State AG Sets Stage to Have All Biden Pardons, Exec Orders, Other Actions Legally Voided

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers about what former President Joe Biden may not have known and for how long he remained unaware.

In a post on X, Bailey called for the Department of Justice to fully investigate whether Biden’s extensive use of executive orders and pardons in the final stretch of his presidency occurred while he was unaware of what he was authorizing.

“I am demanding the DOJ [investigate] whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval,” Bailey stated. “If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.”

Bailey included a copy of a letter addressed to Michael Horowitz, the inspector general for the Department of Justice, as part of his post.

In the letter, Bailey raised concerns that there are “profound reasons to suspect that Biden’s staff and political allies exploited his mental decline to issue purported presidential orders without his knowing approval.”

Bailey pointed out that House Speaker Mike Johnson is among those who have claimed that Democratic leaders deliberately blocked access to Biden in person.

“Speaker Johnson, for example, reported that staff and elected officials — including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer — tried to prevent Johnson from meeting with Biden,” Bailey wrote.

“Though presidents always have gatekeepers, in Biden’s case, the walls around him were higher and the controls greater, according to Democratic lawmakers, donors and aides who worked for Biden and other administrations. Staff limited Biden’s ability to speak with others and limited the sources of information he consumed,” he continued.

Bailey asserted that unelected staff members and the Vice President cannot legally bypass constitutional accountability by pushing policies through “a man who does not know what he is signing.”

He further argued that if staffers were indeed behind the sweeping policy decisions, that could explain why “the Biden administration’s orders were aggressively much farther to the left than any previous President. … If in fact Biden’s staffers were exploiting his mental decline, those orders are null and void.”

“By now, Biden’s mental decline is famous,” Bailey remarked.

He referenced the 25th Amendment, stating that if Biden had been incapable of making executive decisions, power should have been transferred. Instead, he suggested, administration officials may have leveraged Biden’s condition to enact orders without the approval of a fully aware and competent president.

Bailey stressed that this issue remains critical despite Biden no longer holding office.

“Who has been running the country for the last few years?” Bailey questioned. “I fear that Mr. Biden, while he held the office of President, did so in name only and was a mere puppet for far-left, unelected staffers. The people deserve to know the truth.”

He cited Democratic National Committee fundraiser Lindy Li’s recent statement that “the people who ran our country for the last four years were his staff, his wife, and his son Hunter Biden.”

“I thus ask you to launch an investigation, or refer my request to another investigative body, to determine which of Biden’s purported orders were knowingly issued by a competent President and which were not,” Bailey wrote.

In January, Speaker Johnson disclosed concerns that Biden was unaware of what he was signing, as reported by the Free Press of D.C.

Johnson recounted an instance from early 2024 where Biden assured him he had not halted exports of liquefied natural gas, even though such an order had already been enacted. Johnson insisted that Biden was not being deceptive.

“He genuinely did not know what he had signed,” Johnson said.

He left the meeting feeling deeply unsettled. “And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble — who is running the country?’ Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know,” he said.