Substantive Vindictiveness (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

• The justice department is defending the fact that it deleted January 6th press releases from its website. 
• The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a motion to dismiss its fraud charges on vindictive prosecution grounds. 
• President Biden is suing the Department of Justice over audio recordings from his memoir project.  
• The US Attorney in DC quietly shutters the autopen investigation into the former president. 
• The DoJ has opened a criminal investigation into a non profit tied to writer E. Jean Carroll. 
• Plus listener questions.

Interview: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/substantive-vindictiveness/id1317481380?i=1000770410233

Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery

Latest snub is part of US president's attempts to delegitimise his predecessor with unproven claims…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/trump-hangs-autopen-photo-instead-of-biden-portrait-in-new-presidential-gallery

 

Joe Biden says US is facing ‘existential’ fight with marginalized groups ‘dramatically under attack’

In sporadic public appearances since leaving the White House, Biden has hit back against new reporting that alleges a "cover up" by the then-president's closest aides to hide his frailty and decline from an American public who polls showed believed he was too old to serve another four years… 

The White House and congressional Republicans have amplified the claims, opening investigations into whether Biden was in control when he made a series of notable clemency decisions at the end of his presidency. In an interview with the New York Times this month, Biden said he orally authorized every pardon and commutation issued during his term and called Republicans who said his staff abused the presidential autopen "liars"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/joe-biden-national-bar-association-awards-speech

 

Autopen explained: How Trump wants to disqualify Biden pardons

Other presidents have used an autopen to grant pardons, and experts have expressed doubt that courts would allow a president to revoke clemency granted by their predecessors... 

There is photographic proof, however, of Biden signing several of the documents that The Heritage Foundation is claiming were signed by autopen, Newsweek found...

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/what-is-autopen-biden-pardons