Former President Joe Biden told the New York Times that he granted his staff the use of his autopen because he “had granted clemency to so many people. ” For the first time in an interview with the NYT,

Former President Joe Biden did not closely review every case included in his sweeping end-of-term clemency spree and instead delegated vast authority to aides to handle the process, including to then-chief of staff Jeff Zients,

A report from The New York Times indicates that former President Joe Biden’s staffers used the autopen to sign off on changes to pardons without notifying the president. The article states that Biden “did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers