BREAKING NEWS — GET RID OF THE AUTO-PEN
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Professor Toto uses controversy surrounding Joe Biden's late-term clemency decisions to argue for restricting presidential use of the autopen. The article points to internal DOJ concerns about the characterization and vetting of certain clemency recipients and to a subsequent DOJ inquiry into Biden's decision-making and the use of mechanically affixed signatures. It contends that the fundamental issue is not simply whether autopen technology can legally reproduce a president's signature, but whether consequential exercises of presidential power can reliably be shown to represent the president's own decisions. The proposed remedy is a prohibition on autopen signatures for substantive governmental acts, retaining the device only for ceremonial correspondence.
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Personal accountability in the exercise of presidential authority. This is a constitutional/political principle in the article rather than a biblical doctrine.
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