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From:Clerk of the Board To:Mutony, Heather Cc:Lee, Lewis Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: The Contempt Vote They Scheduled Before Fauci Left the Hearing Room Date:Thursday, July 30, 2026 8:29:49 AM Attachments:image001.png Please see Board Correspondence - Lewis LeeAdministrative Technician - ConfidentialButte County Administration25 County Center Drive, Suite 200 • Oroville, CA 95965T: 530.552.3326www.buttecounty.ca.gov | lelee@buttecounty.ca.gov From: lance dreiss <lancedreiss@att.net> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2026 12:41 AM To: Shared Mailbox Clerk of the Board <pcbs@countyofplumas.com>; Assemblymember.Gallagher@assembly.ca.gov; Senator.Dahle@senate.ca.gov; davidhollister@countyofplumas.com; sheriff@countyofplumas.com; District Attorney <District_Attorney@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Nicolereinert@countyofplumas.com; Kitts, Melissa <mkitts@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Soderstrom, Monica <msoderstrom@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Ronald Owens <ronald@muzzledtruth.com>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Pickett, Andy <APickett@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Beaudoin, Jarett <JBeaudoin@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Julie Threet <julie4butte5@gmail.com>; Waugh, Melanie <mwaugh@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Teri DuBose <Teri.DuBose@mail.house.gov>; Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.ca.gov>; Stephens, Brad J. <BStephens@buttecounty.ca.gov> Subject: Fwd: The Contempt Vote They Scheduled Before Fauci Left the Hearing Room Public Record The Record Was Built On Purpose Watch what Paul did in the first ten minutes, and the vote stops looking like temper. He placed a red folder on the witness table containing a printout of 2 U.S.C. § 192 — the statute making it a crime for subpoenaed Congressional witnesses to refuse questions pertinent to the inquiry. Paul asked Fauci whether the folder was there in front of him. Fauci claimed the Fifth. He then read the presidential (auto-penned) pardon into the record: full and unconditional, dated January 19, 2025, reaching back to January 1, 2014. He asked whether Fauci had refused it, or believed it still required him to plead the Fifth. Fauci ‘Fifthed’ again. Then the sentence that matters more than any of the questions: “The chairman has denied your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer.” Fifth. And again. And roughly a hundred more times, through the many important questions asked by Senators Johnson, Lankford, Scott, Hawley, Moreno, Ernst, and Moody. Every one of those steps is a box on a form. The form is § 192. A witness must be asked a pertinent question, must refuse, must be directed by the chair to answer, and must refuse again. All four boxes are checked, on video, under oath. D2D Take: The theatrics got the coverage. The paperwork is what will matter in a year (let’s hope sooner). SIDEBAR — THE LADDER Rung 1 — Criminal contempt. 2 U.S.C. § 192. Committee vote, then full Senate. Certified to the U.S. Attorney for D.C. under § 194. A misdemeanor: up to twelve months in prison, plus a fine. Rung 2 — Civil enforcement. 2 U.S.C. § 288d. The Senate directs its Legal Counsel to sue for a court order compelling testimony. This is the rung that puts the pardon question in front of a federal judge— which is exactly what Paul has said he wants. Rung 3 — Immunity. 18 U.S.C. §§ 6002–6005. A two-thirds committee vote and a court order extinguish the privilege of the 5th Amendment outright, allowing the government to compel testimony. Refusal afterward is coercive contempt. diana dreiss Begin forwarded message: From: Meryl Nass from Meryl’s CHAOS letter <merylnass@substack.com> Date: July 29, 2026 at 4:24:58 PM PDT To: lancedreiss@att.net Subject: The Contempt Vote They Scheduled Before Fauci Left the Hearing Room Reply-To: Meryl Nass from Meryl’s CHAOS letter <reply+3gglqm&kcryl&&d5f5f3fc14c449b6869198a82e53376ba936cb63f53 6d1fd8b6d3e8306a6a00b@mg1.substack.com> Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) cross-posted apost from Duty to Dissent - Medical Conscience Over Conformity Meryl NassJul 29 · Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) If you want to know how the legal/legislative system will treat Fauci's refusal to say a single word in response to questions, here is the answer, crystal clear. The Contempt Vote They ScheduledBefore Fauci Left the Hearing Room Contempt Vote | On the Advice of Counsel™ Series, Issue #2 | July 29, 2026 W. CAMPBELL DOUGLASS, MD, MS JUL 29 READ IN APP Fauci declined to answer more than a hundred times - “On the advice ofcounsel.” Then Chairman Paul put a contempt resolution on next week’sSenate calendar. Here is what that can do — and what it can’t. ABOUT THIS SERIES Every installment of On the Advice of Counsel™ examines the July 29, 2026 Senate Homeland Security hearing, where Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. Watch the full hearing: YouTube · C-SPAN · Senate Committee page He Was Still in the Chair Nearly three hours had produced one sentence, delivered more than a hundred times, read off a card each time. Then, before the room emptied, Chairman Rand Paul said the thing that converts a hearing into a proceeding. The committee, he announced, has scheduled a vote next week on a resolution certifying Dr. Fauci’s contempt. Not we will consider it. Not we may refer this. Scheduled. Upgrade to paid The Record Was Built On Purpose Watch what Paul did in the first ten minutes, and the vote stops looking like temper. He placed a red folder on the witness table containing a printout of 2 U.S.C. § 192 — the statute making it a crime for subpoenaed Congressional witnesses to refuse questions pertinent to the inquiry. Paul asked Fauci whether the folder was there in front of him. Fauci claimed the Fifth. He then read the presidential (auto-penned) pardon into the record: full and unconditional, dated January 19, 2025, reaching back to January 1, 2014. He asked whether Fauci had refused it, or believed it still required him to plead the Fifth. Fauci ‘Fifthed’ again. Then the sentence that matters more than any of the questions: “The chairman has denied your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer.” Fifth. And again. And roughly a hundred more times, through the many important questions asked by Senators Johnson, Lankford, Scott, Hawley, Moreno, Ernst, and Moody. Every one of those steps is a box on a form. The form is § 192. A witness must be asked a pertinent question, must refuse, must be directed by the chair to answer, and must refuse again. All four boxes are checked, on video, under oath. D2D Take: The theatrics got the coverage. The paperwork is what will matter in a year (let’s hope sooner). SIDEBAR — THE LADDER Rung 1 — Criminal contempt. 