https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-covid-contempt-01027906
Showing posts with label 5th amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5th amendment. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2026
Hellbent on putting Fauci in jail, Rand Paul wants to skip a Senate vote - POLITICO
“This is just another example of boys gone wild, tearing loose from the mores of procedure, regular order, constitutional doctrine to vindicate some political vendetta,” Brand said. “And it’s going to fail like all the others have failed.”…
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing : NPR
A spokesperson for Fauci sent a document fact-checking Paul's claims and a letter written by Fauci's legal team to Paul last month. In that letter, Fauci's lawyers wrote Paul was waging a "years-long public crusade" against Fauci.
"You are single-mindedly fixating on seeing Dr. Fauci prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and you are so invested in that outcome that you have created a personal brand around it," says the letter, which NPR reviewed…
Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned
Canceling grants based on political priorities, trialled at the National Institutes of Health in 2025, are now the basis of a proposed rule that would bring the $1tn entire federal grant-making apparatus under the control of political appointees.
Wednesday’s hearing was another example of how criticizing scientists has become an important outlet for the party – and where relitigating the Covid crisis justifies skepticism of a broad range of science.
“For the past 18 months, the Trump administration has been engaged in a campaign to rewrite this history,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, about the darkest days of the pandemic, when hospitals overflowed and researchers worked on hyper-speed to understand the virus. “Today’s proceeding, I fear, is part of that effort.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-covid-hearing-takeaways
Anthony Fauci to face grilling from Senate Republicans on Covid pandemic
While Republicans have characterized their work as investigating “the origins of Covid-19 and risky taxpayer-funded life science research”, scientists have characterized Paul’s investigation as “vilification and harassment” of Fauci, who led Niaid for 38 years before retiring in 2022...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-hearing-covid
Friday, July 18, 2025
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