Fauci Pleads the Fifth in Heated Senate Hearing

Just what exactly is Dr. Fauci hiding? He invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times and refused to answer questions in today’s U.S. Senate hearing about the origins of COVID-19 and the shocking revelations found in his released diary.

One entertaining exchange from today involved Fauci declining to answer the question, to which Senator Rand Paul (KY) responded: “Let the record record that the witness has refused to answer whether there’s a folder in front of him based on his Fifth Amendment right.”

And don’t forget Fauci has already been pardoned by President Biden for any offenses he committed in his capacity as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. So he should be able to answer some questions about COVID six years after the pandemic.

Paul has already scheduled a hearing on August 5 to determine whether the once-esteemed doctor will be held in contempt of Congress. Paul told Fauci, “It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions for your refusal to testify.” We will see if Fauci suffers any consequences for today’s embarrassing display.

The ACLJ also has an update in our fight to defend a Christian girl who was forced to attend an “Inclusion Assembly” at her public school. When our client informed school authorities that the assembly violated her Christian beliefs, she was told, “You have no choice” but to attend. We intervened, and after the school ignored our demand letter, we filed a federal lawsuit.

This is the third time over the years that we’ve had to help this brave girl. We’ve offered Highline Public Schools three chances to correct course and cease the religious animus occurring within the school district. Each time, the district minimized, deflected, or simply denied wrongdoing.

For our next step, we’ve filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in our client’s case against Highline Public Schools. We are asking the court to restore the notice-and-opt-out protection the school district unilaterally abandoned, and make it clear to every teacher and administrator at Sylvester Middle School that a student’s religious objection must not be ignored.

The law here is clear: Parents, not schools, have the right to direct their child’s faith. One year ago, in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court held that public schools substantially burden parents’ free exercise rights when they compel children to sit through instruction that poses “a very real threat of undermining” the religious beliefs their parents are raising them to hold. When that happens, the Constitution requires advance notice and a genuine opt-out – and the Court ordered exactly the kind of relief we’re now asking this court to enter.

If anything, this case presents a worse violation of religious liberty than Mahmoud. The school board in Mahmoud never gave parents an opt-out. Here, Highline gave our clients an opt-out for years, and then suddenly revoked that right without warning right before an “Inclusion Assembly” that contained slides telling students that dissent “will not be allowed.”

And unlike in Mahmoud, our client didn’t just lack a policy protecting her. She spoke up in the moment, told two staff members directly, while in tears, that the content conflicted with her Christian faith, and was told point-blank she had “no choice” but to return and sit through it.

The Free Exercise Clause forbids such coercion by school officials. Parents do not surrender their constitutional rights the moment they enroll their children in public school, and no student should be told her faith doesn’t count the moment she has the courage to voice it.

We will keep fighting to defend our client’s right not to have her faith violated at school.
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Today’s Sekulow broadcast included a full analysis of Dr. Fauci’s suspicious silence on Capitol Hill today and the latest developments in our case to defend a young girl in Washington.

Watch the full broadcast below: