Washington, March 18 -- US President Donald Trump said his predecessor's 11th-hour pardons of a raft of people, including infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci, were "void, vacant and of no further force or effect," signalling his administration may attempt to upend more than a century of law and practice for presidential pardons.
Joe Biden issued pardons to former senior Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney and other members of the congressional committee that had investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by Trump's supporters.
The Republican claimed that Biden's signature on the documents had been carried out with a commonly used device known as an autopen and therefore was not valid - without providing evidence either for ...