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Executive actions and autopen use

The historical use of autopen by U.S. presidents for executive actions and its legal implications.

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Jan 21, 2026

What kinds of legal claims (civil, criminal, ethics, defamation) have been brought against recent presidents like Biden, Trump, and Obama?

Recent presidents have faced a mix of civil, criminal, ethics and defamation claims, but the mix and intensity vary sharply: ’s presidency has been the target of a large volume of multistate and regul...

Jan 7, 2026

Who used the auto pen the most?

The historical record shows Thomas Jefferson was the earliest and most conspicuous early adopter of signature-duplicating machinery, using a polygraph/autopen extensively in the early 19th century . I...