Op-ed:

Overturning vs. Invalidating...Two Different Meanings

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor'

This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com 

...But the fact is that much to Fauci's and his attorney's surprise this itself might not hold true for the Constitution places specific limits on the power of the pardon, including its implying that a president cannot “preemptively pardon” someone for a crime they have not yet committed as it would violate the Article II mandate to, “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” 

 

“Not yet committed”...countless multitudes died during the covid pandemic, so here it becomes a game of word semantics for with Fauci legally not yet charged with having committed any tangible crime...remember lying under oath is a misdemeanor...a case could still be made regarding the fact that Biden's actual pardon of Fauci when given was legally “invalid,”...which would now open up an interesting can of worms.

 

....remember lying under oath is a misdemeanor...a case could still be made regarding the fact that Biden's actual pardon of Fauci when given was legally “invalid,”...which would now open up an interesting can of worms...Read entire article here.

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Op-ed:

Overturning vs. Invalidating...Two Different Meanings

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor'

This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com

“I dedicate this, my 38th Covid article,* to those who died from what I believe were the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci...may justice finally be served in their name.”

When the Covid-19 pandemic first started during the later end of his first term in office, President Trump praised Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “wonderful man,” “a terrific guy,” and “a good man and friend” during what were early White House Task Force briefings. But even during the pandemics early days I started to suspect that something wasn't right for while coronaviruses can be naturally occurring, it was the discourse surrounding this one particular strain of coronavirus...the virus now known as Covid-19...along with its extremely fast rate of deadly spread...that led me to believe that we were deliberately being lied to not knowing at the time that Trump himself was being deliberately lied to by Fauci with much malice intended.

And so my search for truth began, and after doing a vast amount of medical research and then speaking directly to a number of folks in the medical field, I came to the belief that covid-19 was not...I repeat not...a naturally occurring coronavirus but was instead a cleverly crafted, genetically engineered, bio-weapon designed to masquerade as a virus. And why exactly the masquerade...because I believed then what I still believe today, that this particular strain of virus was designed not only to “cull the population”... as per UN Agendas 30 and 50...but also to try to alter the course of the then upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Simply, in my personal opinion, Dr. Anthony Fauci is not only the architect of mass murder who knowingly and willingly helped create through his partnered “Gain of Function” research with Communist China what I do believe to be the bio-weapon driven Covid-19 virus itself, but that he was the one who pushed the hardest for a vaccine...aka “the jab”...in order not to protect folks from catching the virus, but to directly infect or make those who had not yet been infected much more likely to catch the virus. Thankfully, some of us were wise enough to ignore the fear mongering and not roll up our sleeves to be “jabbed” and then “boosted”...see the vast majority of us still to this day being Covid free.

And I tell you this backstory because why would a claimed to be “innocent man” take “the fifth” 111 times...as Fauci did on July 29, 2026 during a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee...for the actions he was pardoned for, if for no other reason than he greatly feared the real truth being publicly exposed, which could leave Fauci facing “vigilantly justice” to the nth degree...no matter the pardon in place.

Now here I must state that NO presidential pardon can be legally “overturned” either by Congress or by a future president. Why so...because while Article II of the Constitution gives the president alone the “absolute power of the pardon,” it provides no mechanism for a current or future president to rescind a pardon already given. However, individuals who have been pardoned can still be prosecuted and held in “contempt of Congress” for perjury, but only if it's proven that said person did lie while under oath in regards to a federal crime having been committed and thus been granted a pardon for.

And this is where Committee Chair Rand Paul comes in when last Thursday the committee voted 8-5 along party lines to hold Fauci in “contempt” for declining 111 times...via his evoking “the fifth”...to answer questions about his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as for past testimony to Congress regarding what was U.S. funded “gain of function” research. And as the what are misdemeanor“contempt” charges moves on to the attorney general's office for certification, Fauci well could face up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine, with the likelihood of his again being called to testify as soon as he is released, And so it surely will continue on ad-nauseam.

So don't rush to cheer the “contempt” charge for even if Fauci is “orange-jumpsuited” this punishment, if adjudicated, is nowhere near the scope of what Fauci committed nor does it negate or render “invalid” the “blanket pardon” Biden gave him...or does it... more on that it a bit.

