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The Justice Department faces competing pressures as it decides whether to bring Fauci before a grand jury. <\/strong><\/p>

Read more What happened under Trump this week<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthony S. Fauci repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment last week at an appearance before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Nathan Howard\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

A Senate committee\u2019s vote this week<\/a> to hold Anthony S. Fauci in contempt of Congress hands the Justice Department two thorny questions: Will the agency prosecute the 85-year-old infectious-disease scientist, and could it win such a case in court?<\/p>\n

The contempt vote does not automatically mean Fauci will face charges, and if that does happen, legal analysts say there are hurdles and potential weakness for any possible case.<\/p>\n

The 8-7 vote centered on Fauci\u2019s recent appearance<\/a> before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, during which the former public health official repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions.<\/p>\n

Fauci said committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) \u2014 who has long assailed the scientist over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and called for him to be jailed \u2014 was trying to trap him in a misstep. Paul said Fauci had no legitimate reason to avoid questions, since President Joe Biden granted him<\/a> a preemptive pardon before leaving office last year.<\/p>\n

Deciding whether Fauci <\/b>should actually face criminal charges that could land him behind bars, though, is up to the Justice Department. Its leader, <\/b>Todd Blanche, just faced a grueling confirmation fight, with senators of both parties pressing him to resist politicizing the department.<\/p>\n

Carlos Uriarte, who was assistant attorney general for legislative affairs during the Biden administration, said lawmakers routinely refer matters to the Justice Department \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t mean prosecutions follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cDOJ has a lot of discretion in terms of what investigations it pursues, regardless of what steps Congress takes,\u201d said Uriarte, now a partner at the firm Morrison Foerster.<\/p>\n

Federal law says contempt of Congress cases <\/b>must be referred to a U.S. attorney, \u201cwhose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Justice Department has concluded in the past that presenting these cases to a grand jury is optional.<\/p>\n

In a 1984 legal opinion<\/a> for the agency, then-Assistant Attorney General Theodore B. Olson \u2014 who later served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush \u2014 wrote: \u201cCongress does not have the statutory or constitutional authority to require a particular case to be referred to the grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department said Friday in a statement about the Fauci contempt case that it had \u201creceived the document, we are reviewing it, and will work with the Senate accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stephen K. Bannon talks to reporters after appearing in federal court on Nov. 15, 2021, after being charged with contempt of Congress. (Matt McClain\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The Fauci case, though, is far from typical. It involves a longtime health official who became the face of the American response to the pandemic, celebrated by many Democrats and vilified by conservatives.<\/p>\n

In a letter Thursday to Blanche and Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., Paul wrote that Fauci had improperly invoked the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-incrimination.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Fauci cannot have any reasonable fear of federal prosecution because he received a sweeping pardon,\u201d Paul wrote.<\/p>\n

Senators asked Fauci many questions about \u201cexclusively federal subject matter,\u201d Paul wrote, involving \u201cconduct for which the pardon eliminates federal jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Schertler, an attorney for Fauci, said there was \u201cabsolutely no basis for a criminal contempt charge against Dr. Fauci.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis assertion of his Fifth Amendment rights was completely appropriate and justified given Senator Paul\u2019s many explicit statements that his clear intention was to see Dr. Fauci \u2018behind bars,\u2019\u201d Schertler said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Fauci\u2019s is not the first politically charged contempt case of recent years. Stephen K.<\/a> Bannon<\/a> and Peter Navarro<\/a> \u2014 top advisers to President Donald Trump \u2014 were held in contempt in separate episodes by the House of Representatives during the Biden administration for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee.<\/p>\n

Bannon and Navarro were both prosecuted, convicted and jailed. Two other Trump aides \u2014 Mark Meadows and Daniel Scavino Jr. \u2014 were also held in contempt by the House, but the Justice Department declined to prosecute them.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has criticized Fauci, cited the Bannon and Navarro cases after the contempt vote this week in suggesting the doctor should be prosecuted.<\/p>\n

During Trump\u2019s second term, the Justice Department has shown an appetite for taking aim at his foes, including former FBI director James B. Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors could take a few different routes with the Fauci case, including deciding not to bring it to a grand jury at all, pursuing a contempt case as Paul wants and seeking entirely different charges against Fauci.<\/p>\n

If prosecutors proceed with a criminal case against Fauci, a grand jury could reject it. That has repeatedly happened<\/a> during Trump\u2019s second term, including earlier this year when a federal grand jury in D.C. refused<\/a> to indict six Democratic lawmakers who had recorded a video saying military service members could disobey illegal commands.<\/p>

