Explainer: Trump challenges Biden's pardon due to autopen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Barack Obama became the first president to do so in May 2011 when he signed an extension of the Patriot Act.
57% : Presidents, including Trump, have used them for decades.
57% : Trump vigorously used such powers at the opening of his presidency, issuing one document -- a proclamation -- granting pardons and commutations to all 1,500-plus people charged in the insurrection at the Capitol.
45% : Trump wrote on his social media site.
34% : Trump didn't offer any evidence to support his claims.
32% : Conservative media have amplified the claims, which have been picked up by Trump.
28% : Trump asserted in his all-caps post that the pardons are void and have no effect in his estimation.
28% : " Has Trump used an autopen?
25% : At the end of his term, Biden issued "preemptive pardons" to lawmakers and committee staff to protect them from any possible retribution from Trump.
24% : President Donald Trump claimed Monday that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot have no force because, Trump says, the-then president signed them with an autopen instead of by his own hand.
14% : Trump remains angry at being prosecuted by the Justice Department over his actions in inspiring his supporters to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden's defeat of him in the 2020 election, though the case was dismissed after he won reelection.
12% : Biden issued hundreds of commutations or pardons, including to members of his family, also because he feared possible prosecution by Trump and his allies.

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