And while what is a “blanket pardon” still only applies to presidential pardons given for federal level offenses or crimes committed, that does not mean that Fauci won't be charged on the state level for that was already in the works even before the “contempt” ruling was reached. So let's not celebrate a victory here, for the fact is that while state laws cannot override what is given federal authority, especially with what are legally deemed to be “interstate matters” relating to federal health guidelines usually, but not always, falling outside of what are also deemed  “local and state criminal codes”

So with Fauci now in “contempt,” and with his actual diary** showing that he blatantly lied about the Covid virus itself, his involvement in its “Gain of Function” research, and the ensuing cover-ups, the anything but “good doctor” still is free...for now anyway... from prosecution for anything he did during the Covid pandemic because his pardon remains in place even with it having been signed with the infamous auto pen. Why so...because the fact remains that the pardon was properly finalized, delivered, and accepted by Fauci, so it “seems to be” legally irrevocable...with “seems to be” the operative words here...also more on that in a bit.

And besides, right now any charges brought against Dr. Fauci might still be difficult to prove. Why so... because to date, as I write this, and it's no matter the recent misdemeanor level “contempt” charge against him, no actual nor tangible criminal charges have been officially filed against Fauci by any local, state, federal, or international court...charges like having committed any violent crimes, homicides, or murder.

Thankfully though, that particular aspect might start to change for here in my “Free State of Florida” (thank you Governor DeSantis)...our Attorney General James Uthmeier has now issued an investigative subpoena to Fauci as part of an official investigation into the awards, professional opportunities, financial incentives, grants, and Covid-19 guidance that impacted Florida businesses and consumers.

But if and when charges are actually filed, and if when questioned Fauci again invokes “the 5th,” the good news is that this time there’s a caveat attached, because now it would be a state attorney bringing criminal charges against him, and not the federal government.

And while Fauci and his legal team would likely contest this on the grounds that any statements he made, and any policies he put into place while the Covid pandemic was ongoing were directly “work related”...meaning they were part of his “federal role” in heading the “National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases” (NIAID)...and thus would remain covered by his Biden issued “blanket” pardon.

But the fact is that much to Fauci's and his attorney's surprise this itself might not hold true for the Constitution places specific limits on the power of the pardon, including its implying that a president cannot “preemptively pardon” someone for a crime they have not yet committed as it would violate the Article II mandate to, “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

“Not yet committed”...countless multitudes died during the covid pandemic, so here it becomes a game of word semantics for with Fauci legally not yet charged with having committed any tangible crime...remember lying under oath is a misdemeanor...a case could still be made regarding the fact that Biden's actual pardon of Fauci when given was legally “invalid,”...which would now open up an interesting can of worms.

How so...because if this holds any semblance of being legally true, then Dr. Fauci's pardon itself becomes not only “invalid” but “null and void,” which means that actual federal charges can then be leveled against the evil doctor because Biden's pardon would not have been “overturned”...which cannot be done...but actually “invalidated” which legally is quite different in meaning than is “overturned.”

Now in regards to the states, presidential pardons are Constitutionally specific in regards to pardoning state crimes or acting before an offense needing pardoning occurs. So how then does that apply to Biden's pardon of Fauci? Because the courts themselves, whether they be federal or state level courts, can then declare Fauci's pardon “legally void” because said pardon never had what's known as “valid legal force” behind it. And what is “valid legal force” but a fully binding, active, and enforceable document, meaning that the pardon given meets all rules and formal requirements, thus carrying the official weight of the law, which is not the case here.

Why so...because Biden's pardon provided Fauci with no protection for new statements made...hence his constant taking “the fifth”...which actually does negate the 6th amendment's guarantees for fair trials to take place. And how can a fair trial...or a fair inquiry...even be conducted when someone constantly takes the “the fifth”...it cannot. And even with a federal pardon carrying no weight on the state level, how then on the state level can this be fair if Fauci again regurgitates “the fifth”...be fair to all those whose lives were lost or changed by this one man....simply it cannot.

And while I'm not a attorney nor have I ever professed to be one...I do know it's been proven many times over that sometimes outsiders do see something even the experts miss, or that sometimes the needed something was hiding in plain sight all along. And I believe “hiding in plain sight” to be the case as it relates to Dr. Fauci's pardon even though what I am about to tell you is so very different in its pardon content, but not in its rightful outcome.

