Ted Cruz Torches Biden for ‘Partisan and Personal Motives’ After Bombshell Autopen Pardon Report

Senator Ted Cruz is calling foul on what he describes as a “shocking abuse” of presidential power, blasting the Biden administration for demolishing constitutional safeguards in its final-month rush of pardons and commutations — many of which were allegedly authorized by an autopen without the direct knowledge or involvement of then-President Joe Biden.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Cruz accused Biden and his top officials of leveraging the clemency process for “partisan and personal motives,” raising the specter of a constitutional crisis.

“These core Constitutional requirements, considerations, and expectations were demolished in the final months of the Biden administration,” Cruz charged, citing troubling reports that thousands of clemency decisions were pushed through based on vague criteria and signed not by Biden himself, but via autopen.

Historic Numbers, Troubling Questions

In December and January, Biden’s team commuted sentences for nearly 4,000 inmates and issued dozens of pardons, including for his own son. But instead of carefully evaluating each case, Cruz says the administration relied on sweeping criteria and minimized presidential involvement — a process he says bypassed the intent of Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution.

“Everyone involved in the process… should have absolute confidence a pardon was granted at the president’s explicit direction,” Cruz wrote.

That confidence, he argues, has been shattered.

Smoking Gun: Emails and Internal Concerns

The uproar follows an Axios report that unearthed internal emails and memos showing confusion among Biden staffers. Some admitted they weren’t sure whether the president had actually approved the clemency decisions. Others raised concerns about the legality of using autopens and questioned whether the president was even reading the materials presented to him.

Cruz noted that the documents suggest the White House “implemented a process that separated the President from officials responsible for signing pardons on his behalf,” calling it a betrayal of constitutional responsibility.

The Push for Accountability

Cruz, who chairs the Senate subcommittee overseeing federal courts and agency actions, offered assistance to Bondi’s Justice Department and called for full investigations into the use of the autopen — especially in light of the claims that it may have been greenlit even before Biden’s inauguration, raising questions about his fitness to serve from the outset.

“If the integrity of the clemency process was broken by Biden officials,” Cruz warned, “then the officials involved in approving and using the autopens should be held accountable.”

With more details expected to emerge, the incident could snowball into a major scandal — and potentially cast a legal shadow over thousands of Biden-era clemency orders.