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CDC report says people in four key cities are listening to stay at home orders – CNN

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DNC Chair Says Karofsky Winning Wisconsin’s SC Race Should ‘Terrify’ Trump – Newsweek

Democrat Judge Jill Karofsky defeated incumbent conservative Judge Daniel Kelly in the Wisconsin primaries, according to results released Monday, making her the first candidate to receive more votes than an incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court judge since 2008.

Wisconsin’s April elections were mired in controversy as Governor Tony Evers attempted to have the primaries postponed in order to curb the potential threat of community spread coronavirus. However, his executive order of postponement was challenged by state Republicans and dismissed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Voters showed up to polls in person, some wearing protective gear.

Prominent Democrats decried the in-person elections, including former President Barack Obama and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who said in a statement on Tuesday, “People should not be forced to put their lives on the line to vote.”

In praising Karofsky’s win, National Democratic Committee Chair Tom Perez referred to the failure of Governor Evers’ attempts to delay the primary as “voter suppression.”

“In the face of unprecedented voter suppression efforts by Republicans, @judgekarofsky has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court race — a result that speaks to Democrats’ incredible enthusiasm and should terrify Donald Trump, and every other Wisconsin Republican,” National Democratic Committee Chair Tom Perez tweeted Monday.

Newsweek reached out to Governor Evers’ office for comment.

In a statement acknowledging her victory, Karofsky said how the election happened was “simply unacceptable.”

“Although we were successful in this race, the circumstances under which this election was conducted were simply unacceptable, and raise serious concerns for the future of our democracy,” Karofsky said in a statement Monday. “Nobody in this state or in this country should have been forced to choose between their safety and participating in an election. Too many were unable to have their voices heard because they didn’t feel safe leaving their home or their absentee ballots weren’t counted.”

“Wisconsinites showed their resiliency by overcoming many of the barriers created by the legislature and the courts to try and silence voters in this state, but nobody should ever be denied their right to vote,” Karofsky added.

Even after Karofsky’s victory, conservatives maintained the majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court four to three.

Democrats seemed satisfied with Karofsky’s win, although the fact that voters had to venture out of their homes to cast their votes was still on their minds.

“Despite the result, the fact that this in-person election took place was a searing loss for Wisconsin,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler in a Monday statement. “Today’s results don’t tell us how many people were exposed to coronavirus at polling places, how many were infected, or how many will die. Had justice prevailed, those numbers would have been zero.”

While not listed as a member of the Republican Party, Kelly was supported by many GOP members including President Donald Trump.

“Highly respected Justice Daniel Kelly is running for the Supreme Court in the Great State of Wisconsin,” Trump tweeted in April. “Justice Kelly has been doing a terrific job upholding the Rule of Law and defending your #2A. Tough on Crime, Loves our Military and our Vets. He has my Complete Endorsement!”

With no Republican opponents, Trump was projected to win the Wisconsin Republican primary.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, who was projected to win Wisconsin’s Democratic primary, thanked voters in a video statement Monday but said conditions for the election were untenable.

“As grateful as I am for your support and as proud as I am of the commitment and courage shown by so many in Wisconsin,” Biden said, “it never should have come to that. No one should ever have to choose between their health and our democracy.”

“Instead, we saw Republicans willing to risk people’s lives for their own political purposes,” Biden continued, “refusing to work with the Governor to find an alternative solution to in-person voting last week.”

Biden has expressed his support for voting by mail, a method Trump has spoken out against.

“I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting,” Trump said at an April news briefing. “I think people should vote with ID, voter ID. I think voter ID is very important. And the reason [Democrats] don’t want voter ID is because they intend to cheat.”

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Three Southern California churches sue Gov. Newsom over coronavirus orders – Los Angeles Times

Three Southern California churches that want to keep their doors open during the coronavirus outbreak sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials Monday, arguing that social distancing orders violate the 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion and assembly.

The suit, filed in the federal court for the Central District of California, also names state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra and officials of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

The suit seeks to block Newsom’s month-old stay-at-home order and two county orders designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 by having people mostly stay at home, closing businesses except for those deemed essential and barring group gatherings. The orders don’t list houses of worship among the critical infrastructure where face-to-face contact is permitted.

A message to the governor’s office seeking comment was not immediately returned.

The suit names three churches in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

One plaintiff, James Moffatt, senior pastor at Church Unlimited in Indio, was fined $1,000 for violating Riverside County’s order by holding a Palm Sunday service, according to the lawsuit.

Moffatt “believes that scripture commands him as a pastor to lay hands on people and pray for them, this includes the sick,” the suit said. “Moffatt also believes that he is required by scripture to baptize individuals, something that cannot be done at an online service.”

Also named are a parishioner, the head pastor of Shield of Faith Family Church in Fontana and the senior pastor of Word of Life Ministries International in Riverside, which usually has 20 to 30 regular attendees, according to the suit.

The churches argue that the state and local orders are overly broad and that they can practice safe social distancing in the same manner as grocery stores and other outlets that are considered essential services and allowed to remain open.

“The state does not get to dictate the method of worship to the faithful,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, chief executive of the Center for American Liberty, a California nonprofit organization that filed the suit.

“If a Californian is able to go to Costco or the local marijuana shop or liquor store and buy goods in a responsible, socially distanced manner, then he or she must be allowed to practice their faith using the same precautions,” she said in a statement.