In 1974, in Hoffa v. Saxbe, 378 F. Supp. 1221 (D.D.C. 1974) a federal district court reaffirmed that a presidential pardon is not “limitless,” but that when issuing any pardon it must be “representative of all the People, and must always exercise it in the public interest.” Tell me how Biden's pardon of Fauci was in the public's interest...it simply was not for its only interest was to protect Fauci from federal charges, while still leaving the public open to any future harm Fauci's covid nightmare might cause, with past harm done becoming“null and void.”

Simply, Joe Biden's pardon of Fauci should be legally rendered “invalid” and thus be“invalidated,” with federal charges now officially being leveled against him while state charges move forward as well.

So with Fauci's pardon already having no “valid legal force” over “state-level crimes”...if Florida and our other 49 states were each to bring charges against Fauci of let's say “conspiracy to commit and then perpetrate fraud” while failing to admit his role in helping to not only develop the virus ...resulting in thousands of deaths in each of the what would then be the plaintiff's states...while using “interstate commerce” as the prime  means by which to transport what was the rushed to market, barely tested, “Operation Warp Speed” initiated Covid vaccine...Fauci might well be facing serious jail time on top of now hopefully reinstated federal charges.

The simple word “invalid” has been hiding in plain sight, and why the “experts” did not pick up on it is surprising, but hopefully now they will, and justice for Fauci's victims might finally be served. Case closed.

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Footnotes

* Click to read my 38 covid articles in full here.

** Read Fauci's diary here. 

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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Op-ed: 

Circumnavigating a Presidential Pardon...Maybe 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.  

“Nothing in life is absolute except birth, death, and taxes” as the old saying goes. But regarding absolutes I'll add to those words that neither are our federal, state, or local laws for even the Constitution itself has been amended time and time again; Supreme Court decisions have been overturned; and laws ranging across all government levels have been overturned, amended or totally rewritten when legal “loopholes” were found.

In the early morning hours of January 20, 2025...the very day Donald J. Trump was to be sworn in as America's 47th president...then still President Joe Biden issued “preemptive pardons” to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley,* Liz Cheney and other members of the House Select Committee's investigation into the January 6th, what was never an “insurrection.” Then just minutes before he officially was to leave office, Biden did what just days before he said he would not do, as in he issued “preemptive” pardons for his brother James Biden and his wife Sara; his sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John; and his youngest brother Francis for “unspecified crimes.”   

But ”unspecified crimes” is quite the misnomer for many of us are well aware of what said crimes might actually be, in fact there's a multitude of crimes to chose from. But for now we simply don't know exactly which crimes, if any, the Bidens might have committed that they deserved being pardoned for.

So here let's first discuss what I believe these family pardons were issued for.

During questioning by reporters regarding these pardons Joe Biden claimed that for him not to do so would have left his family open to “politically motivated investigations” after he's left office...as in “revenge” by the now Trump administration...the very thing Biden and his people relished in doing to Trump and his family before, during, and after the 2020 election. In fact, these particular “preemptive pardons” were not coincidentally issued...and this key...because they were issued only after House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer publicly announced and requested that Donald Trump's incoming Department of Justice investigate, and if enough evidence was found, to then move forward with prosecuting Biden's family members now pardoned regarding their allegedly making “false statements to Congress” during what was then an ongoing “impeachment” inquiry regarding President Joe Biden himself.

In fact, when further questioned about these pardons specifically relating to “unspecified crimes,” Joe Biden arrogantly stated that, “The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.” And while that might be true to some legal extent, the fact does remain that while “specificity” is but an unsaid requirement for a presidential pardon, many legal and Constitutional scholars...Alexander Hamilton himself being one...have stated in their writings that regardless of what amounts to the “unrestricted and vague language in the Constitution’s pardon clause” our “Framers” knew well that there should be “specificity”...as in naming charges leveled...regarding any pardons issued.

And how do we know this...because the historical analysis and commentary from those persons stated above do tend to agree that the Constitution's “Framers” based presidential pardon power on the British monarch's power to pardon...as it was a well-established practice at the time the Constitution was being written...along with the fact that it was not objected to at the time.

