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Texas Supreme Court says coronavirus restrictions on business ‘may not survive judicial scrutiny’
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Texas Supreme Court says coronavirus restrictions on business ‘may not survive judicial scrutiny’
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Pregnant 'MasterChef' finalist and husband found dead in grisly 'murder-suicide' just weeks after she opened restaurant that had to close due to shutdown
MasterChef didn't kill himself nor did covid!
>new flynn docs
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The DOJ has just produced even more documents to Flynn's lawyers.
"The enclosed documents were obtained and analyzed by USA EDMO in March, April and May 2020"
"Additional documents may be forthcoming"
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1257785966124810241
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn: I introduced the Stop COVID Act to give all Americans the ability to sue China in U.S. courts for the damage they’ve inflicted on our country.
Maryland Gov. Hogan Faces Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Orders
Larry Hogan is one of the latest governors to be challenged over his response to the pandemic.
Religious leaders, state lawmakers and businesses filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Larry Hogan and other Maryland officials on Saturday for violating Americans' constitutional rights during the coronavirus pandemic.
A number of governors are facing similar lawsuits, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who was sued on May 4 by Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.) for her stay-at-home order, which will remain in place until at least May 28.
The lawsuit filed against Maryland's Republican governor, Health Secretary Robert Neall, Deputy Secretary of Public Health Services Frances B. Phillips and Maryland State Police Superintendent Woodrow W. Jones had been under discussion for weeks, according to WTOP News.
Photos: The DMV Under COVID-19
Maryland Del. Neil Parrott, one of three state delegates who filed the lawsuit, said the group decided to move forward after Maryland State Police told Del. Dan Cox that he might be arrested if he attended and spoke at a political rally Saturday protesting Hogan's executive orders amid coronavirus.
Parrott told WTOP News that the police used Hogan's stay-at-home order, which bars gatherings of more than 10 people and requires residents to stay at home except for essential activities, as their reasoning for keeping Cox from the event.
"But that's really a violation of the freedom of assembly, it's a violation of allowing us to speak our minds," Parrott said.
The lawsuit also claims that state officials are depriving the religious leaders listed as plaintiffs in the case from their freedom of speech, along with their religious and assembly rights. According to the lawsuit, Maryland State Police have "threatened to impose criminal sanctions against religious gatherings of any kind, even though these churches were engaged in First Amendment protected activity, were duly operating social welfare and food bank services, and at their worship services were practicing reasonable and determinable social hygiene and distancing, and were exceeding government CDC and international WHO recommendations."
The plaintiffs also allege that the state "disparately and discriminately" allows certain businesses such as liquor stores to stay open and to be categorized as "essential," while refusing to categorize religious gatherings as essential.
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READ: Poll: Most Americans Oppose Reopening Businesses Amid Coronavirus Pandemic ]
Mike Ricci, Hogan's communications director, responded to the lawsuit Saturday night when he spoke with WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5.
"We fully respect Delegate Cox's right to protest, but that doesn't entitle him to make false and baseless claims," Ricci said, adding that "the overwhelming majority of Marylanders don't agree with him."
As of May 5, Maryland had more than 27,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,290 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths, according to the Maryland Department of Health.
Hogan has said that the state is waiting to see a downward trajectory or a consistent plateauing of COVID-19 hospitalizations in order to consider lifting the stay-at-home order and start an economic recovery plan.
In addition to the lawsuit filed on May 4, Gov. Whitmer is also the defendant in two other lawsuits challenging her response to the health crisis. Michigan residents sued her over an executive order prohibiting them from visiting their second homes, while another challenged her order temporarily relaxing Freedom of Information Act response times.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, was sued on April 13 by a group of religious leaders and the Center for American Liberty for not making a religious exemption to his stay-at-home executive order. The Center for American Liberty also sued Newsom over his plan to give $75 million to help immigrants who don't qualify for unemployment insurance.
