Thursday, March 5, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Chuck Schumer for comments about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/schumer-roberts-threats-supreme-court/index.html
Chief Justice John Roberts
issued a rare statement rebuking Chuck Schumer for comments the Senate
minority leader made about Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch
outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Schumer,
speaking at a rally of abortion rights supporters, appeared to threaten
Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's two Supreme Court
nominees who were confirmed after bruising nomination fights.
"I
want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have
released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what
hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," Schumer said,
turning to look at the Supreme Court building.
Schumer
went on to say, "The bottom line is very simple: we will stand with the
American people. We will stand with American women. We will tell
President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court with
right-wing ideologues, that you're gonna be gone in November and you
will never be able to do what you're trying to do now, ever, ever again.
You hear that over there on the far-right? You're gone in November."
Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman said criticism of the New York Democrat's comments are a "deliberate misinterpretation."
Up to 100,000 Israelis in isolation as Israel expands traveler quarantine
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Three-new-cases-of-coronavirus-announced-in-Israel-619680
“We have to understand, we are in the
midst of a global epidemic,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
during a press conference, “the most dangerous of these epidemics in the
last 100 years."
Woman diagnosed with coronavirus in US after a week in Israel
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/276873
Tourist from NY who visited
J'lem from February 23-27 diagnosed with the virus. Anyone who was in
her proximity asked to enter quarantine.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Stock Market Sinks 2.9 Percent After Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rate
https://time.com/5795105/stock-market-coronavirus-updates/
— Fear and uncertainty continue to control Wall Street, and stocks
fell sharply Tuesday after an emergency interest-rate cut by the Federal
Reserve failed to reassure markets wracked by worries that a fast-spreading virus will cause a recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial average sank 785 points, or
2.9%. It had surged 5% a day earlier on hopes for a broader set of
stimulus measures.
Why the U.S. Agreement With the Taliban to End the Afghanistan War Is a Bad Deal | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/why-us-agreement-taliban-end-afghanistan-war-bad-deal-opinion-1489926
As currently designed, this deal will completely demoralize the
current Afghan government and military by conveying undue legitimacy on
the wrong factions within the Taliban that are seeking to set the U.S.
up for failure; and it will ultimately be used by the same press that
gave platform to the killer Sirajuddin a weapon to attack this
administration when the peace plan ultimately falls apart.
Michael Bloomberg Drops Out of 2020 Race — And Backs Joe Biden
https://time.com/5795561/bloomberg-suspends-campaign/
Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City Mayor who belatedly upended the 2020 Democratic primary by infusing his campaign with half a billion dollars of his personal fortune, announced Wednesday morning that he was exiting the race and throwing his support behind former Vice President Joe Biden.
Michael Bloomberg Drops Out of 2020 Race — And Backs Joe Biden
https://time.com/5795561/bloomberg-suspends-campaign/
Michael Bloomberg, the
former New York City Mayor who belatedly upended the 2020 Democratic
primary by infusing his campaign with half a billion dollars of his
personal fortune, announced Wednesday morning that he was exiting the
race and throwing his support behind former Vice President Joe Biden.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused the media of overhyping
the 2019 coronavirus that’s infected nearly 80,000 people worldwide,
calling it "the common cold" and claiming, without evidence, that it’s
"being weaponized" as an attack on President Donald Trump.
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