In another story you likely heard little about and which may be the best news of 2022, unless you’re Anthony Fauci, last Friday a federal court in Louisiana overruled the federal government’s objections, and ordered Dr. Fauci and other government officials to sit for depositions under oath, and said “The Court sees the importance of having Dr. Fauci make statements under oath as it relates to the issues of this matter.”

What does this mean, it means “Mr. Science” is going to have to answer some hard questions!

The lawsuit, filed by the State of Missouri, alleges that Fauci and other government officials engaged in a corrupt scheme to deploy the full might of the U.S. government to illegally suppress Americans’ free speech during the pandemic. Examples cited in the Court’s order include:

1) the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election;
2) speech about the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origin;
3) speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns;
4) speech about election integrity and the security of voting by mail;
5) censorship and suppression of speech by Plaintiffs Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration;
6) censorship and suppression of Jim Hoft, owner of The Gateway Pundit, on social-media platforms;
7) censorship and suppression of Jill Hines, co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana and Reopen Louisiana on social-media platforms.
In support of its pending motion for a preliminary injunction, Missouri wants to take the expedited depositions of Tony Fauci (NIH), Rob Flaherty (White House), Andy Slavitt (White House), Jen Psaki (White House), Elvis Chan (FBI), Jen Easterly (CISA), Lauren Protenis (CISA), Vivek Murthy (Surgeon General), Carol Crawford (CDC), and Daniel Kimmage (State Dept.).

This is no trivial request folks, Missouri’s deposition requests were asking the Court for a lot. First off, there’s a doctrine protecting public officials from being deposed except under exceptional circumstances. They can’t be sitting in depositions all the time, they’d never get any of that important work they’re always claiming to do, done. Second, in the U.S., another doctrine protects public officials from having to sit for deposition quickly (or, ‘expedited’). You see their schedules are challenging, because they’re constantly involved in very important government business and have to be in meetings with super-duper important folks and stuff you know.

But the court found sufficient ‘extraordinary cause’ to overrule BOTH doctrines. So not only will Missouri get to depose Fauci and the others, but Missouri will be allowed to set the depositions at the speed of science.
Which according to Pfizer is like the “speed of light” or something like that.

It also appears that the Court has already found that Dr. Fauci WAS involved in censorship efforts, just from the publicly-available emails:

…the Court is aware of a number of substantive reasons why Dr. Fauci’s deposition should be taken. The first is the publicly available emails that prove that Dr. Fauci was communicating and acting as an intermediary for others in order to censor information from being shared across multiple social-media outlets…. [and] the Court has no doubt that Dr. Fauci was engaging in communications with high-ranking social-media officials, which is extremely relevant in the matter at hand.

Pay particular attention to the Court’s use of the word, “prove,” above. The judge wasn’t just saying Missouri’d “alleged” Fauci was involved in censorship. No siree bob, the Court said the publicly available emails “prove” it. That’s a galactic difference.

The Court then went through each of the other nine witnesses, one by one, and catalogued the factual reasons why “exceptional circumstances exist” for each government witness and explained why they must sit for an expedited deposition.

If you’re like me, you’ve been frustrated over the past 2 ½ years watching the courts remain silent on the loss of civil liberties, especially here in Canada, and when they did weigh in, most of the time siding with government and against freedom. There’s no doubt that the “wheels of justice” grind ever so slowly, but based on this news, at least we know they’re still grinding south of us and given this fight is a global one, that’s good news for all of us!

Here is the link to the legal filing:
https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/doc-90---order-regarding-witness-depositions.pdf?sfvrsn=24c99caa_2