2 U.S.C. § 192. Committee vote, then full Senate. Certified to the U.S. Attorney for D.C. under § 194. A misdemeanor: up to twelve months in prison, plus a fine. Rung 2 — Civil enforcement. 2 U.S.C. § 288d. The Senate directs its Legal Counsel to sue for a court order compelling testimony. This is the rung that puts the pardon question in front of a federal judge— which is exactly what Paul has said he wants. Rung 3 — Immunity. 18 U.S.C. §§ 6002–6005. A two-thirds committee vote and a court order extinguish the privilege of the 5th Amendment outright, allowing the government to compel testimony. Refusal afterward is coercive contempt. Next week’s vote is Rung 1 only. Anyone telling you a jail cell is imminent is skipping two rungs and a courthouse. Share Two theories, Not One Most coverage has fixated on the Biden (autopen) pardon. There are actually two independent arguments that Fauci had no privilege to assert, and the second is the stronger one. The pardon theory. Sen. Hawley put it on the record by name: Brown v. Walker, 1896 — when a witness has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege of 5th Amendment rights. No prosecution possible, no self- incrimination possible, no privilege. The waiver theory. Sen. Lankford raised it at the very end, and it’s cleaner. Lois Lerner gave an opening statement to a House committee in 2013 and then took the Fifth. She was held in contempt precisely because you cannot do both — testify, then refuse questions. Fauci delivered a three-paragraph opening statement under oath before invoking anything. The waiver theory doesn’t require litigating whether a pardon strips a constitutional privilege. It only requires that he opened his mouth first, which he did. D2D Take: His attorneys prepared for the pardon fight. It isn’t obvious they prepared for the opening statement. The Honest Forecast We are not going to tell you Fauci is going to prison. Rung 1 ends at the Department of Justice, and DOJ decides whether to charge for criminal contempt. Congressional contempt referrals die there routinely, under both parties. Can you imagine Fauci’s criminally contemptuous actions escaping justice at rung #1? Rung 2 is slower than it sounds. The full Senate has to vote, and then a federal judge has to agree. Federal Judges have not been friendly to the Fauci ‘file.’ And Fauci’s lawyers are not bluffing. Here is their argument in plain English: A presidential pardon covers federal crimes. It cannot reach a state prosecutor. Seventeen state attorneys general have already announced that Biden’s pardon does not bind them. That matters because of a 1964 Supreme Court decision, Murphy v. Waterfront Commission. The rule is simple: you may refuse to answer a question in a FEDERAL proceeding if a truthful answer could get you charged by a STATE. The pardon closed the federal door. Murphy says the state door is still open — and as long as one door is open, the Fifth Amendment still works. So this is not a dodge, though it looks like one. It is real law, and it is the strongest card Fauci holds. Now the bitter part. The state attorneys general already came after Fauci to increase his exposure. In doing so, they handed him the one thing he needed to stay silent. So the sober forecast is…a wrist slap, or nothing. And yet. For the first time, the machinery is moving in the right direction. The subpoena of Fauci was enforced by court order. He appeared under compulsion. A privilege was formally denied on the record. A contempt resolution has a date on it. More than a hundred questions from the Republican senators now sit in the Congressional Record, unanswered, permanently, under oath — about gain-of-function funding, about deleted federal records, about cash awards solicited with federal employees, about fifteen million dead. Silence is not acquittal. It is a procedural posture. The receipts don’t take the Fifth. Next Up The vote is on the calendar. Between now and then, every member of that committee is reachable — including the five Democrat senators who sat through three hours and never asked the witness a single question. That’s the next installment. ⚡ WHAT YOU CAN DO Make the Call (even if you’re a Democrat) — Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs: (202) 224-4751. One sentence: “I support the Fauci contempt resolution. Please vote yes.” Then call your own two senators — the resolution goes to the full Senate. Read the Record — 2 U.S.C. § 192 and § 194 - only about four hundred words combined. Read the statute Fauci wouldn’t confirm was sitting in front of him. Watch It Yourself — Paul’s directive and the folder exchange land in the first fifteen minutes of questioning. Break the Blackout — Most outlets report that Fauci pled the Fifth. Far fewer report that a contempt-of-Congress vote is already scheduled. Fix that. ❤️ Hit the Heart — He had a hundred chances to say something. You get one click. Leave a comment LIKE COMMENT RESTACK Originally posted on Duty to Dissent - Medical Conscience Over ConformityW. Campbell Douglass, MD, MS Subscribe Facilitating the COVID-era Medical Innovation Movement - chronicling physician courage in medicine's transformation from institutional capture to authentic patient care. 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