A group that supports energy is reiterating its demand for an investigation into more than six climate-related executive actions signed by former President Joe Biden without any public statement from him indicating his knowledge of them. The group believes that these actions should be declared null and invalid.
An advocacy group for American energy jobs called Power the Future examined eight executive orders signed by President Biden that it claims marked a change in domestic energy policy. The group found no public mention of the orders from the president, leading them to speculate that they were signed by autopen and that Biden was unaware of them.
According to Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power The Future, Joe Biden failed to openly address fundamental changes in American energy policy, despite the fact that they were not obscure bureaucratic papers. This was reported by AWN Digital.
A number of executive orders were examined by Power the Future. These orders include a 2023 ban on drilling in the Arctic, a 2021 order pledging the federal government to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, an order requiring “clean energy” artificial intelligence centers, and a ban on offshore drilling just before the president leaves office in 2025.
After discovering that Biden did not address the climate executive orders in public, Power the Future has taken matters into their own hands and has demanded an investigation into the decision-makers, order drafters, and signers by contacting the Departments of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Interior, Department of Energy, and House and Senate Oversight Committees.
“In light of the growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by the former president may not have been approved or signed by him, but instead promulgated by a small coterie of advisers in his name without his knowledge or over his signature using a ‘autopen,’ the need for congressional access to information has grown in importance with these revelations,” the letter addressed to Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer points out.
Legislators should be informed about the circumstances behind the authorization of these executive measures and if the previous president was informed about them prior to their execution by the federal bureaucracy. Were the president’s knowledge and attitude utilized in these acts purportedly carried out on his behalf? Congress should investigate all parties involved in these acts to determine who ordered them and when.
No word from Biden’s office was received by AWN Digital when we contacted out for comment.
Questions regarding Biden’s mental acuity during his presidency, especially the last few years, have been a topic of conversation among Republicans in recent weeks and months. Their focus has been on the presidential autopen, which has come under increased scrutiny since the release of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book “Original Sin.”
The ability to The letter notes that there is ongoing worry within the Future over the possibility that important policies with significant economic and national security implications were implemented by a small group of White House officials during the Biden administration without the knowledge or consent of the president.
“Although this likelihood has become more apparent by claims made in a recent book titled Original Sin, those claims merely support information that had already emerged.”
A physical instrument that mimics the grip of a pen and can be programmed to write a person’s signature is called an autopen. The use of an autopen by the president to sign bills into law was established in 2005 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the lack of “a writing does not equate to proof that a commutation did not occur.”
March saw President Trump’s assertion that Biden’s pardons of members who had been part of the House Select Committee looking into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, among others, are “VOID,” with the president claiming that Biden was unaware of their signing thanks to an autopen.
According to constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who spoke with AWN Digital, the chances of Trump being able to challenge Biden’s pardons in court on the basis of his alleged use of an autopen are “vanishingly low.”
“Presidents are allowed to use the autopen, and courts will not presume a dead-hand conspiracy,” added Turley.
In their letter, Power the Future cites House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) January statement in which Johnson said that Biden seemed to forget that he had signed an order to halt LNG shipments while they were in a meeting.
An affiliate of the Heritage Foundation released a study claiming that Biden’s autopen signature was on most of his official documents.
Turner told AWN Digital that the American people “deserve to know” who was signing the executive orders “behind closed doors,” and that there is no evidence that Biden ordered, directed, or was even aware that hundreds of billions of dollars were funneled towards pet green projects while the American fossil fuels industry was punished during the Biden administration.
“This autopen scandal is evidence that these green EOs are invalid, and the instigators should be thoroughly investigated by the DOJ for violating the trust of the American people and perpetuating a great fraud on the nation.”
