Marjorie Taylor Greene offers bills to fire Fauci, ban vaccine passports
Source: The Hill
BY TAL AXELROD - 04/01/21 12:27 PM EDT
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced two bills Thursday that would eliminate Anthony Fauci’s salary and ban vaccine passports.
Greene’s "Fire Fauci Act" would cut the salary for Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease expert, to zero. It is unclear if such a cut could be authorized even if the legislation is passed.
According to the conservative firebrand, the cut would be made until a new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is “confirmed by the Senate.” However, the NIAID director’s appointment is not subject to Senate confirmation.
The "We Will Not Comply Act" would “ban” vaccine passports — documents that show that Americans have been vaccinated — by prohibiting businesses engaged in interstate commerce from using them to allow patrons to access their services.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/545992-marjorie-taylor-greene-offers-bills-to-fire-fauci-ban-vaccine-passports
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I don't give a damn that your high-priced lawyer got you acquitted! I know 'twas you who murdered Mr Boddie in the Kitchen with the Candlestick!
Just don't ask what Miss Scarlet and I were doing in the lounge! 
Well, number one:
A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of persons, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted person's civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself. Bills of attainder passed in Parliament by Henry VIII on 29 January 1542 resulted in the executions of a number of notable historical figures.
The use of these bills by Parliament eventually fell into disfavour due to the obvious potential for abuse and the violation of several legal principles, most importantly the right to due process, the precept that a law should address a particular form of behaviour rather than a specific individual or group, and the separation of powers.
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United States
Colonial era
Bills of attainder were used throughout the 18th century in England, and were applied to British colonies as well. Some colonists were inspired to the American Revolution because of anger at the injustice of attainder. Although at least one American state, New York, used a 1779 bill of attainder to confiscate the property of British loyalists (called Tories) as both a penalty for their political sympathies and means of funding the rebellion, American dissatisfaction with British attainder laws resulted in their being prohibited in the U.S. Constitution ratified in 1789.
Constitutional bans
Excerpt from Article One, Section 9 of the United States Constitution, prohibiting the passing of bills of attainder
The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder: in federal law under Article I, Section 9, and in state law under Article I, Section 10. The fact that they were banned even under state law reflects the importance that the Framers attached to this issue.
Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions – since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed".
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I don't want some diseased jackass who refuses to get a vaccine sitting next to me in public no matter what the situation, and I felt this way ever since before COVID.
