August 6, 2026

SENATE PANEL VOTES TO HOLD FAUCI IN CONTEMPT:

But the resolution might not even get a chance to pass the full Senate. The measure would be subject to the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to break a filibuster, and it is unlikely that it would receive the consent of enough Democrats to move toward final passage.

Rather than send it to the floor after the committee vote, Paul has said he plans to send it directly to the DOJ.

“There’s not a lot of precedent for a lot of this, but it isn’t a law, so there isn’t any exact procedure that it has to follow,” he told reporters earlier this week. Paul added that the committee would also include a legal brief on “whether or not the Fifth Amendment applies when you have a pardon.”

President Joe Biden a day before he left office issued Fauci a preemptive pardon covering any crimes he might have committed from January 1, 2014, to January 19, 2025.

That is one reason why Paul’s previous pleas for the DOJ to prosecute Fauci have failed to elicit a case. The senator has referred Fauci to the department under both the Biden and Trump administrations, but neither one moved to bring charges.

Republicans have long called for prosecutions against the former health official. Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas said the federal government should appoint a special counsel to investigate him.

“What Fauci did would make Watergate look like some type of a Tiddlywinks game, with his cover-up, as well,” he told National Review. “That’s what really needs to be done. They need to get this out of Washington, D.C., and get the politics out of it. Americans deserve the truth.”

Speaking of getting out of DC: It’s Not Over: Now Another State Is Coming for Fauci After His Disastrous Senate 5th Amendment Fest. “Florida and Alabama are investigating him on the state level, and now Louisiana is jumping aboard too.”

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Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll