Did the 9th District Court side with the US Solicitor General to vacate 84 of Joe Biden's "autopen pardons"? No, that's not true: There were no actual news stories about this. The story originated on a satirical Facebook page. The owner of the page is known for tricking conservatives into liking and sharing made-up content.
The claim appeared in an image in a Facebook post (archived here) published on September 3, 2025 by Facebook page "America's Last Line Of Defense". The post itself read:
The time for these criminals to walk free has come to an end.
The image included in the post had the following text:
The liberal 9th District Court sided with the US Solicitor General and vacated 84 of Biden's "autopen pardons"
Which means US Attorneys across the country can start calling up grand juries.
This was what the image looked like:
(Image source: post on the America's Last Line Of Defense Facebook page)
As seen in the screenshot above, the shared image showed a logo of "America's Last Line of Defense" in the middle that reads, "Nothing on this page is real."
Searches on Google News and Yahoo News for news articles containing the phrases "us solicitor general", "autopen" and "9th district court" did not bring up any real news stories about such a ruling (archived here and here). It did bring up one earlier fact check (archived here) about a satire story from March 2025 by the Dunning-Kruger Times (archived here) that made the exact same claim.
The homepage of the America's Last Line of Defense Facebook account (archived here) mentions it is the "home of the Dunning-Kruger Times" and clearly states, "The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real," as this screenshot shows:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories)
The page says it is run by "Busta Troll," which is the nickname of Christopher Blair.
Christopher Blair is a self-professed liberal from Maine who, for years, has run networks of websites set up to troll conservatives with made-up news items in order to get them to share his posts. A 2018 BBC profile called Blair "the Godfather of fake news," describing him as "one of the world's most prolific writers of disinformation."
The account is part of a network of satire websites and those pages display satire disclaimers and predominantly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Blair's stories have been widely copied by spammy, foreign website networks seeking to profit by spamming American conservatives with clickbait headlines.
