In a 28-page order, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty has ordered NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and other leading federal officials in charge of the response to Covid to be deposed (testify under oath) in Missouri v. Biden – in which NCLA Legal is representing plaintiffs including Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff against the Biden administration for its coercion of social media companies to violate free speech during Covid.
Discovery documents in the case previously revealed a vast federal censorship army, with more than 80 federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies having secretly coordinated with social media companies to censor private speech, in what plaintiff Aaron Kheriaty described as potentially “the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal Government’s executive branch in U.S. history”.
“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”
“For the first time, Dr. Fauci and seven other federal officials responsible for running an unlawful censorship enterprise will have to answer questions under oath about the nature and extent of their communications with tech companies,” said NCLA attorney Jenin Younes.
Judge Doughty’s order goes further than a previous ruling for written testimonies. Fauci and the other defendants will now have to testify under oath.
Apparently Judge Doughty is no big fan of “America’s doctor”. As the order states:
Next, Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci can prove he never communicated with social-media platforms about censorship, there are compelling reasons that suggest Dr. Fauci has acted through intermediaries, and acted on behalf of others, in procuring the social-media censorship of credible scientific opinions. Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci acted indirectly or as an intermediary on behalf of others, it is still relevant to Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion. The Court agrees.
Lastly, Plaintiffs argue that Dr. Fauci’s credibility has been in question on matters related to supposed COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ since 2020. Specifically, Plaintiffs state that Dr. Fauci has made public statements on the efficacy of masks, the percentage of the population needed for herd immunity, NIAID’s funding of ‘gain-of-function’ virus research in Wuhan, the lab-leak theory, and more. Plaintiffs urge that his comments on these important issues are relevant to the matter at hand and are further reasons why Dr. Fauci should be deposed. Plaintiffs assert that they should not be required to simply accept Dr. Fauci’s “self-serving blanket denials” that were issued from someone other than himself at face value. The Court agrees…
Finally, the Court is aware of a number of substantive reasons why Dr. Fauci’s deposition should be taken. The first is the publicly available emails that prove that Dr. Fauci was communicating and acting as an intermediary for others in order to censor information from being shared across multiple social-media outlets. The second is that Dr. Fauci has yet to give any statements under oath in this matter. The third is that the Court has no doubt that Dr. Fauci was engaging in communications with high-ranking social-media officials, which is extremely relevant in the matter at hand.
Michael P. Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. This post first appeared on his Substack page, which you can subscribe to here.
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The crook Fauci.
Hopefully he’ll have plenty of more dealing with judges.
Yes hoping too.
I signed The Barrington Declaration early on, the writers were those scientists, who were both censored and devalued in both the US and verbally in our parliament by a in my view a shabby dishonest contribution by Matt Hancock . If this US court case is successful could this give weight to prosecutions here too please?
I do hope so.
Incidentally, there was a hilarious quip of the horrible former health secretary (and Sino Sunak supporter) on GB News’s Dan Wooton show tonight. And a comment also on GB News (Mark Steyn?) about the MHRA getting 90% of their funding from former pharaceutical companies. Do you think the Yellow Card figure for “vaccine” deaths might possibly be on the low side?
I should add that it should have been blindingly obvious to one and all that something was up when Oxford professor Carl Heneghan (who notably succeeded in stopping PHE from counting anyone who died who had ever tested positive for “covid” as a “covid” death in August 2020) started getting censored.
Yes thanks I will look need humour too.
And it is not just a tangled web it’s a mangled web of deceit and will need to be unpicked so those who enabled this authoritarian censorship can be exposed. That’s the start I hope please god.
And another interesting fact to remember is that beloved Patrick Vallance held £600,000 worth of Big Pharma shares at the start of the deluge of Covid nonsense.
It was asked, might there possibly be a tiny conflict of interest?
Oh no! How preposterous! How could you suggest such a thing! After all, he isn’t the man that chooses which brand of bioweapon that will be pushed in your arm!!
I wonder what his shares are worth today? In any case he has received a second knighthood for his efforts.
And he is just one of these shithouse rats.
I think it might be 86 rather than 90% but that’s beside the point. It’s why the MHRA is now an “enabler” rather than a “regulator” according to their boss.
Please, give credit where credit is due – crook and murderer.
Good. Let’s see if he perjures himself.
I guess that, sadly, the death penalty is not imposed on perjury.
Fauci is finding himself mat the centre of a few things which are going to be difficult to explain. I do hope he doesn’t commit suicide.
There is a small possibility of a heart attack. However, Fraudci is such an inveterate liar that perhaps he will convince his handlers that he will be able to lie his way out of this.
I know little of the US judicial system but fear that this Order will be appealed to death?
Big tobacco’s eventual demise (although they still make billions) was initially procured via Discovery/Inspection, but it took decades to nail the bastards.
Let us hope for swifter justice this time – but don’t hold your breath.
I find myself hoping that Fauci doesn’t die before this process is completed. I want him in an American jail.
An American friend & I have decided that public humiliation in the being pelted with rotten produce would be the best punishment for this egotistical maniac. She also wondered whether being pelted with loaded syringes would be taking it a tad too far…. But as she said, dreams are not yet censored