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solarbirdStill a pandemic going on. Remember that?
Neat, huh.
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mcc
twitter.com/mcclure111
1 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1267542497565331459
Anyway FTR there *is* still a global pandemic going on and Donald Trump has personally, acting alone as a single individual, pulled the US out of the WHO (defunding it significantly) and effectively cancelled this year's G7 meeting, just in case anything important happens there
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Écrivain
twitter.com/mon_coeur_gay
1 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mon_coeur_gay/status/1267478308616167425
Emmanuel Macron has just announced that, like Angela Merkel, he will not be attending the G7 in the United States this year. It is a real snub for Trump and quite a big deal. The word here is that the Elysée doesn't trust Trump to consult the other countries about inviting Putin.
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Several cadets brought back for graduation at West Point test positive for Covid-19
By Barbara Starr and Chandelis Duster, CNN
Updated 10:10 AM ET, Mon June 1, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/west-point-cadets-coronavirus/index.html
Washington (CNN)About 15 cadets from the US Military Academy Class of 2020 who were brought back for graduation where President Donald Trump is scheduled to give the commencement address have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a US Army spokesperson.
"About 1 ½ percent" of the Class of 2020 who were brought back have tested positive, the spokesperson told CNN Sunday. None of the infected cadets were symptomatic, the spokesperson said, adding "no cadet has contracted through person-to-person contact while under the Army's care" and that those infected were isolated. The graduating class size is approximately 1,000 cadets.
"The Army and West Point have done meticulous planning to ensure the health and safety of the returning cadets of the U.S. Military Academy's Class of 2020. There is mandatory screening for all and we've had a small number -- about 1 ½ percent -- test positive," the spokesperson said. "This was anticipated. None were symptomatic, and no cadet has contracted through person-to-person contact while under the Army's care. Those who test positive are isolated, and receive appropriate care and attention, while we continue an orderly reintegration of our cadets."
In April, the President announced he was going to address West Point's commencement ceremony taking place June 13. His decision to do so has been criticized for putting cadets' health at risk. West Point said in a statement in late April the graduation procession "will look different from recent graduation ceremonies due to current force health protection requirements" related to the coronavirus pandemic.
West Point's campus is in New York state, which has been the state hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic so far. Cadets had been away from campus since early March.
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Neal Katyal
twitter.com/neal_katyal
1 June 2020
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1267548551804071938
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Pretty extraordinary filing by Judge Sullivan just now in the Michael Flynn case.
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Judge in Michael Flynn case defends decision not to immediately drop criminal case
by Kevin Breuninger
Published Mon, Jun 1 2020
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/judge-in-michael-flynn-case-defends-decision-not-to-immediately-drop-criminal-case.html
Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday defended his decision not to immediately grant the Justice Department’s request to drop its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
The Justice Department last month abruptly dropped its prosecution of Flynn, who had repeatedly pleaded guilty in court to lying to the FBI about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks prior to Trump’s inauguration.
Sullivan has appointed retired Judge John Gleeson to make legal arguments on why the case should not be dismissed, and to analyze whether he should hold Flynn in criminal contempt for perjury for pleading guilty to a charge of which he now claims he is innocent.
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In new filing, Justice Department pushes for end to Flynn case
AG Barr has decided that Trump's former national security adviser's false statements to the FBI were not material.
By Pete Williams
1 June 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/new-filing-justice-department-pushes-end-flynn-case-n1221411
WASHINGTON — A lawyer hired by the federal judge overseeing the case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn urged a federal appeals court Monday not to force him to end it now.
But in a separate court filing, the Justice Department said the case should be ended because only prosecutors, not judges, can decide when to abandon a criminal case.
The government last month told Federal District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan it wanted to drop the case, after Attorney General Williams Barr decided that Flynn's false statements to the FBI were not material to any open investigation. Sullivan appointed a former judge to argue the opposite point so that he could have a hearing on whether dropping the case would be in the public interest.
Neat, huh.
- Trump pulls US from WHO, also breaks up G7 meeting
- Several cadets brought back for graduation at West Point test positive for Covid-19
- "Pretty extraordinary filing by Judge Sullivan just now in the Michael Flynn case."
