If Biden pardons people like Fauci for crimes like perjury, that would set a bad precedent.
There’s a reason why perjury is forbidden and if you just give pardons to any government official who committed crimes at the end of an administration that’s a very bad precedent.
One way out of that would be to find a different way to punish government criminals when they are pardoned. One aspect of a pardon is that they remove the Fifth Amendment defense.
You can subpoena pardoned people in front of Congress and ask them under oath to speak about all the crimes they committed that they can’t be prosecuted for because of the pardon. Then you can charge them for any lies where they didn’t volunteer information about pardoned crimes they committed.
If Biden pardons people like Fauci for crimes like perjury, that would set a bad precedent.
There’s a reason why perjury is forbidden and if you just give pardons to any government official who committed crimes at the end of an administration that’s a very bad precedent.
One way out of that would be to find a different way to punish government criminals when they are pardoned. One aspect of a pardon is that they remove the Fifth Amendment defense.
You can subpoena pardoned people in front of Congress and ask them under oath to speak about all the crimes they committed that they can’t be prosecuted for because of the pardon. Then you can charge them for any lies where they didn’t volunteer information about pardoned crimes they committed.