In Wisconsin, Republican state leaders filed a lawsuit on April 21 challenging Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, which was extended until May 26.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-05-05/lawsuit-challenges-gov-hogan-maryland-officials-over-coronavirus-orders
Wisconsin Sued Over Coronavirus Restrictions
A "Safer at Home" coronavirus pandemic order has failed to keep Wisconsin safe against a lawsuit.
Issued by Gov. Tony Evers and Andrea Palm, Secretary of Health Services, the order mandates Wisconsin residents must stay at home, adding a list of a host of exceptions to the rule.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Jeré Fabick and Larry Chapman, challenged the order on the basis, by limiting religious gatherings to fewer than 10 people, the order discriminates against religious believers, Breitbart reported.
They also note, the order is especially restrictive agaist Orthodox Jews, who require a "Minyan," or 10 men over the age of 13, to be present in order for religious worship to take place.
The order specifically exempts "Weddings, funerals, and religious entities. Religious facilities, entities, groups, and gatherings, and weddings and funerals, except that any gathering shall include fewer than 10 people in a room or confined space at a time and individuals shall adhere to Social Distancing Requirements as much as possible."
The order has teeth, stating it is "enforceable by any local law enforcement official, including county sheriffs. Violation or obstruction of this Order is punishable by up to 30 days imprisonment, or up to $250 fine, or both."
The lawsuit states, while limiting those attending a religious service to fewer than 10, it allows "hundreds of customers into Costco at any given time."
The order notes it goes into effect April 24 and remains in effect until 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 26.
Adam Laxalt, the former attorney general of Nevada and the attorney representing the plaintiffs, said, "If a government is going to restrict the right to attend a church service at all, then they need to do it far more carefully and in a far more narrow way then was done in Wisconsin," Bloomberg reported.
The plaintiffs stated their belief Wisconsin is acting in good faith, but add the state's officials "have gone too far, needlessly infringing our most basic constitutional liberties – to an extent that is without precedent and that would have been virtually unimaginable in a free society just two months ago."
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/wisconsin-lawsuit-religious-gatherings/2020/05/05/id/966227/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-04/wisconsin-sued-over-social-distancing-rules-basic-liberties
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Wisconsin Sued Over Coronavirus Restrictions
Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows, raising questions amid coronavirus pandemic
Three frontline health care workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks, heightening public attention to the working conditions for doctors and medical professionals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Two of those health care workers are dead, and one remains hospitalized.
All three incidents, which are being investigated by Russian law enforcement authorities, have prompted intense discussion in the Russian press and on social media.
Alexander Shulepov, an ambulance doctor in Voronezh, a city about 320 miles south of Moscow, is in serious condition after falling from a hospital window on Saturday. Local state television, citing regional health officials, said he fell out of second-floor window of the Novousmanskaya hospital, where he worked and was receiving treatment after testing positive for coronavirus.
Shulepov was hospitalized for coronavirus on April 22, the same day he and his colleague Alexander Kosyakin posted a video online saying that Shulepov had been forced to continue working after testing positive for coronavirus.
Kosyakin had previously criticized hospital administration for protective gear shortages on his social media and was questioned by the police for allegedly spreading fake news.
Kosyakin confirmed these details to CNN in an interview.
"[Shulepov] is an intensive care unit, as far as I know in a serious condition, last time I spoke to him was on the 30th of April, we checked in with each other," Kosyakin told CNN. "He felt fine, he was getting ready to get discharged from the hospital … and all of a sudden this happened, it's not clear why and what for, so many questions that I don't even have the answer to."
Police have not responded to CNN's request for comment.
The Novousmanskaya hospital said in a statement that Shulepov had been taken off a shift as soon as he informed the hospital administration about his positive diagnosis and was offered hospitalization in the infectious diseases ward.
Three days later, Shulepov retracted his previous statements, saying that in his video with Kosyakin he was "overwhelmed by emotions." The second video Shulepov recorded featured Igor Potanin, the head doctor of the Novousmanskaya hospital, who said his medical staff has enough protective equipment.
"I spoke about this to the department's employees: I won't let anyone go to outpatients or inpatients if we don't have enough means of protection, I told them I'd go myself there, but I will not send anyone," Potanin said.
