They’ve got nothing on Judge Amy Barrett
The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle.
The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle.
The way this administration has handled the public disclosure of President Donald Trump’s condition will become a case study on mismanaging a chief executive’s personal health crisis. But then, what’s new? The Trump mishandling of the entire pandemic is already one for the ages. No one knows how many deaths can be attributed to the mixed messages, total lies and erroneous information peddled by POTUS and his people continuously minimizing the risk of the coronavirus.
Let’s make some wobbly assumptions and look to the future. Suppose the country survives the onslaught of lies — or “alternative facts,” as Kellyanne Conway (remember her?) used to call the stream-of-conscious gibberish Donald Trump tweets and screams at rallies — and Joe Biden wins the election. Then we get past all of Trump’s post-election chicanery or something even more serious and Biden is declared the winner.
The Texas Tribune is using data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track how many people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Texas each day. The state data comes from 57 city and county health departments, about 600 hospitals and 340 laboratories and the state vital records registration. It may not represent all cases of the disease given limited testing.
The day after Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas counties could allow bars to reopen, only one of the state’s 10 most-populous counties — Denton — has decided to take him up on the offer.