The president possesses the power to pardon, but there is no specification (unlike for signing of bills) that this pardon be in writing,
At the beginning of each administration, the White House sends a sample of the President’s signature to the Office of the Federal Register, which uses it to create the graphic image for all Presidential Documents published in the Federal Register,
The law undoubtedly is, that when a pardon is complete, there is no power to revoke it, any more than there is power to revoke any other completed act.”
Even under Trump’s conception of unlimited presidential power, a future president could undo anything he did – and I assume he would not be happy with that,
Pardons are final and irrevocable,
Presidents historically have not personally signed grants of pardons for every individual they granted clemency to,
The DOJ opinion does give Biden cover here,
Everything was signed by autopen – almost everything,
If you do letters where people write in and they'd love to have a response and we write responses—I'll sign them whenever I can, but when I can't I will use an autopen."
But to use them for what they've used them for is terrible."
The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law,
To sign pardons and all of the things that [Biden] signed with an autopen is disgraceful,
You’re a reporter, you should find out.”
I went through four years of hell by the scum that we had to deal with … It’s really hard to say that they shouldn’t have to go through it all,
But none has shown the same symptoms of senility and dementia [as Biden],
The members of the Jan 6 Committee are all proud of our work. Your threats will not intimidate us. Or silence us.”
Did he know what he was doing?”
The notion of an autopen is certainly not going to go anywhere in any court in the United States,
There might be a serious legal question about pardoning without specifying the conduct that you're being pardoned for, right? So the blanket pardon for Hunter Biden ... a blanket pardon might be problematic because it's not clear what you're pardoning somebody for,
The Bush Justice Department looked at this thoroughly and concluded that as long as the President makes the actual decision, he can delegate to secretarial staff the actual signing of the document,