Report: Joe Biden May Limit Coronavirus Antibody Treatments in States with GOP Governors
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Breitbart ^
| 9/14/2021 | PAUL BOIS
President Joe Biden’s administration may reportedly implement a new policy to limit the number of antibody treatments shipped to some states with high demands for it, possibly curtailing the medicine for states with Republican governors, Politico reports. According
to Politico, the Biden administration is “imposing new limits on states’ ability to access to Covid-19 antibody treatments amid rising demand from GOP governors who have relied on the drug as a primary weapon against the virus.”: Federal health officials plan to allocate specific amounts to each state under the new approach, in an effort to more evenly distribute the 150,000 doses...
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Governors' Holiday Menus Include Coronavirus Stress Test for the Constitution
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Townhall.com ^
| November 26, 2020 | John Kass
During the pandemic, what are some of America's governors serving up for the Thanksgiving through Christmas season? A
stress test for the Constitution and a crackdown on individual liberty. That's how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito aptly characterized the situation in a recent, stirring keynote virtual address at the conservative Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention. Alito's remarks came days before several governors imposed their latest, newest shutdown edicts and their Thanksgiving gathering rules. The pandemic had already put great stress on individual liberties, and now, governors are adding even more. Some governors don't want you to hug or sing...
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Video: Biden’s Brain “Short-Circuiting” As He Tells Governors He’ll Help States Overcome Coronavirus
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Conservative US ^
| 11.19.2020 | Alex Hall
In a meeting with governors, Joe Biden expressed concern Thursday that President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful transition of power at the White House has hindered the flow of information about programs to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. “Unfortunately,
my administration hasn’t been able to get everything we need,” the president-elect said during a video conference with the National Governors Association’s leadership team, which includes five Republicans and four Democrats. He specifically cited “Operation Warp Speed,” the federal government’s partnership with private pharmaceutical companies to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Biden promised state leaders that he would “make sure...
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As coronavirus cases rise, red-state governors resist measures to slow the spread, preach ‘personal responsibility’
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Washington Post ^
| Oct 18 2020 | Griff Witte, Tony Romm
With cases surging to new highs and hospital capacity running low, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum teared up describing a state “caught in the middle of a covid storm.”... many Republican governors are resisting new measures to stop the spread. Some
are even loosening rules already on the books. Instead, they preach the mantra of “personal responsibility,” insisting that government interventions such as mask mandates or business restrictions are either unnecessary or harmful, and that people should be trusted to make their own decisions about how to keep themselves — and each other — healthy.... Republican governors have mimicked aspects...
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As coronavirus cases rise, red-state governors resist measures to slow the spread, preach ‘personal responsibility’
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The Washington Post ^
| Oct. 18, 2020 | Griff Witte and Griff Witte Roaming America after years overseas in Europe, the Middle East and So
With cases surging to new highs and hospital capacity running low, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum teared up describing a state “caught in the middle of a covid storm.” To
weather it, he said at a news conference last week, people would need to keep their distance, wear masks and avoid gatherings. But the one thing North Dakota did not need were legal limits on reckless behavior. “It’s not a job for government,” Burgum (R) declared. The novel coronavirus is hammering America’s heartland this fall, with records shattered daily in states that had escaped the worst of the disease this...
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Governors Can’t Use Coronavirus To Indefinitely Declare A State Of Emergency
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The Federalist ^
| August 11, 2020 | Molly McCann
In a national panic, Americans permitted executives to take power—to declare states of emergency and to implement lockdowns—and now those executives won’t give that power back. Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia often noted that the primary safeguard of our constitutional liberties is the structure of our government. Every banana republic has a bill of rights, he once said, but the strength of the American system is the separation of powers. At the federal level, there are three separate, co-equal branches of government that must operate together for our representative republic to function properly, and this balance of power is mirrored...
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Record-breaking Coronavirus hospitalizations 'overwhelm' Arizona, Texas as governors struggle to contain surge
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NBC News via Yahoo News ^
| 06/24/2020 | Daniella Silva
Coronavirus hospitalizations in Arizona and Texas have hit record numbers as cases continue to surge in states in the South and the West, overwhelming medical professionals. Arizona
reported a record high of 3,591 new cases Tuesday, with nearly 60,000 known cases in the state overall. The swell in cases came as President Donald Trump held a rally at a Phoenix megachurch Tuesday. There was a surge in the number of inpatient beds occupied by positive or suspected COVID-19 patients, with 2,136 beds occupied, compared to 1,992 Sunday, according to data from the state's Department of Health Services. Meanwhile, 84 percent...
