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PolitiFactPolitics & government

Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Research from related reporting says Trump has sought to criminally charge lawmakers who served on the Jan. 6 committee and has suggested Biden’s protective pardons of them are legally invalid. The supplied excerpts do not include the original PolitiFact review.