A simple oversight on our “Framers” part perhaps, but the fact remains that presidential pardons do extend to all “federal criminal offenses,” and that said offenses... whether one is formally charged or not...are usually named either before, during, or after an official federal investigation or inquiry has takes place, especially one that does involve the possible “impeachment” of a then sitting U.S. president. Now here also know that the Constitution's “pardon clause” specifically provides for but two limits on said power with the first being that “clemency”...as in a pardon...may only be granted for “Offenses against the United States,”...meaning state “criminal offenses” and federal or state civil claims are not covered by said pardon; and second that a president’s “clemency” (pardon) authority cannot ever be used in “Cases of Impeachment,” but nowhere does the Constitution give a time frame nor a time limit for when an inquiry or actual “impeachment” proceedings must take place.

In fact, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution clearly states that, “he (meaning the president) shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” And it's here where the timing of Biden's family pardons also comes into play along with its corresponding “cause and effect” clearly relating back to what was an official federal inquiry regarding the possible “impeachment” of Joe Biden himself, the very thing which presidential pardons...as in presidential “clemency” authority...cannot ever be issued for...that cannot be repeated enough.

Simply, the “preemptive pardons” Biden gave to his family not only goes against the Constitution's own words, “except in Cases of Impeachment,” but the Bidens believed to be “false statements” were given during what was an official “impeachment” inquiry thus it directly relates to the very thing the Constitution forbids any president from doing. And while no court or Congress can overturn a presidential pardon...an act of “clemency” in showing “mercy, compassion, or forgiveness” to one who has gone through the legal system...as in those who have been charged, tried, convicted, with sentence adjudicated for a “federal criminal offense” committed...no formal charges against the Bidens...to date...have been leveled against them. 

And yet Comer still wants the matter looked into for charges of “impeachment” can still be leveled against Joe Biden even after the fact that he's no longer in office, for again, the Constitution gives no time limit for when an “impeachment” inquiry, charges being leveled, or an actual “impeachment” trial must take place,

Again, another possible oversight by our “Framers,” but one that can actually work to help negate Biden's family pardons issued if, and I only say if, Trump's incoming DOJ and its new AG Pam Bondi do decide there's validity to HOC Chair Comer's request to look into what's believed to be the “false statements to Congress” made by Biden's family members during what was an official “impeachment”  inquiry. And if found to be true then Joe Biden himself might well be in deep trouble what with both chambers of Congress having the power to proceed, at any time, with an “impeachment” inquiry, hearing, and trial against any executive branch official, including an ex-president, that has either resigned from office or left office as per term limits.

Now here I know that some will say that I am playing a misplaced game of “word semantics” in regards to the word “impeachment”...which is the very heart of the matter...as well as what I've presented being but mere conjecture on my part, but with Joe Biden's ever so convenient timing regarding the issuance of said family pardons being anything but a coincidence, and with his having added the word “preemptive” to these pardons, the fact remains that what Biden has actually done is to put the final nail in his own legacy's coffin for he pardoned those who seemingly (and I believe deliberately) made “false statements to Congress” during what was an official “impeachment” inquiry.

But here let's circle back for a bit to the specific word “preemptive” for “pre” anything means before the fact or before an action is taken, And while, in this case, no action was taken at that time to move forward with charges of “impeachment,” that in no way negates the fact that the Biden family were believed to have given “false statements” during what was an official House “impeachment” inquiry, a criminal offense under the U.S. Code of Laws.

In fact, false statement charges under 18 USC Section 1001 may be brought against someone who makes a “false statement” to an agent or agency of the federal government (the House Oversight Committee and/or James Comer himself likely meets the broad sense of this definition), and did so in connection with a federal matter...which an “impeachment” inquiry surely is. And while said statement must be “materially” false to be illegal...as in it having a “natural tendency to influence or is capable of influencing” the agent the statement is made to...as well as it being relevant to finding, charging, or convicting the one being looked into...as in Joe Biden...in my opinion any “false statements” made by Biden's family would obviously be made to try and stop Joe Biden's “impeachment” inquiry from moving forward.

