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Carl Higbie didn’t mince words on his Newsmax program when he called Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons “fraudulent” and warned the country is staring at a Constitutional crisis if unelected aides were running the presidency by autopen. His fury captures why millions of conservatives smell something rotten when the machinery of power is allowed to operate behind closed doors without presidential accountability.
This week the Republican-led House Oversight Committee released a blistering report questioning whether autopen signatures were used on a variety of executive actions and whether those actions were properly authorized by the president himself. The committee’s findings demand answers about who was actually directing the pen—and whether that shadow authority rendered whole categories of actions illegitimate.
Conservatives aren’t simply reflexively hostile; we believe in the rule of law and in the peaceful transfer of power. If staffers were effectively signing the president’s name without his informed consent, that isn’t administrative convenience—that’s an assault on the Constitution and an affront to every American who expects their leaders to act lawfully and transparently. The Oversight Committee has formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate, and that request should be taken seriously.
The establishment media and liberal fact-checkers have leaned on old DOJ opinions and historical practice to argue autopens are not, by themselves, fatal to an action’s legality. There is precedent for mechanical signatures and memos saying a signature image can suffice, but legal technicalities miss the moral and practical core: did the president knowingly authorize these clemencies and decisions, or did aides usurp his authority? That distinction matters to every American who woke up to find major decisions made in their name without their consent.
This isn’t abstract legalese — real people and institutions are affected by these maneuvers. When high-profile clemencies and controversial pardons are stamped with a replica signature while questions swirl about whether the president understood what was being done, the public rightly demands forensic accountability, not spin and deflection. Republicans in Congress have begun to chase those answers, and the American people deserve a complete airing, not a cover-up.
If investigators find evidence that aides acted without lawful authority, that will be more than an embarrassment—it will be corruption disguised as administration. Patriots who love this country should insist on crisp standards: an oath taken by the president is not a ceremonial prop to be outsourced, and the public will not tolerate a two-tier system where the powerful get secret procedures while everyone else answers to the law.
This moment is a test of institutional backbone. Will the DOJ and the courts hold the powerful to account, or will another elite cover-up be quietly swept under the rug? Conservatives must keep the pressure on until every autopen question is answered and every illicit shortcut is exposed, because America’s Constitution is not a souvenir to be signed by proxy.