Shulepov was the third health worker in Russia to fall out of a window in the past two weeks.
On May 1, Elena Nepomnyashchaya, the acting head doctor of a hospital in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, died after spending a week in intensive care, the regional department of the Health Ministry said in a statement.
Local TV station TVK Krasnoyarsk reported at the time that Nepomnyashchaya allegedly fell out of a window during a meeting with regional health officials, during which they discussed turning the clinic into a coronavirus facility.
Nepomnyashchaya was reported to have opposed those changes due to the lack of protective gear in the hospital. The Health Ministry's regional health department denied the allegations in a statement, adding that the hospital is in "reserve" for coronavirus patients and its staff has been trained and equipped. The hospital did not respond to CNN's requests for comment.
On April 24, Natalya Lebedeva, head of the emergency medical service at Star City, the main training base for Russia's cosmonauts, died in a hospital after a fall.
The hospital within the Federal Biomedical Agency, which says it treated her for suspected coronavirus, released a statement that "a tragic accident" occurred, without elaborating. The hospital did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
In the statement, the hospital said, "She was a true professional in her field, saving human lives every day!"
https://www.wtva.com/content/news/570204162.html
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[[[Soros]]]-Funded AB PAC Pushes Fact-Checked ‘Misleading’ Anti-Trump Ad 1,089 Times
Whenever liberal billionaire George Soros’s Democracy PAC pumps cash into a lefty group, a disgusting anti-Trump propaganda TV ad eventually surfaces. A new ad from a group funded with $2 million by the billionaire’s PAC pushed a misleading narrative that was blasted on the TV airwaves 1,089 times last week.
The lefty group American Bridge 21st Century PAC (AB PAC), founded by progressive journalist David Brock, pushed a vicious anti-Trump ad last week with the spot title “Trump Trusted China.” The ad claimed that “[Trump] shipped China 17 tons of American masks and medical supplies. Our masks and supplies. Supplies we need now.” That claim has been fact-checked and found to be misleading.
The ad left “the misleading impression that medical equipment donated by U.S.-based organizations and businesses to China early in the global coronavirus outbreak came from the Trump administration,” according to liberal outlet FactCheck.org.
FactCheck.org noted:
“The medical supplies were not ‘American’ or ‘ours’ in the sense that they belonged to the federal government, which the ad’s language may lead viewers to believe. The equipment was donated by [American] companies and organizations specifically for use by health care workers in China,” [emphasis added.]
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2020/05/05/soros-funded-ab-pac-pushes-fact-checked-misleading-anti
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Trump names terms for next coronavirus bill, says no 'bailing out poorly run' states
President Trump on Tuesday laid out what he wants “on the table” for the next round of economic stimulus – calling for the elimination of “sanctuary” city policies, as well as cuts to payroll and capital gains taxes while arguing that the coronavirus must not be used to bail out “poorly run” states.
“Well run States should not be bailing out poorly run States, using CoronaVirus as the excuse!” Trump tweeted. “The elimination of Sanctuary Cities, Payroll Taxes, and perhaps Capital Gains Taxes, must be put on the table. Also lawsuit indemnification & business deductions for restaurants & ent [sic].”
Trump’s tweet comes as lawmakers gear up for negotiations for what is becoming known as “Phase 4” of efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and boost the economy back to life after it was largely shut down in response to the virus.
Democrats have called for a $500 billion aid injection for state governments, and possibly even more to localities in order to help with their responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
"In terms of funding, we may have two packages, one for states and one for locals," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said last week during a press call. Later she clarified: “It looks like we’re going to need 500 [billion] for the states and we may also need a very big figure for counties and municipalities."
But Republicans have expressed concern that the money could be used by blue states that have racked up debt in areas such as pensions. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" that he was "certainly open to considering additional assistance to state and local governments" after he had previously suggested that states with massive gaps in their budget should be allowed to declare bankruptcy.
