President Donald Trump is claiming that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have no force because Biden signed them with an autopen instead of by his own hand.

President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the legality of autopen-signed pardons should be decided by the courts, questioning whether former President Joe Biden’s final clemency orders, including controversial preemptive pardons,

Donald Trump says Joe Biden's last-minutes pardons via autopen are null and void. But what is an autopen? And what does it mean for pardons?