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[Regarding this story: ‘DOA’: That’s what Trump says about House Democrats’ coronavirus relief package] Apparently mail-in ballots are the line in the sand for Trump. Advertisement
Today the Supreme Court is livestreaming oral arguments for three cases relating to the production of Trump’s financial documents including his tax returns. Continue reading Live-blogging Supreme Court arguments over Trump’s tax returns
This aired on CBS’ 60 Minutes last night, and is one the most directly detrimental examples of science politicization I can recall reading about. Continue reading 60 Minutes documents the worst example of science politicization we can recall
Attorney General Bill Barr — Trump’s Roy Cohn — just saved Trump the political headache of pardoning Michael Flynn by doing it himself. No attorneys other than the one Barr installed signed the motion to drop the prosecution. Perfectly corrupt. Continue reading Trump’s Roy Cohn just saved him the political headache of pardoning Michael Flynn
[Regarding this story: Trump needs two electoral blocs to win. The pandemic is driving a wedge between them.] Trump derives much of his support from finding boogeymen fashioned from our basest instincts to scare the shit out of the elderly, his primary constituency. But now that the elderly have something to genuinely, legitimately fear — a virus with a sharply escalating lethality rate tethered to age, Trump is denying and minimizing the risk. Fox News, whose business model is roughly the same as Trump’s schtick, is sounding the same false choice — the economy is more important than your life. Advertisement
[Regarding this story: 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America] This is mostly a recap of the last month or so since Trump agreed to extend social-distancing guidelines. If you’re paying attention there’s nothing especially new, but helpful in identifying a few recurring themes. Continue reading History is going to be relentless and brutal about the Trump pandemic response Advertisement
Regarding testing… I don’t know how much mileage Trump thinks he’s getting from the claim that ‘we’ve done the most testing of any country’ in support of “reopening” the economy, but it’s a claim that begs some context. Continue reading Trump’s claims about how much testing we’re doing begs some context Advertisement
[Regarding this story: Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Two Months of Magical Thinking] Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman looks back at the tragic hole of lost time between January and March when Trump’s paranoia and magical thinking limited him to view the virus as an overhyped Democratic ploy to harm his reelection chances. The irony, of course, is that had he not dismissed those warnings his reelection chances would be far stronger. Advertisement
Missouri’s Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed suit against China, accusing it of “deceit, concealment, misfeasance, and inaction” in unleashing COVID-19 on the world. Wait, can foreign states be sued in US courts? Usually, no, and until 1952, never. Continue reading Missouri is suing China over COVID-19, and it’s just legal theater Advertisement
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… The choice between the economy and lives is a false one. Our collective internal risk calculus won’t simply flip from ‘unsafe’ to ‘safe’ because a governor lifts a stay-at-home order. |
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