Probe Joe Biden's fishy signatures, but don't ignore pardon

Autopen abuse is only the latest wrinkle in the now decades-old problems surrounding the presidential pardon power.

The Justice Department is now looking into whether President Joe Biden was sufficiently competent when he issued a handful of pardons in his final days in office; some even suggest that misuse of the infamous autopen allowed for others to slip through clemencies without involving Joe at all.

Biden in all “signed” over 4,000 pardons of some kind, many of them utterly rancid: from hundreds of commutations for vile bribe-takers, con artists and other sleazoids to letting literal child murderers dodge the death penalty.

What if anything did the president know about what “he” was doing?

No one doubts he chose to pardon son Hunter, and in fact all signs are that he truly