调查重点在于拜登是否在其任期最后几个月亲自批准了每一项赦免和减刑
作者：格雷格·韦纳（Greg Wehner）、大卫·斯庞特（David Spunt）
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月5日 美国东部时间晚上8:25
美国司法部（DOJ）正在继续调查前总统乔·拜登在其任期最后几个月使用自动签署仪（autopen）的情况——重点关注赦免和减刑行动——尽管一名高级官员表示拜登不太可能面临刑事指控。
一名司法部高级官员告诉福克斯新闻，自动签署仪调查仍在进行中，尚未结束，调查人员正在审查拜登政府最后几个月采取的赦免行动。
不过，该官员也指出，在任总统使用自动签署仪是”既定法律”。
正在审查的问题是，自动签署仪的使用是否违反了法律，具体而言，拜登是否亲自批准了赦免和减刑名单上的每一个名字。
“这类案件很棘手。行政特权问题会发挥作用，”该官员表示。
该官员还指出，任何潜在起诉的目标不太可能是拜登。
“很难想象[拜登]会因赦免权而承担刑事责任，”司法部高级官员表示。
该官员指出，前总统不太可能面临指控的一个原因是2024年最高法院的一项裁决，该裁决最初涉及现任总统唐纳德·特朗普，但也适用于拜登。
“我们得出结论，根据我们的分权宪法结构，总统权力的性质要求前总统在其任期内的官方行为享有一定的刑事豁免权，”最高法院在2024年的特朗普诉美国案中裁定。
“至少在总统行使其核心宪法权力方面，这种豁免权必须是绝对的。”
知情人士告诉福克斯新闻数字版，美国检察官让娜·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）的团队继续审查拜登政府对自动签署仪的依赖，这与《纽约时报》最近报道的调查已暂停的说法相矛盾。
特朗普推动对自动签署仪争议采取后果措施，在社交媒体上指控助手非法使用该工具，并暗示拜登可能面临伪证指控。
拜登驳斥了这些指控，去年在一份声明中表示他亲自指导了相关决定。
“让我明确一点：我在总统任期内做出了这些决定，”拜登说。”我决定了赦免、行政命令、立法和公告。任何暗示我没有做这些决定的说法都是荒谬和虚假的。”
众议院监督委员会聚焦于拜登的赦免行动，包括他总统任期最后几天对家人的五项有争议的赦免，理由是缺乏”同期文件”证实拜登直接下令赦免。
委员会要求司法部调查”前总统拜登的所有行政行动，特别是赦免行动，以评估是否必须采取法律行动撤销前总统实际上并未亲自采取的任何行动。”
福克斯新闻数字版记者阿什利·奥利弗（Ashley Oliver）对此报道有贡献。
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386159125112
DOJ continues Biden autopen probe despite former president unlikely to face charges
Investigation focuses on whether Biden personally approved each pardon and commutation in final months of his administration
By Greg Wehner, David Spunt
Fox News
Published March 5, 2026 8:25pm EST
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is continuing its investigation into former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen in the final months of his administration — focusing on pardons and commutations — though a senior official said Biden is unlikely to face criminal exposure.
A senior DOJ official told Fox News the autopen investigation is ongoing and not closed, adding investigators are reviewing clemency actions taken in the final months of the Biden administration.
The official also pointed out, however, that the use of an autopen by a sitting president is “established law.”
The issue under review is whether the autopen was used in violation of the law, specifically, whether Biden personally approved each name included on pardon and commutation lists.
“These types of cases are tough. Executive privilege issues come into play,” the official said.
What is also clear, the official indicated, is that the target of any potential prosecution would not likely be Biden.
“It’s hard to imagine how [Biden] could be criminally liable for pardon power,” the senior DOJ official said.
The official noted that one reason the former president would be unlikely to face charges stems from a 2024 Supreme Court ruling that originally involved current President Donald Trump but would also apply to Biden.
“We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power requires that a former President have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office,” the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States in 2024.
“At least with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute.”
Sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s team continues to review the Biden White House’s reliance on an autopen, contradicting a recent New York Times report that indicated the investigation had been paused.
Trump has pushed for consequences over the autopen controversy, alleging on social media that aides acted unlawfully in its use and raising the prospect of perjury charges against Biden.
Biden has rejected those claims, saying in a statement last year he personally directed the decisions in question.
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” Biden said. “I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
The House Oversight Committee has homed in on Biden’s clemency actions, including five controversial pardons for family members in the final days of his presidency, citing what it described as a lack of “contemporaneous documentation” confirming that Biden directly ordered the pardons.
The committee asked the DOJ to investigate “all of former President Biden’s executive actions, particularly clemency actions, to assess whether legal action must be taken to void any action that the former president did not, in fact, take himself.”
Fox News Digital’s Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386159125112
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