The Liberty Daily 
(WND)—Legal experts have described, in an analysis posted by the Federalist, a number of ways that state authorities may be able to hold Anthony Fauci accountable.
The key is that while he has a Joe Biden pardon, and multiple other protections as a former government employee, there are certain things for which Biden’s COVID-19 adviser is not legally immunized.
“I am very much in the camp that Fauci lied to the American people, and he deserves to be held accountable for those lies, both at the state and federal level,” America First Policy Institute Senior Fellow Chad Mizelle told The Federalist. “I certainly think that state governments have options in pursuing claims against Fauci, and I very much hope that they will.”
The analysis explained:
There are a lot of sordid government figures in need of real accountability for abusing their power against the American people. But perhaps none other is more deserving than Dr. Anthony Fauci.
As White House Covid czar during the Trump and Biden presidencies, Fauci was tasked with overseeing the governmental response to the viral outbreak. While marketed as the leading authority on all things Covid-19, Americans would learn in the years that followed that the self-absorbed health official and his allies’ conduct throughout the pandemic amounted to everything but ‘following the science.’”
In fact, Fauci insisted he WAS the “science.”
But in recent weeks government documents have revealed Fauci’s obsession with his own self-promotion, collusion with corporate media, and numerous falsehoods he told the public about the virus and its origins, the analysis confirmed.
They include texts from Fauci, formerly chief of the National Institute and Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about COVID’s risks to pregnant women — risks that he and others did not disclose to the public.
He is protected by the pardon from Biden. And during a congressional hearing he insisted of self-protecting, by invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times when asked about his work.
Further the 1988 Westfall Act effectively “immunizes all federal employees” if charged in state courts over what they did for their government duties.
It essentially means that such claims are against the federal government, not the individual.
The analysis, however, explained, ‘According to Mizelle and Hans Mahncke, a Federalist contributor and the founder of the Counterlawfare Institute, that doesn’t mean there are no avenues state prosecutors can look to when investigating the former health official for purported violations of the law.”
Mizelle, a former Department of Justice official, confirmed because of the “children’s learning loss, business losses from lockdown policies,” and so forth, “state attorneys general might want to examine action under consumer protection and deceptive practices statutes. He noted that while such laws have been used to go after major corporations and organizations for ‘intentionally deceiving consumers,’ they could also potentially provide a route to pursue Fauci,” the analysis confirmed
Another path cold be a “mass tort action,” much like what could be argued over an oil company’s “negligent” conduct that results in a massive spill damaging states and residents.
Mahncke recommended states “throw everything at it and try and find a court that will take it.”
The analysis noted, “The Counterlawfare Institute founder said the ‘trick’ for state prosecutors will be to find an avenue where the Westfall Act does not apply. He noted that one potential way around it may be found in Fauci’s efforts to suppress the lab-leak theory and obscure his role in funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan.”
While Fauci privately admitted COVID probably did not come from a Wuhan market, that’s what he was insisting to the public.
Further, the analysis confirms, “The former NIAID director notably played a role in approving funds to the nongovernmental group EcoHealth Alliance, which, from 2014-2020, shipped ‘more than half a million dollars’ worth of U.S. government grants … to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to conduct gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.”
One expert pointed out, “Covering up Covid’s origin to conceal Fauci’s own role is fundamentally different. The government did not employ Fauci to protect Fauci. It did not authorize him to suppress the truth, conceal his own conduct, or prevent the public from discovering wrongdoing in which he was implicated.”
Mahnke said, “Westfall protects officials who commit wrongs while doing the government’s work. It does not protect officials who use government power to hide their own wrongdoing.”
The analysis said, “Mahncke advised like-minded state attorneys general to hold a strategy meeting to ‘figure out how you’re going to go about it,’ and to assemble ‘experts on Westfall who know the case law inside out.”
Already, state officials in Florida, Louisiana, and West Virginia have demanded testimony from Fauci.
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