"It is important, however, to understand that many states have systemic long-standing challenges: In many of them, their pension fund, in many of them from overspending," McConnell said. "What we're saying here is, we are not interested in rescuing badly run states from the mistakes they've made [that are] completely unrelated to the coronavirus. So let me make it perfectly clear. We are open to considering another bill."
Trump, too, has expressed similar concerns and has started to float ideas such as changes to sanctuary policies as part of his wishlist.
“I don't even think they know they have a problem, but they have a big problem with it, the sanctuary city situation,” Trump said last week. “We'd have to talk about a lot of different things. But we're certainly open to talking, but it would really have to be COVID-related, not related for mismanagement over a long time, over a long period of time.”
On Tuesday, Trump also referenced lawsuit indemnification as a way of protecting businesses from being sued as they seek to reopen in the months ahead. McConnell has previously called liability protections as a “red line” for Republicans in the coming negotiations.
"We are in a place that we have never been before and we are all hoping for a rapid recovery," McConnell has said. "I think that we get a more rapid recovery if we have liability reform [and] if we have testing that reassures people, because the economy will not truly be open unless everybody's willing to participate in the economy again."
But Democrats will also likely have initial demands of their own. In addition to the $500 billion and possibly up to $1 trillion for state and local government aid, Pelosi has suggested a guaranteed minimum income.
“Let’s see what works, what is operational, and what needs other attention? Others have suggested a minimum income, a guaranteed income for people. Is that worthy of attention now? Perhaps so,” she said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/west-virginia-kidnapping-suspect-mishandling-top-secret-classified-information
If Fauci, Gates, WHO & Pelosi get their way this is what will happen when you're taking out your garbage:
Mexican Judge Releases Cartel Boss Who Ordered Hit on Breitbart Texas Writer
A Mexican cartel boss who ordered a hit on a contributing writer for Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project in 2018 was released from prison and is now threatening avocado growers in Michoacán.
nown as “El Boto or Marruecos,” Cesar Sepulveda Arellano, a leading member of Los Viagras Cartel and the founder of the faction known as “Blancos de Troya,” was in the state prison of Mil Cumbres in Michoacán awaiting trial for the murder of Buenavista Mayor Javier Urena Gonzales. However, on April 30, a state judge ordered his release after state prosecutors were not able to “present” enough evidence to move forward with the case.In August 2018, El Boto placed a $100,000 hit on Jose Luis Lara, a writer for Cartel Chronicles and a founding member of the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán. Less than 48 hours after the offer was extended, the Mexican Army and Navy followed an anonymous tip to a house in Morelos–where they arrested him. El Boto at the time claimed Lara was a spy for the U.S. government.Almost immediately after his release, El Boto sent messages to avocado growers in Michoacán claiming they must pay extortion fees to his men. The release of the kingpin comes as violence between Los Viagras and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion spreads terror throughout the region. Both are fighting for control of the region’s drug production and trafficking routes.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/05/05/mexican-judge-releases-cartel-boss-who-ordered-hit-on-breitbart-texas-writer/
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The main point is "&".
These cunts fakeanons
Paranoia or Fear, or another MSMphsyop on Q, which one anons?
Lisa Page
@NatSecLisa
Well this is a first. Apparently I’m so skilled and crafty that I’m currently incarcerated and the CIA — an agency for which I’ve never worked — is actually running my twitter account to maintain the charade.
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Lisa this is not you!!! you were arrested yesterday 3 counts of conspiracy to overthrow Govt,3 Counts Purgery,1 Count Obstruction of Justice!! @GeorgeMNasif we are confirming that!! we are on to all the tricks of the CIA!! https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa/status/1257759590248218627
3:24 PM · May 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa/status/1257798306232705024
>Wonder why Bill Gates and Co don't want us eating meat???
>Vegans, Vegetarians Tend to Have Poorer Mental Health Than Meat Eaters, Study Finds
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Firefighters and ambulances responding to a reported passenger train crash in Alexandria, Virginia.
3:29 PM · May 5, 2020
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Site of reported passenger train crash in the Potomac Yards area.