Biden’s final acts should be investigated – state attorney general

The former US president’s last executive orders may have been “unconstitutional” due to his cognitive decline, Missouri’s Andrew Bailey has said

The last executive orders and pardons issued by former US President Joe Biden could be “null and void” or even outright “unconstitutional,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has claimed. He has requested that the Department of Justice (DOJ) launch an investigation into Biden’s activities in his last months in office.

“Unelected staff” members of the former president’s administration could have exploited his mental state to promote what Bailey called “radical” policies without the president being fully aware, the attorney general argued in a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz that he published on X.

“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 wrote on Wednesday in a post accompanying the letter. “If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void,” he added.

Bailey pointed to what he called “the streak of extraordinary far-left orders purportedly issued by Biden” in the last months of his term. The list compiled by Bailey included Biden granting his son Hunter a retroactive blanket pardon after vowing not to do so, as well as making a “legally frivolous” claim that the Equal Rights Amendment was part of the US Constitution.