Former President Joe Biden defended his use of an autopen during a recent interview, shedding light on his administration’s rationale for the controversial use of the technology.
The interview with the New York Times was centered around his use of an autopen during the last pardons that he made during the end of his administration.
In his final weeks in office, Biden granted clemency and pardoned more than 1,500 individuals, in what the White House described at the time as the largest single-day act of clemency by a US president.
Speaking to the Times on Thursday, Biden said that he “made every decision” on his own.
“We’re talking about [granting clemency to] a whole lot of people,” the Democrat said.
However, the Times reported that Biden “did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people,” according to the former president and his aides.
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