The news follows a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report on autopen use in the Biden White House.
The U.S. Department of Justice will review the Biden administration’s use of an autopen for thousands of pardons, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed Tuesday.
The news of an official probe comes hours after the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a 91-page report that alleged President Joe Biden’s staff hid his declining mental state and used his official signature to pardon 4,245 people.
“We look forward to working alongside [the committee] to deliver accountability for the American people,” Bondi stated in a post on X.
My team has already initiated a review of the Biden administration’s reported use of autopen for pardons.@RepJamesComer’s new information is extremely helpful, and his leadership on this issue is invaluable. We’ll continue working with @GOPoversight to deliver accountability…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) October 28, 2025
The congressional investigation, led by Chairman James Comer, details the environment within the Biden White House that committee members alleged led to the issuance of thousands of pardons for family members, COVID-19-related decision makers, congressmembers, and thousands of others.
“The Committee has investigated whether senior Biden White House officials possibly exercised the authority of the former president or intentionally concealed President Biden’s rapidly worsening mental and physical state,” the committee stated in the report. “The Committee has found evidence to indicate they did both.”
Members of the former president’s family, members of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, retired Gen. Mark Milley, and Dr. Anthony Fauci were among the most controversial pardons of Biden’s presidency that were made in his final days through the use of an autopen.
He also commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals.
The committee recommended the DOJ investigate all of Biden’s executive actions, particularly clemency actions, to assess whether legal action is warranted to void any of the actions he did not take himself.
“As President Biden declined, his staff abused the autopen and lax chain-of-command policy to effect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were in fact authorized,” the report alleged.
Comer commented on the report Tuesday.
“The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history,” Comer posted on X.
He also asked the DOJ to conduct a thorough review of autopen-related actions and scrutinize key Biden aides who claimed their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before Congress, declining to answer questions for fear of prosecution.
The review would be the second investigation into the autopen pardons. In May, President Donald Trump appointed attorney Ed Martin to examine the pardons Biden issued just before leaving office.
The Bidens were contacted for comment and did not immediately respond.
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