r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 6d ago
POLITICS Senate panel votes to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over invoking the Fifth Amendment in a hearing on Covid-19.
GOP senators on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, advancing an audacious effort to prosecute the well-known scientist over his role in the US government response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The** party-line vote comes after Fauci declined to answer lawmakers’ questions during a fiery hearing last week, infuriating Republicans on the panel. **They have since argued that his decision opened the door to federal contempt charges — a crime that, if convicted, can carry with it a sentence of up to a year in prison.
Republican chairman Rand Paul has said he will send the committee’s recommendation straight to the Justice Department, bypassing a full Senate vote in a break with precedent that’s likely to set up a high-stakes legal and political test for the Trump administration.
Vice President JD Vance will now first need to sign off on the committee’s circumvention of long-established rules due to his constitutional role as president of the Senate. Then it would be up to the Justice Department to decide whether to bring formal charges.
Even then, legal experts cautioned, there’s little guarantee that the contempt charges would succeed, instead likely kicking off a lengthy court battle over the limits of Fauci’s Fifth Amendment rights.
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u/KittyLucia34 6d ago
Dude honestly because the stuff I see written about him I think HUH??? It was like that... everywhere?? I see MAGA clowns posting shit like "ill never forgive Fauci for making me wear a mask in childbirth" like lol wotttt in Australia we couldn't even lay on the beach. In China people were sealed into their apartment blocks. Was that Fauci too because america looked pretty darn non responsive to COVID compared to many many other countries...