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Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:21 PM Yesterday

GOP's Comer targets Biden judicial appointments in latest attack on his presidential actions

The House Oversight Committee chairman isn't just targeting the former president's executive orders and pardons: he's focused on Biden's judges, too.

GOP’s Comer targets Biden judicial appointments in latest attack on his presidential actions
The House Oversight Committee chairman isn't just targeting the former president's executive orders and pardons: he's focused on Biden's judges, too.
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-comer-targets-biden-judicial-appointments-latest-attack-president-rcna220073

To that end, the GOP congressman has been fixated this year on Biden’s use of an autopen — a tool every modern president from both parties has utilized — and as The Daily Beast noted, Comer is even prepared to go in an unexpected direction:

The MAGA lawmaker overseeing the investigation into former President Joe Biden’s autopen use has vowed to probe the former president’s judicial appointments. During an appearance on Fox News, Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who leads the House Oversight Committee, said his inquiry would ‘look at everything that was signed with the autopen,’ including executive orders, pardons, and nominees.


......The Republican lawmaker didn’t explicitly mention any of the jurists by name, but in context, the segment began with a lengthy focus on Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — Biden’s only appointee to the high court — and Comer could be seen on camera shaking his head in an apparent disagreement in response to the justice’s public comments.




Comer added that, as part of his conspiracy theory, he believes it’s an open question as to whether Biden’s judicial appointments, each of which was confirmed by a majority of the U.S. Senate, “are legal.”

The Kentucky Republican added, “I think all of these are in jeopardy of being declared null and void in a court of law.”

In reality, it’s difficult to take any of Comer’s rhetoric seriously, but given that these bizarre comments are coming from the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, the GOP congressman is at least letting the public know where his misguided investigation is likely to go next.
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GOP's Comer targets Biden judicial appointments in latest attack on his presidential actions (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday OP
Show me where, in Article I, the House has any fucking power over the judiciary, rsdsharp Yesterday #1

rsdsharp

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1. Show me where, in Article I, the House has any fucking power over the judiciary,
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:42 PM
Yesterday

absent impeachment. Is a nomination signed by an auto pen a high crime or misdemeanor on the part of a judge or justice who was confirmed by the Senate after a hearing?

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