In other words, if someone willfully gives a knowingly “false statement”...a“material statement”...and it meets the element of “materiality”...which I believe is what James Comer now might suspect is what these “unspecified crimes" relates to...and if the right attorneys are involved...attorneys who can “dot all the I's and cross all the legal T's”...nothing will negate the fact that the inquiry in question would surely expose wrongdoing by Biden's family in that it revolved around the word “impeachment,” the very thing which Joe Biden cannot Constitutionally pardon anyone for. 

 

So logic then dictates that with the process having legally been played out, it would show these pardons to be “invalid,” and therefore would not “stand.” And who knows, but maybe in the end both Joe Biden and his family members could possibly be staring at four walls. 

Now as for Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose pardon does have a time frame attached to it as it's backdated to 2014 the year a U.S. ban on “gain of function virus research” took effect...the very research Fauci has been rightfully accused of outsourcing to China...that does not negate the fact that an actual presidential pardon, as per Constitutional law, can only relate to federal criminal “offenses against the United States”... which Fauci's actions clearly make a case of being.

So while Joe Biden’s pardon, unfortunately, does protect Fauci from immediate “criminal prosecution,” it does not garner him a “get out of jail free” card for it does not pardon Fauci for any future crimes he might commit nor will said pardon stop any Department of Justice investigation from going forward if they so choose to do so. In fact, Fauci's pardon, as written, also leaves the door open for state and/or individual charges, as well as civil lawsuits to be leveled against him.

Remember, states have the authority and the right to pursue “charges” against Fauci, and then prosecute him under their own state laws especially if a state's AG can prove “fraud” in that Dr. Fauci did knowingly misrepresent facts to influence state decisions which, in turn, led them to spend “unnecessary amounts” of taxpayer monies for “fraudulent reasons.” Also, civil lawsuits initiated by private citizens can, and hopefully soon will...be filed by those who were directly harmed by Fauci’s “fraudulent decisions”...decisions enacted that directly led to a loved ones suffering and/or death; his causing what is legally known as “reckless endangerment” regarding harmful government policies enacted on his recommendations; and in certain cases by individuals being forced by Fauci's policies to get “jabbed” or lose their job and income.

And dare not forget that foreign governments and/or its citizens can also bring charges against Dr. Fauci for crimes committed against their countries and people. In fact, the Constitution in Article III, Section II, Clause I, authorizes the federal courts to hear certain cases that involve foreign states, but does not expressly provide foreign states a right of access to U.S. federal courts. However...and this is key...the U.S. Supreme Court has held that “a foreign sovereign, as well as any other foreign person, who has a demand of a civil nature against any person here, may prosecute it in our courts.” And this ruling was based upon general international law principles of comity,* and in part on the fact that the Constitution expressly extends the judicial power to controversies between a “State, or citizens thereof,” and “foreign States, citizens, or subjects,” without reference to the subject-matter of the controversy.

And lastly, remember, Fauci not only repeatedly made public statements about treatments, vaccines, boosters, and pandemic policies that have proven to be inaccurate, misleading, or even outright lies, but that he also perjured himself on numerous occasions during the pandemic itself. And most importantly, the ever vile Dr. Anthony Fauci has yet to come clean about the true nature of both his and the NIAIs ties to China's infamous “Wuhan Lab of Virology”...the very lab that through “gain of function research”...which Fauci approved U.S. grant monies for...took what was a naturally occurring bat virus and genetically manipulated it into becoming Covid-19, or what I believe was actually a bio-weapon released...accidentally released a bit too early perhaps...but with its intended purpose achieved...which the over seven plus million** victims families can surely attest to.

Simply, Biden's pardon was given to a man who stills claims he did nothing wrong...so why then did he accept said pardon? I guess that when one is stuck between a legal “rock and a hard place“ of their own doing even minimal protection is better than none. 

And in regards to both Joe Biden's family pardons and Dr. Anthony Fauci's pardon, remember as I stated in the beginning of this article, “nothing is legally absolute.” And to that I do say, cases closed.

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** Comity legally explains that to deny a sovereign (as in a foreign nation) the privilege of access to court would manifest a want of “comity and friendly feeling.”

 

** The seven plus million death toll number is based upon the last official tally by worldometer.

 

Author's Note: In this article I have only dealt with the Biden family members and Dr. Anthony Fauci's pardons due to article word length and publishing constraints...the others might or night not be the subject of a follow-up article. 

 

Copyright © 2025 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

 

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