Contempt

• A Senate committee voted on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a COVID-19 pandemic hearing. • In a separate diplomatic clash, the Trump administration revoked the visa of Brazilian ambassador Maria Luiza Viotti following Brazil's denial of visas for two U.S. diplomats. • An offshore wind company has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with the Trump administration to abandon development projects off the coasts of New York, California, and Louisiana.

Anthony Fauci invoked fifth amendment dozens of times to parry hostile Republican inquisition over Covid responseUS politics live – latest updatesA Republican-controlled US Senate committee voted to hold Dr Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the veteran public health official repeatedly pleaded the fifth amendment to parry a hostile inquisition into his stewardship of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.Fauci, the former director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), who led the agency for 38 years before retiring in 2022, gave the same response to multiple questions while refusing to give clarifying answers during a tense hearing last week, citing his constitutional protections. Continue reading...

Veteran US health official invoked fifth amendment right amid hostile questioning from Republicans last weekUS politics live – latest updatesA US Senate committee says it obtained a backup copy of Anthony Fauci’s iPhone as it weighed whether to hold the veteran government health official in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer Republicans’ questions amid a hostile inquisition last week.The phone was used by Fauci during his time as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, including his time fronting the first Trump administration’s response to the Covid pandemic in 2020. Continue reading...