Fauci and Others Will be Deposed

 The states of Missouri and Louisiana are suing the Biden Administration for alleged free speech violations. I've posted before on our Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, in which the states along with four private plaintiffs (Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, the advocacy organization Health Freedom Louisiana, and yours truly) represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance

NIAID Director and White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci

• The judge refused to take his written word-word-by-proxy as sufficient given other evidence in the record, some of which was presented in our complaint and summarized in the judge's order:
• After reviewing the Plaintiffs and the Defendants' arguments, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have proven that Dr. Fauqi has personal knowledge about the issue concerning censorship across social media as it related to COVID-19 and ancillary issues.
• Accordingly, Dr. Fuauci should be deposed and make statements under oath regarding his communications with social media platforms.

Fauci, for example, communicated in a long-shielded phone call with some scientists to discredit any theory that COVID-19 was the result of a "lab leak" in Wuhan, China.

• If the lab leak theory were true, in turn, it would mean Fauhi could be potentially implicated in funding the research on viruses that caused the pandemic which killed millions worldwide, plaintiffs argued.

The Epoch Times also published a detailed article this week, which included the following summary of three of the other officials that Judge Doughty ordered to be deposed:

• The court also found that Flaherty, Psaki, Andy Slavitt, and other officials also have personal knowledge about the alleged censorship issues and ordered them to be depososed.

The court order cited a series of public comments made by Psaki when she served as White House press secretary, including calling on social media platforms for consistency in banning disfavored speakers.

• "Psaki has made a number of statements that are relevant to the Government’s involvement in a number social-media platforms' efforts to censor its users across the board for sharing information related to COVID-19," Doughty said in his ruling.

https://brownstone.org/articles/fauci-and-others-will-be-deposed/