Faucis Biden autopen pardon wont spare him from prosecution for 5th Amendment spectacle: GOP senators
WASHINGTON – Dr.Anthony Fauci’s pardon from Joe Biden won’t save him from prosecution for obstructing Congress, Sen.
Rand Paul warned on Wednesday.Fauci, in a shocking move, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment like a broken record at least 70 times during his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, saying he believed Paul (R-Ky.) was trying to entrap him.The former head of infectious diseases is no longer protected by the blanket pardon given to him by the former president.The pardon only covers Fauci to the date former President Biden’s autopen signed it: January 19, 2025. Sen.
Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) warned Fauci that the Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply to his situation.“Let’s just get one thing straight: You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you’ve been pardoned, as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more.Brown vs.
Walker, 1896, ‘When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege,’” Hawley noted.“You know that.Your lawyers sitting behind you now, shifting nervously in their chairs, they know it,” he said.
“This isn’t about the Constitution.This isn’t about the law.
This is about contempt, contempt for this body and contempt for the American people.”Fauci was subpoenaed to appear by Paul, who has long sparred with the senator over the origins of COVID-19, which killed more than 7 million worldwide, shut down the economy and forced kids out of schools — stunting learning and social development.Fauci, who led the country’s COVID response, was given the “full and unconditional” pardon dating from “January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon arising,” his pardon says.Biden also gave Fauci clemency for any actions taken while he was Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and ...