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Exclusive — Seema Verma: Cuomo, Other Democrat Governors’ Coronavirus Nursing Home Policies Contradicted Federal Guidance
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Breitbart ^
| 6/22/2020 | Matthew boyle
Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), told Breitbart News exclusively that New York’s Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other Democrat governors originally issued guidance that contradicted federal guidelines for nursing homes battling the coronavirus pandemic. “I
just want to make it very clear that our guidance was absolutely crystal clear,” Verma said in an exclusive interview late last week. “It was clear and unmistakable. Any insinuation to the contrary is woefully mistaken at best and dishonest at worst. We put out our guidance on March 13. It’s very clear when it says that,...
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Coronavirus shutdowns ordered by governors and mayors are unconstitutional
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Fox News ^
| May 27 2020 | Judge Andrew P. Napolitano | Creators Syndicate
The governors of all 50 states and the mayors of many large cities have assumed unto themselves the powers to restrict private personal choices and lawful public behavior in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19. They have done so not by enforcing previously existing legislation but by crafting their own
executive orders, styling those orders as if they were laws, using state and local police to enforce those so-called laws and – presumably when life returns to normal and the courts reopen – prosecuting the alleged offenders in court. It is hard to believe that any judge in...
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Banner planes troll N.J. and Pa. governors as beaches open from coronavirus closures
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PennLive ^
| 24 May A.D. 2020 | Chris Franklin
Memorial Day Weekend is usually a time in which banner planes buzz up and down the Jersey Shore advertising drink specials, pizza deals or local businesses to the sun-seekers below. On
Sunday in the Wildwoods, a few went political, apparently over the reopening of most Jersey Shore beaches from months-long coronavirus restrictions. One aimed at Gov. Phil Murphy said: “Murphy’s mom voted for Guadagno.” (Murphy ran against Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno in 2017.) And another said, "Tom Wolf likes to color” - an apparent reference to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s color-coded reopening plan. Wolf was at odds with fellow Democrat...
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Democratic governors hit with flurry of legal challenges to coronavirus lockdowns
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Politico ^
| 5/17/20 | Caitlin Oprysko
The raging public debate over statewide coronavirus lockdowns is running parallel to a series of legal battles in state capitals - and the lockdown skeptics got a big boost this week. The
decision by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to toss Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide shelter-in-place order set off a scramble in cities across the state to impose their own local restrictions. Elsewhere, bars and restaurants shut down by the order declared themselves open for business. And legal challenges are continuing to pile-up across the country - even as governors who extend their state’s shelter-in-place orders begin peeling back some...
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Blame governors for the coronavirus deaths in nursing homes
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Fox News ^
| May 19 2020 | Michael Goodwin
An article in Nowhere Magazine several years ago explored the ways ancient cultures dispatched the elderly, a practice known as senicide. Author
Justin Nobel recounted several gruesome rites that made the Inuit habit of putting Granny on an Arctic ice floe seem humane. At one point, Nobel mentioned that his own grandparents had moved “to a fancy nursing home in the suburbs of New York City.” That made me shudder.
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In Combating Coronavirus, Trump and Governors Act Constitutionally
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Daily Signal [Heritage Foundation] ^
| March 19, 2020 | John G. Malcolm
Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano, a former judge, recently penned an article with the provocative title “Coronavirus fear lets government assault our freedom in violation of Constitution.” Although Napolitano is right to be concerned, President Donald Trump and other federal, state, and local officials appear to be acting within the bounds of
the Constitution in responding to the severe threat posed by spread of the new coronavirus disease, which health officials call COVID-19. Napolitano first quotes from the Supreme Court’s 1866 opinion in Ex parte Milligan (“The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally...