Read more Cassidy backs Blanche for attorney general, appearing to clear way for confirmation<\/a><\/p>\n

A case against Fauci would risk genuine legal peril for him. If Fauci is convicted on a misdemeanor count of contempt of Congress, he could be jailed for at least 30 days and up to a year. But legal analysts said the case faces several hurdles.<\/p>\n

The resolution<\/a> finding Fauci in contempt was approved by a Senate committee on a party-line vote, but it was never presented to the full Senate, where it is not clear it would have passed. Some legal analysts suggest Fauci\u2019s attorneys could try to challenge a prosecution in the case <\/b>on that basis alone.<\/p>\n

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Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) presides over a vote Thursday on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. (Nathan Howard\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Stanley Brand, who represented Navarro in his contempt case, said that under the statute<\/a>, the full Senate needs to review such cases when it is in session.<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s decision to send the case to DOJ without the full Senate involved \u201cis just fatal to the case,\u201d said Brand, who previously worked as general counsel for the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Brand said bypassing the full Senate and sending it from the committee vote on to the Justice Department is \u201clike flushing it down the toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others were not certain that this would doom a prosecution of Fauci, though they expected his attorneys would at least raise the issue if the case proceeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s possible that\u2019s a procedural defense he could raise,\u201d said Amanda Vaughn, an attorney at Fairmark Partners, who was part of the teams at the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in D.C. that prosecuted Navarro and Bannon. \u201cBut there\u2019s not a lot of case law on it, as to whether bypassing the full Senate would be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another unusual element in the case is Fauci\u2019s pardon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly before leaving office, Biden granted pardons<\/a> to Fauci and others who he said faced the threat of \u201cunjustified and politically motivated prosecutions\u201d by Trump\u2019s second administration.<\/p>\n

The language of the pardon states that it covered actions stretching back more than a decade, including Fauci\u2019s work on the pandemic response. Paul wrote to Blanche and Pirro that the broad nature of the pardon negated Fauci\u2019s need for the Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is difficult to conceive of a more comprehensive grant of federal immunity, and it forecloses the ordinary basis for Fifth Amendment protection for any topics covered by the Committee,\u201d Paul wrote.<\/p>\n

Legal experts, though, noted that the pardon was not boundless, in part because it only covered actions through the date it was issued in January 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cA fundamental rule about pardons is that the president can only pardon events which occur before the moment that the pardon issues,\u201d said Frank O. Bowman III, an emeritus law professor at the University of Missouri and an expert in presidential clemency.<\/p>\n

\u201cA pardon does not cover anything after its issuance,\u201d he said. \u201cThe person pardoned could certainly be prosecuted for, for example, any false statements or perjury that he committed after the date of the pardon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presidential clemency is also limited to federal offenses and does not protect against state charges.<\/p>\n

Three Republican attorneys general \u2014 in Florida, Louisiana and West Virginia \u2014 announced this week that they were subpoenaing Fauci, and a fourth in Oklahoma ordered an investigation into him there.<\/p>\n

The contempt resolution said Fauci had waived his right to invoke the Fifth Amendment by giving \u201copening testimony on subject matter pertinent to the questions under inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time lawmakers have made such an argument.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the House of Representatives voted to hold ex-Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt after she made an opening statement at a hearing and later invoked the Fifth Amendment. The following year, the U.S. attorney for D.C. at the time, Ronald C. Machen Jr., said his office was declining<\/a> to bring that case before a grand jury.<\/p>\n

David I. Schoen, an attorney who represented Bannon in his contempt case, said Fauci\u2019s opening statement could prove an issue for his defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would make the argument, if I were on the prosecution side, that that is a statement denying the charges against him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Schoen was also critical of Fauci for invoking the Fifth Amendment when pressed during the hearing on relatively mundane topics, including when Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) asked him about the color of his tie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fifth Amendment is a vitally important part of the Constitution,\u201d Schoen said. \u201cOn the other hand, it shouldn\u2019t be abused.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowman said that technically, Fauci could not invoke the Fifth Amendment in those areas \u201cbecause the answers to those questions couldn\u2019t reasonably incriminate him.\u201d But people who are invoking the Fifth Amendment often do so broadly, he added, because defense lawyers tell them not to answer anything to avoid getting \u201cdrawn into question-by-question justifications of why you answered this and didn\u2019t answer that.\u201d<\/p>

Read more Trump won\u2019t let the Supreme Court have the last word<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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