WASHINGTON – Today during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) co-chaired entitled, “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,” he discussed with witness Theodore Wold, Visiting Fellow for Law and Technology Policy at the Heritage Foundation, the crimes potentially committed by Joe Biden’s Cabinet members and senior aides in their attempts to conceal the former President’s cognitive decline while in office, along with his use of an autopen. Excerpts are below, and video can be found here.

On the President’s Use of an Autopen:

CORNYN: “When talking about the autopen, there are really two issues: One is the mechanical use of an autopen in lieu of an actual signature by the President, but it seems to me that we’re confronted with the more important, or more fundamental issues is, did the President know that the autopen was being used for that purpose?”

“What we’re confronted with here is really the capacity of the President of the United States to understand what he was supposed to be doing.”

On Potential Crimes Committed During the Cover-up:

CORNYN: “Some have suggested that there may be potential crimes committed by members of the Cabinet for failing to act, basically suborning perjury, forging government documents, impersonating a Federal officer, making false statements, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of justice, wire or mail fraud – those are all statutes, criminal statutes, that are on the books.”

“Do you think there’s any application of any of those criminal statutes to the circumstances of the Biden presidency and his incapacity, and the failure of those persons, only persons, authorized to question that incapacity under the 25th Amendment – the failure on their part to act?”

WOLD: “I will say, the 25th Amendment, it’s a modern contrivance, but it still is consistent with American constitutional tradition, which it assumes that officers of the United States will act virtuously and morally.”

“And the idea that members of the Cabinet would go to the length of avoiding the Oval Office so as to abdicate their responsibility to verify the appropriateness of the President’s acuity or the ability to authenticate actions taken by the President – if that’s not a constitutional scandal, honestly, I don’t know what would constitute such.”

“There could be the potential for crimes, but moreover, the 25th Amendment can only function in its procedural mechanisms if people are actually willing to call a spade a spade.”