Thursday, March 05, 2026

DOJ Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden

Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington were unable to build a case, underscoring the department's increasing inability to follow through on the president's desire to indict his rivals.

Posted by qcp at 03:31 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

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BREAKING: DOJ shelves investigation into Biden's autopen use after it failed to find an applicable criminal statute, source says.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Mar 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM

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More: The department's failure to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden and his aides is the latest example of its increasing inability to follow through on Mr. Trump's demands and bring indictments against those he wants to be criminally targeted. Some of those cases were rejected by grand juries, some were rejected by judges and some, like the autopen case, were abandoned by prosecutors.

But the fact that prosecutors even pursued the matter to begin with reflects the degree to which Mr. Trump has sought to use the levers of government to undermine Mr. Biden's presidency by seizing on an unsubstantiated theory: that the pardons Mr. Biden issued in his final months in office were invalid because he did not have the mental capacity to consent to them.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2026-03-04 03:22 PM

Idiots

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-04 03:25 PM

Imagine how stupid you'd have to be to think anything illegal happened here.

MAGA, you don't have to imagine.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-04 03:48 PM

Departments like Justice (and others) were allowed by tradition to operate MOSTLY outside of the President's direct control and influence for good reason. The fact it isn't legislated is a problem.

I am not naive enough to believe Presidents didn't impact them and their decisions but they didn't do the kind of nutty things we are seeing in this Regime.

#4 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2026-03-04 04:30 PM

Maga maroons are in the middle of "finding out".

That it is really really hard to prosecute anyone (especially a former president) for the random idiotic musings, incoherent ramblings and croaking of a Mr Toad who still thinks he is the King and boss of us all.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-05 04:14 PM

No surprise. This regime is very fond of simply throwing feces at the wall to see what sticks.

#6 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-03-05 04:34 PM

@#6 ... No surprise. This regime is very fond of simply throwing feces at the wall to see what sticks. ...

Pres Trump's DoJ tried to bring charges against Mr Comey for lying to Congress under oath. Last I heard, the case was dismissed because of a lack of evidence.

OK, with that in mind, let me ask of Pres trump's DoJ might bring a case against fmr Sec Noem for possibly lying to Congress under oath?

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide's Role in DHS Contracts
www.propublica.org

... Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffers contradict her testimony. ...

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked Noem whether Lewandowski has "a role in approving contracts" at DHS. Noem responded with a flat denial: "No."

But internal DHS records reviewed by ProPublica contradict Noem's Senate testimony. The records show Lewandowski personally approved a multimillion-dollar equipment contract at the agency last summer.

That was not a one-off. Lewandowski has approved numerous contracts at DHS and often needs to sign off on large ones before any money goes out the door, the current and former department employees said. ...



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 06:46 PM

Everyone in the "administration of dunces" has lied to Congress.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-05 06:57 PM

@#8 ... Everyone in the "administration of dunces" has lied to Congress. ...

That may or may not be so.

However, does a possible onslaught of alleged crimes automatically negate any investigation and/or indictment into any one of those alleged crimes?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 07:07 PM

We should bottle Trumper Tears and sell them back to China.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-06 07:17 PM

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