'How convenient': GOP just unveiled a new 'Act' to make you forget what Donald Trump and Epstein did together

[MayReasonRule]

https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/how-convenient-gop-just-unveiled-a-new-act-to-make-you-forget-what-donald-trump-and-epstein-did-together/

In what looks like a desperate effort to shift public focus, Republican Representative Addison McDowell of North Carolina has introduced a new bill called the “Ban on Inkless Directives and Executive Notarizations Act of 2025,” or the “BIDEN Act.”

This proposed law would ban the use of autopen machines for presidential signatures on important documents like finalized bills, executive orders, pardons, and commutations.

The act claims that only the president personally can legally sign such papers. The bill also states that any document signed in the past or future that breaks this rule would be considered invalid, as Fox News reports, as if there’s not bigger news happening with the current sitting president.

[Raven123]

1. Right. Retroactive laws.

Sadly SCOTUS May just let them get away with it.

[markodochartaigh]

2. Hmmm. I doubt that the current supremacist court will object though.

Retroactive legislation may raise various separation-of-powers concerns. For example, in Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc., 514 U.S. 211 (1995), the Supreme Court held unconstitutional on separation-of-powers grounds a statute that would have required federal courts to reopen final judgments entered before its enactment because the law interfered with the judicial power to rule with finality.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11293

[sinkingfeeling]

3. So, I guess that would invalidate about 50 years of proclamations, pardons, and EOs.

[JHB]

4. Well, there's a whole bunch of J6 pardons right out the window.

It's not as if he personally signed 1500 pardons (in one day).