopen, and courts volition not presume a dead-hand conspiracy," Turley said. 

Power the Future’s missive references House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who successful January shared that Biden, during a meeting, appeared to forget that helium signed an bid to intermission LNG exports.

A report published by an limb of the Heritage Foundation claimed that the bulk of authoritative documents signed by Biden were allegedly an autopen signature.

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Then-former President Donald Trump speaks astatine a run municipality hallway astatine the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

"During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of dollars were funneled towards favored greenish projects, portion the American fossil fuels manufacture was punished, and determination is nary grounds that Biden ordered it, directed it, oregon was adjacent alert it was happening successful his name," Turner told Fox News Digital, adding that the American radical "deserve to know" who was signing the enforcement orders "behind closed doors."

"This autopen ungraded is grounds that these greenish EOs are invalid, and the instigators should beryllium thoroughly investigated by the DOJ for violating the spot of the American radical and perpetuating a large fraud connected the nation."

Fox News Digital's Diana Stancy contributed to this report.