Hours before the 47th president takes the oath, some of his highest-profile foes get pre-emptive protection from prosecution.
It was just moments before Joe Biden's presidential term ended when he announced pardons for his siblings and their spouses.
With the Fauci pardon, Biden aimed at an Impunity Democracy in which government officials pay no price for their crimes. Trump officials and congressional investigators should speedily and ruthlessly open the files to expose any and all of Fauci’s abuses of power.
The outgoing president acted to short-circuit incoming President Trump’s stated plans to exact retribution from perceived enemies.
Anthony Fauci was pardoned by Joe Biden before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, but what was the reason for the pardon?
On his way out of the White House on Jan. 20, Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon for, among others, his chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci. The week before, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took action that will help the nation recover from Dr.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded to President Joe Biden issuing him a preemptive pardon on Monday.
With just a few hours remaining in office, President Joe Biden issued a slew of pardons Monday morning to preemptively protect people President-elect Donald Trump had threatened.
Biden chose a date nearly six years before the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 were identified, adding an unexpected layer of intrigue to the act of clemency.
President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has elevated the problem of wasteful spending from think-tank white papers to a national cover story. With $36 trillion in
President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.”