Oh, So Dr. Fauci's Pardon From Joe Biden Is Not 'Bulletproof'?

Oh, So Dr. Fauci's Pardon From Joe Biden Is Not 'Bulletproof'?

Dr. Fauci's pardon by Biden faces legal challenges amid gain-of-function and NIH funding controversy.

Biden's pardon doesn't erase Fauci's catastrophic legacy — it implies guilt

Acceptance of a presidential pardon carries legal weight. The Supreme Court once observed that accepting a pardon carries an implication of guilt. Former President Joe Biden’s accompanying remark that the grant to Anthony Fauci should not be mistaken for evidence of wrongdoing carries no judicial weight whatsoever. It is, one supposes, the sort of thing one says when the alternative might prove inconvenient. When Fauci accepted the broad pardon …