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First on Fox: Senate Republicans accused former president Joe Biden Senior government officials “demolish” the constitutional guardrails of pardons by using automatic starts.
senator Ted CruzR-Texas wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was first obtained by Fox News, that there was a list of “core constitutional requirements” that must satisfy pardons and grant forgiveness, and that the government’s use of automatic openness of these guards could be imposed.
During the declining month of the presidency, the Biden administration commuted with a sentence of about 1,500 prisoners and pardoned 39 in December. More than a month later, the government issued about 2,500 commutes, the most ever the president has ever made in a day.
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). (Alison Robert/Bloomberg by Getty Image)
Cruz is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and chair of the Federal Court, Supervision, Institutional Litigation and Federal Rights Subcommittee, aiming to provide aid to Bundy Ongoing Investigation Entering the government suspected of abuse of automatic start.
He said the frivolousness was “based on broad standards rather than on-case basis, at least some were signed with the signature of then-President Biden.”
“These core constitutional requirements, considerations and expectations are being demolished in the last few months of the Biden administration’s partisan administration and demolished by President Biden, his family and his senior officials,” Cruz said.
Cruz notes that the presidential pardon agency grants Article 2, Section 2 He said the Constitution requires a series of custody: an uninterrupted route from the president to the grant of pardon.

Former President Joe Biden spoke with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday, September 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
“Everyone involved in this process – the government officials who claim to be pardoned, the people who are granted it, the judicial and law enforcement officers, and the majority of the American people – should have absolute confidence.”
However, recent reports and ongoing congressional investigations have raised doubts about whether Biden clearly directed a pardon for the avalanche.
Cruz’s letter followed a report from Axios, which unearthed an email showing concerns among Biden officials about how the presidential team decides to make certain pardons and frequent use of automatic startups.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously said he went missing every night at the last minute. (Craig Hudson/Reuters)
Cruz said the emails indicated that the Biden White House “implemented a process to separate the president from the officials responsible for signing the pardon on his behalf.”
“They don’t know they are under the guidance of the president, whether it’s case by case or standard,” he said.
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He believes the recent report raises doubts, as well as ongoing investigations Ministry of JusticeRisk of “a constitutional crisis in which other branches and the American people cannot believe that the president’s second power of pardon is legally deployed.”
“If Biden officials break the integrity of the forgiveness process so that there is no relevant action taken in the direction of the president, the status of pardon and cashing will be at least suspected and the officials who have been awarded approval and use automatic start shall be held accountable,” Cruz said.

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