President Donald Trump says he has absolute power to end the U.S. coronavirus shutdown. The Constitution says otherwise. Trumpâs assertion Monday runs headlong into the Constitutionâs limits on federal power and the explicit preservation of state authority through the 10th Amendment, a provision long championed by his Republican Party. Supreme Court decisions have said that, […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) authoritatively declared on Wednesday night that the American people understand that the economy needs to be reopened very soon and that when that happens, the deadly coronavirus is âgonna spread faster.â Appearing on Fox Newsâ Tucker Carlson Tonight, Kennedyâwhose home state has been one of the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemicâinsisted that social-distancing restrictions need […]
Donald Trumpâs declared suspension of funding of the World Health Organization in the midst of a pandemic is confirmation â if any were needed â that he is in search of scapegoats for his administrationâs much delayed and chaotic response to the crisis. The US is the WHOâs biggest donor, with funding over $400m a […]
Last Sunday in Tampa, Florida, the Pentecostal pastor and conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne conducted two services for full houses at his River church. The closely packed audience spent hours together taking in hymns and Howard-Browneâs extended sermon, even as the state implemented quarantine for New Yorkers, and projections estimated that Floridaâs coronavirus death toll would […]
President Trump considered allowing the novel coronavirus to “wash over” the US, The Washington Post reported Saturday. At the time some experts believed that the best way to deal with the crisis was to allow “herd immunity” to build. But Trump’s top scientific adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, warned the president that the policy would mean “many […]
WASHINGTON â Top White House advisers as well as experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies all sounded alarms and urged aggressive action to counter the threat from the coronavirus, but President Trump remained slow to respond, a detailed examination of the governmentâs response found. Mr. Trumpâs views were colored by long-running disputes inside the […]
WASHINGTON â âAny way you cut it, this is going to be bad,â a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public health experts scattered around the government and universities. âThe projected size of the outbreak […]
WASHINGTON â New U.S. government figures show novel coronavirus infections will spike during the summer if stay-at-home orders are lifted after 30 days as planned, the New York Times reported on Friday. If President Donald Trump lifts shelter-in-place orders after 30 days, the death toll is estimated to reach 200,000, the New York Times reported, […]
