They wanted to stop relief because they wanted to force people back out into the workplace.
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Every single thing you look at it, it comes down to nothing but that.
It's not great that people around the president are very explicitly calling for violent insurrection as that kind of go-to final recourse to steal the election.
If that's all you know about Dan Crenshaw, it might surprise you to learn that a number of veterans groups are now calling on him to resign from Congress.
Trump will likely be consumed by criminal and civil litigation for the rest of his life. That is his problem. It should not be Joe Biden's.
I think it's fair to say the failure on Coronavirus, the explicit failure not through incompetence, not good-faith mistakes, but the cynical pursuit of a strategy that led to tens, if not hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily dead…
If I'm Joe Biden, I hope that Joe Biden has as a number one priority, reinstating all the whistleblowers who got knocked out.
Muslim Americans and Latino Americans and immigrants documented and otherwise right now are in fear for what the country just did and for what our country means, not just what Trump will do, but what it means that our country just endorsed…
If the pardon power is used to prevent the discovery of another crime or to prevent the implication of the executive himself or herself, that -- I mean, I know the pardon power is black letter law of the Constitution, but it's -- if it is…
I mean, this is -- it's worth contending anew with the threat to the republic of having a felon in the White House.
I think all of us are -- however you feel about the election, I think a lot of us, maybe all of us, are praying for sort of a return to normalcy, a return to politics being boring again, at least to a certain extent.
Even while he's still there, their guidance is suddenly getting less stupid and more clear.
We now have James Clyburn in his committee talking to senior CDC officials, who were like, oh, yes, they told me to delete skeevy e-mails from Trump appointees.
Presidents, including Donald Trump, do have a get-out-of-jail-free card from the Justice Department, because there's this Office of Legal Counsel policy that a president can't be indicted.
The court rejected president Trump and the Republicans' effort to monkey wrench the Electoral College process to stop Joe Biden from being elected when the Electoral College votes are cast on Monday.
Obviously, Joe Biden's going to be the next president, and everybody is pretty much dealing with that reality.
American institutions work, and by the way, we'll have another election in two years and another election in four years.