The president of the United States, Donald Trumphe has declared that All pardons signed by his successor, Joe Bidenthey are invalid because they were executed using a “car” In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, what is more important, he knew nothing about them! “Trump published in the Social Truth Network.
Far from being something new, the “self -pen” has monopolized a good part of the American public debate, and therefore, the global. But what is this device that is putting the legitimacy of presidential firms?
An autopen, o robot bolygraphIt is one Machine designed to automatically replicate a handwritten firm. Unlike scanned firms, A real pen produces the firm with ink. It is a device usually used by politicians, executives and celebrities to sign large volumes of documents.
The Signature of the individual is recorded and stored digitally In the system. Thus, at the time of the firm A robotic arm or a mechanical pen reproduce the signature in the documents.
The Self -Eye was patented in the US in 1803, and already in 1804 Thomas Jefferson He did not waste time to acquire and use the machine. The current self -depending machines are different from the originals used by Jefferson; At that time, they were known by the name of polygraphs, and copied entire letters while the person wrote. They keep little resemblance to modern signing machines both in design and their operation.
With the passage of time, a template began to be used, which made a plastic channel (such as a signature mold). A pen followed the channel and reproduced the firm. Victim of technological advances, the physical template disappeared, and Today everything is carried out digitally.
Since Jefferson, several US presidents have used Self -Cen; Some shunned to confess their use, while others did not need to hide it. Although historically the official position of the White House has been to deny the existence or use of self -pen, today its use is rather an open secret.
An article in ‘The National Enquirer’ entitled “The robot that replaces the president” uncovered the entire issue by photographing the device in the White House. The president of the moment, Lyndon B. Johnson, broke with the secretism of Harry S. Truman and the opening of the use of self -depended by Gerald Ford.
The case of John F. Kennedy It is worth mentioning. He was so dependent on the Self -Cen that became the issue of a book entitled ‘The robot that helped make a president’. The author claimed that Kennedy’s dependency of the Self -Cen converted his authentic signature into the raternity of all presidential autographs. Although this statement has not remained over time, and Kennedy did not really use the Self -Cen and president, it seems that the great confidence of the Democrat in the device marked the beginning of a new era of technology in the White House, which resulted in his successor sharing this secret secret with the public.
The consequences of the growing acceptance of self -pen are many. From the world of collectinguntil it is Controversy object in relation to the constitutionality of the use of the autograph firm in the promulgation of a law.
In 2005, George W. Bush He was the first president who asked the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the President to sign a bill using the Self Although the answer was affirmative, he did not use this technology or made him send the law by postal mail, preferring in his place, to fly from Texas to Washington to sign the controversial Terri Schiavo Law.
In May 2011, while attending the G8 summit in France, Barack Obama It became the first president to use the Self -Cen to sign the ley Patriot that expired. In November of that same year, he signed a law of assignments with Self -Cen from Indonesia, and in 2013, the Democrat once again used this system from Hawaii to comply with the term of the signing of the Fiscal Candyle Law to several time areas of distance in Washington.
So far, the signing of a presidential decree with Autopen has not been constitutionally questioned. The constitutionality of the signature by power Yes, it has been questioned, and some jurists affirm that the problem is not the use of a power, but that the power (in this case, the president) and the attorney (the self -pen) are not together at the time of the firm.