- Judge in Michael Flynn case defends decision not to immediately drop criminal case
- In new filing, Justice Department pushes for end to Flynn case
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mcc
twitter.com/mcclure111
1 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1267542497565331459
Anyway FTR there *is* still a global pandemic going on and Donald Trump has personally, acting alone as a single individual, pulled the US out of the WHO (defunding it significantly) and effectively cancelled this year's G7 meeting, just in case anything important happens there
[QUOTED TWEET]
Écrivain
twitter.com/mon_coeur_gay
1 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mon_coeur_gay/status/1267478308616167425
Emmanuel Macron has just announced that, like Angela Merkel, he will not be attending the G7 in the United States this year. It is a real snub for Trump and quite a big deal. The word here is that the Elysée doesn't trust Trump to consult the other countries about inviting Putin.
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Several cadets brought back for graduation at West Point test positive for Covid-19
By Barbara Starr and Chandelis Duster, CNN
Updated 10:10 AM ET, Mon June 1, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/west-point-cadets-coronavirus/index.html
Washington (CNN)About 15 cadets from the US Military Academy Class of 2020 who were brought back for graduation where President Donald Trump is scheduled to give the commencement address have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a US Army spokesperson.
"About 1 ½ percent" of the Class of 2020 who were brought back have tested positive, the spokesperson told CNN Sunday. None of the infected cadets were symptomatic, the spokesperson said, adding "no cadet has contracted through person-to-person contact while under the Army's care" and that those infected were isolated. The graduating class size is approximately 1,000 cadets.
"The Army and West Point have done meticulous planning to ensure the health and safety of the returning cadets of the U.S. Military Academy's Class of 2020. There is mandatory screening for all and we've had a small number -- about 1 ½ percent -- test positive," the spokesperson said. "This was anticipated. None were symptomatic, and no cadet has contracted through person-to-person contact while under the Army's care. Those who test positive are isolated, and receive appropriate care and attention, while we continue an orderly reintegration of our cadets."
In April, the President announced he was going to address West Point's commencement ceremony taking place June 13. His decision to do so has been criticized for putting cadets' health at risk. West Point said in a statement in late April the graduation procession "will look different from recent graduation ceremonies due to current force health protection requirements" related to the coronavirus pandemic.
West Point's campus is in New York state, which has been the state hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic so far. Cadets had been away from campus since early March.
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Neal Katyal
twitter.com/neal_katyal
1 June 2020
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1267548551804071938
[THREAD]
Pretty extraordinary filing by Judge Sullivan just now in the Michael Flynn case.
[EMBEDDED DOCUMENTS]
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Judge in Michael Flynn case defends decision not to immediately drop criminal case
by Kevin Breuninger
Published Mon, Jun 1 2020
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/judge-in-michael-flynn-case-defends-decision-not-to-immediately-drop-criminal-case.html
Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday defended his decision not to immediately grant the Justice Department’s request to drop its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
The Justice Department last month abruptly dropped its prosecution of Flynn, who had repeatedly pleaded guilty in court to lying to the FBI about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks prior to Trump’s inauguration.
Sullivan has appointed retired Judge John Gleeson to make legal arguments on why the case should not be dismissed, and to analyze whether he should hold Flynn in criminal contempt for perjury for pleading guilty to a charge of which he now claims he is innocent.
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In new filing, Justice Department pushes for end to Flynn case
AG Barr has decided that Trump's former national security adviser's false statements to the FBI were not material.
By Pete Williams
1 June 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/new-filing-justice-department-pushes-end-flynn-case-n1221411
WASHINGTON — A lawyer hired by the federal judge overseeing the case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn urged a federal appeals court Monday not to force him to end it now.
But in a separate court filing, the Justice Department said the case should be ended because only prosecutors, not judges, can decide when to abandon a criminal case.
The government last month told Federal District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan it wanted to drop the case, after Attorney General Williams Barr decided that Flynn's false statements to the FBI were not material to any open investigation. Sullivan appointed a former judge to argue the opposite point so that he could have a hearing on whether dropping the case would be in the public interest.
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Date: 2020-06-02 01:45 pm (UTC)We will outwait Putin and Putinism. One way or another.
The idea of Australia, South Korea and India joining the club strikes me as a good idea - stopped-clock time! - and will become a better one when India gives Narendra Modi and the BJP the boot in favour of saner government.
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Date: 2020-06-02 10:46 pm (UTC)