It now turns out that some of former President Joe Biden's own aides were against the use of the infamous autopen for signing official presidential actions. 

Just the News reports that this revelation comes from documents released by the administration of President Donald Trump.

This is part of the Trump administration's findings in its investigation of the Biden administration's use of the autopen, rather than a hand-written signature, for official presidential orders.

John Solomon reports on shocking new documents that expose Biden's excessive use of the autopen. “ ...We’re seeing documents produced from the National Archives that show that the Biden White House lawyers believe that Joe Biden had an obligation to personally sign pardons." pic.twitter.com/E3X455a3zH

— Just the News (@JustTheNews) September 5, 2025

They knew it was wrong!

Just the News, for its report, specifically focused on the use of autopen for pardons. There has been many questions raised about whether these pardons are even constitutional.

The outlet reports:

Internal memos obtained by Just the News show President Joe Biden’s aides believed at the beginning of his administration that he had an obligation to personally sign official presidential actions, including pardons, and chronicle how the former president later outsourced clemency decisions to then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

But, of course, he did not. Rather, he went against these recommendations, particularly towards the end of his administration, when he handed out a number of controversial pardons and even "pre-emptive" pardons.

The Washington Examiner quotes the memo as stating:

This memorandum proposes general guidelines for which documents should be hand-signed by YOU and which documents may have YOUR signature affixed by use of the Autopen. In addition, for documents that we recommend to be signed by Autopen, this memorandum proposes narrow categories of routine, high-volume documents that may be approved by one or more of YOUR senior advisors and executed with the Autopen on YOUR behalf. This memorandum provides a proposed update of prior Autopen guidelines that YOU approved during Transition.

The outlet goes on to state that the document "lists 'pardon letters' under the category of documents for which Biden should not use the autopen."

He wasn't even there!

There's more in the memos as well.

Just the News reports:

The National Archives and Records Administration told the Trump White House Counsel's office that "we did not find specific meeting notes that clearly mention or note that the President was present" for any of the four meetings, according to the documents reviewed by Just the News.

These were meetings in relation to the use of the presidential pardon power.

The big question in all of this is whether the Trump administration, at the end of its investigation, is going to legally challenge some or all of the actions that the Biden administration signed using autopen.

We'll have to see.