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Posted on 06/18/2026 9:10:12 AM PDT by RandFan
TWO top U.S. senators are urging the Trump Justice Department to challenge the legality of President Joe Biden's pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci and to pursue criminal charges against the nation's former top doc during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I think we should challenge the pardon, because it's an extraordinary pardon. It's a pardon not for a specific crime, and it's a pardon over a 10 year period. It's the same that he got the same thing Hunter Biden got," Sen. Rand Paul told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Tuesday.
"I think that could be challenged in court, because it's not specific, it's vague, and it doesn't specify the crime, and it's such a large period of time. So, I think it could be challenged, and should be challenged," he said.
Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who accused the doctor of misleading Congress, added that the recent indictment of two Fauci deputies could give the DOJ leverage to secure their cooperation and testimony against their former boss.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., echoed Paul's concerns on Wednesday, telling Just the News that he's "pretty certain" what Fauci funded in terms of research caused the COVID pandemic.
"Anthony Fauci is a bad person, and he ought to be prosecuted, because I believe he did commit crimes," Johnson said.
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Literally...
I agree with this.
Find out if such unnamed crimes can ever be pardoned before trials.
Fauci needs a perp walk with Obama.
Yes it deserves a challenge even if its a long-shot
Fascinating did not mind killing others. Kill him back. My daughter died 15 weeks after taking his booster shot. Kill him back. I dream about it every day.
Fascinating = Fauci. Hate texting.
I’m sorry for your loss
The pardon PROVES he committed crimes. No crimes, no pardon needed.
The Founders made an error by giving presidents such a wide pardon power. It’s one of the few things that has no “checks and balances” built in.
Unfortunately, Sen. Paul is wrong here. Consider Ford’s pardon of Nixon. That pardon even covered federal crimes that Nixon *might* have committed.
For the curious, the relevant text:
“Now, Therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.”
Now that he ended Israel’s war, if he does this, forces the Senate to pass the SAFE act, ramps back up mass deportations and prosecutes the old FBI leadership who spied on him....I’M BACK to being a die hard supporter.
I’d like to see many of the pardons issued after Election Day 2024 challenged on the grounds of authenticity. We don’t have the first flippin clue how they came to be.
The Founders made an error by giving presidents such a wide pardon power. It’s one of the few things that has no “checks and balances” built in.
I would call it a “truth commission” with promises of no prosecution only if one cooperates fully.
Otherwise NOTHING will happen. Politicians will grandstand. Headlines will be created, and we will learn nothing new.
It’s TOO LATE NOW!!
Fauci gets protected status because he is a hero to the left. Many years ago he was the one who pushed and cemented the narrative that AIDS was everyone’s disease and not a gay disease when it was and is primarily a gay disease.
What crimes were named in the pardon? Seems odd to have a pardon that doesn’t list specific crimes
It’s time to go full Pinochet before it’s too late.
> you really don’t see the checks and balances? <
The only check to a president’s pardon power is his impeachment in House, and then conviction in Senate.
That’s it. And this would not reverse any odious pardons a president might have already issued.
So in his last few days in office, a president could literally pardon every single person in the federal prison system. Nothing could stop it.
The Founders should have allowed Congress to override a pardon just as it can override a veto: the high hurdle of 2/3 majority in each House.
If I ever invent a time machine, I’m going to mention this to George, Ben, and the boys.
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