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Some Governors Are Getting Serious About The Cost Of Coronavirus Lockdowns. Some Aren’t
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The Federalist ^
| April 29, 2020 | John Daniel Davidson
As the spread of COVID-19 begins to slow nationwide, some governors are proving to be more serious than others about what comes next. As
the coronavirus spread slows, governors are responding in different, sometimes wildly divergent ways. Many of them, recognizing their states are not likely to see an outbreak on the scale of New York or New Jersey, have in recent days announced plans to loosen lockdown orders and get their residents back to work. Others have taken the opposite tack, extending lockdown orders and keeping businesses shuttered even as jobless claims mount.The first set of governors, generally speaking,...
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AG Barr Says He May Go After Governors Who Persist on Authoritarian Coronavirus Lockdown Orders
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thegatewaypundit.com ^
| April 21, 2020 | Cristina Laila
US Attorney General Bill Barr on Tuesday said he may go after Governors who insist on maintaining authoritarian Coronavirus lockdown orders.The DOJ could take legal action against Governors drunk on power and infringing on Constitutional rights, Bill Barr said according to Bloomberg News.Barr said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show†that state’s stay-at-home
orders are justified up to a point, but the DOJ could target state and local officials by joining lawsuits filed by citizens over the authoritarian restrictions.“We have to give businesses more freedom to operate in a way that’s reasonably safe,â€Â Barr said, according to Bloomberg. “To the extent that governors...
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Barr: Some governors' action 'infringes on a fundamental right' during coronavirus
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The Hill ^
| 04 21 2020 | Justine Coleman
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that some state governors’ efforts to fight the coronavirus “infringes on a fundamental right” of American residents. Barr
said in an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that governments in the U.S. need to “do a better job” of ensuring coronavirus restrictions are “properly targeted” and do not unnecessarily infringe on constitutional rights. He added that currently, the country is facing “unprecedented burdens on civil liberties.” “When a governor acts, especially when a governor does something that intrudes upon or infringes on a fundamental right or a Constitutional right, they’re bounded by that,” the...
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Ex-NYT reporter Alex Berenson calls on governors to reopen schools, questions coronavirus lockdowns
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Fox News ^
| April 20,2020 | Tyler Olson
Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who has openly questioned the models informing the government's reaction to the coronavirus crisis, told Fox News' Brit Hume that states should "reopen schools as quickly as possible" while also questioning other elements of the government response to the pandemic. He
also said that there is a chance it may be harder for children to give the coronavirus to adults than it is for adults to give it to children. "So you don't really have to worry that much about protecting adults from children," Berenson told Hume regarding the risks to teachers if...
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Governors praise Trump admin. for coronavirus outbreak efforts
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ONA ^
| April 12, 2020 | ONA Newsroom
Despite political infighting, state leaders have taken the time to thank the White House for its assistance during these troubling times. On
Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom praised President Trump’s efforts to help his state during the COVID-19 crisis. Newsom, who has frequently clashed with the White House, touted the president’s ability to get a Navy ship to California, which was deployed to help alleviate pressure on local health centers and nursing homes. “Every single direct request that he was capable of meeting, he has met,” stated Newsom. “We have the USNS Mercy in California because of his direct intervention...
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Nikki Haley, in op-ed, says coronavirus response mainly governors' responsibility, not Trump's
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Fox News ^
| April 08 2020 | Brie Stimson
Responsibility for combating the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. lies mainly with governors and not President Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says. "The
federal government can provide crucial resources, but the burden is on the governor and her team to distribute them. No two states are alike, and blanket approaches won’t work," Haley, who previously served as a Republican governor of South Carolina, wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece Wednesday. She seemed to oppose Dr. Anthony Fauci’s endorsement last week of a nationwide stay-at-home order, which came as a handful of the nation's...
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Biden’s offer to help coronavirus efforts making governors’ jobs ‘difficult’
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nypost ^
| 04/06/2020 | Ebony Bowden
WASHINGTON — In the early hours of Monday morning, Joe Biden’s campaign sent an email to state leaders offering to connect them with desperately needed coronavirus resources. But
at least two Republican states believe they never got the email, while one governor’s office said the campaign’s efforts to insert themselves in the pandemic was only making their jobs harder. In the email obtained by The Post, Biden’s political chief of staff Stacy Eichner told state officials that the former veep’s presidential campaign had received a “significant number of offers” from organizations and people eager to offer resource
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