The auto-pen pardons look bad<\/a>, but I’m certain they will be upheld. It’s a matter of federal law but examples from Minnesota might be illustrative. <\/p>\n\n\n\nA deed to convey real estate is not valid without the signature of the grantor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A signature is any mark intended to authenticate an instrument. Making your X on the deed is a “signature.” The law does not discriminate against the illiterate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And a signature may be made by the signer, or by rubber stamp bearing the signer’s name, or made by another at the direction of the signer. The law does not discriminate against the handicapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given the broadness of the concept in widely different areas of the law, I am confident the courts would have no trouble upholding everything Biden signed by autopen the same as if he personally signed every document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They have to – otherwise there’s no end to the chaos caused by acknowledging that he was mentally incompetent and somebody else was running the country. Can’t admit that publicly even though everybody knows it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The fact that Biden’s actions were protected by the same measures that protect illiterates and incompetents somehow takes a little sting off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: The fact that Biden’s actions were protected by the same measures that protect illiterates and incompetents somehow takes a little sting off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89387,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89386\/revisions\/89387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}