The center was founded in 2019 by Dhillon, who is on the Republican National Committee that helps steer the party’s platform and election strategy.

“I believe the suit has merit,” said John C. Eastman, a professor of law and community service at Chapman University in Orange.

“Obviously, stopping a pandemic is a compelling government interest” but the issue is whether the orders are narrowly tailored enough to meet the strict scrutiny required of laws dealing with religion, Eastman said in an email.

“Services with only a single family in a pew, and spaced three pews apart, with everyone wearing masks and gloves, would accomplish the government’s purpose in a much less draconian way,” he said.

Very few churches in California have refused to stop holding in-person services. The largest Roman Catholic dioceses have begun streaming services online. On Easter Sunday, several churches held drive-in services for congregants who listened on their car radios from parking lots.

On Friday, a federal judge refused to allow a small church in Campo, Abiding Place Ministries, to gather for Easter Sunday services. The judge rejected a request for a temporary restraining order sought by the church, which has sued San Diego County for banning public or private gatherings on public health grounds.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia A. Bashant, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, said the right to freedom of religion doesn’t “include the right to expose the community to communicable disease.”

San Bernardino County has nearly 1,000 reported cases of the coronavirus and more than 30 deaths. Riverside County has reported nearly 1,800 cases and 50 deaths. California has more than 24,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 730 deaths.

Elsewhere, states and local governments have differed on whether houses of worship must meet social distancing rules. Some states have provided a degree of exemption for religious activity.

In Kansas, a coronavirus outbreak led a fight by Gov. Laura Kelly to limit religious and funeral services to no more than 10 people in advance of Easter. After a legislative council overturned her executive order, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld it Saturday.

Rodney Howard-Browne, a Florida-based charismatic Christian pastor who prayed over Trump in the Oval Office in 2017, has pledged not to stop services and encouraged worshipers to shake hands despite experts identifying that behavior as an easy way to spread the virus.

In Louisiana, pastor Tony Spell was warned by police Tuesday after holding a service that attracted hundreds and flouted a state ban on mass gatherings. Spell, who has claimed that his services also heal cancer and HIV, said that he would not permit “any dictator law” to stop worship.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-13/three-southern-california-churches-sue-gov-newsom-over-coronavirus-orders

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Treasury says first coronavirus stimulus checks have gone out and many will get payments by April 15 – USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has begun to distribute stimulus checks of up to $1,200 to millions of Americans as the federal government tries to jolt the economy back to life amid the devastation from the coronavirus pandemic.

The first checks were delivered via direct deposit on Friday and tens of millions will see them appear in their bank accounts by Wednesday, according to the Treasury Department.

Some 50 million to 70 million Americans are expected to get their checks via direct deposit by April 15, according to the Treasury Department. Those who haven’t provided the IRS with their bank account information will get a paper check in the mail, which could take longer, though the department has launched a portal on its website that allows Americans to input their direct deposit information to speed up getting the cash.

The government is distributing the checks under a new $2.2 trillion economic recovery package that President Donald Trump signed into law last month.

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Not everyone is getting a check:Here’s who will be left out of the $1,200 coronavirus stimulus payments

The checks are designed to provide a cash infusion to most Americans and revive the economy amid the coronavirus crisis. The recovery package also includes loans, grants and tax breaks for businesses also reeling from the economic fallout caused by the pandemic.

Under the new stimulus law, individuals with an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or less are eligible for a one-time payment of up to $1,200 ($2,400 for joint tax returns) and $500 for each qualifying child. Those with little or no tax liability also will get $1,200 ($2,400 for joint returns).

The payments start to phase out for Americans who earn more than $75,000, or $150,000 for a joint return. The payments phase out completely for single filers with incomes exceeding $99,000, $136,500 for head of household filers with one child and $198,000 for joint filers with no children.

Not everyone is eligible for a stimulus check. Those who will be left out include many students, some elderly and disabled people and immigrants who don’t have a Social Security number. Parents of babies born in 2020 will have to wait until next year to get the per-child rebate since the payments are based on tax returns filed in either 2018 or 2019.

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Low-income individuals who didn’t need to file a tax return the past two years because they earned less than $12,000 will be eligible for a stimulus check. But they will need to provide the IRS with some information so the agency can calculate their rebate and know where to send it.

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Knocked Off Track by Coronavirus, Census Announces Delay in 2020 Count – The New York Times

A lengthy delay in reporting census figures to the states could throw a wrench into at least some states’ efforts to draw new political maps. Most states have fixed deadlines for approving new maps, some of them written into state constitutions, that could prove hard or impossible to meet if population figures are delayed into the summer, according to Jeffrey M. Wice, a redistricting expert and senior fellow at New York Law School.

“This could open a can of worms depending on the policies of the states,” he said. “It’s not inconceivable that some states might use administrative records to redistrict instead of the decennial census count,” a change that could have a substantial political impact depending on the data used.

The Constitution requires states to use census data for apportioning political districts — in other words, to ensure that districts like House seats are roughly equal in population. But courts have left the door open for states to use different population figures to actually draw maps in some circumstances. Republicans in some states have expressed interest in basing maps on population counts that exclude noncitizens or are limited to registered voters, formulas that would give minorities and other Democratic-leaning groups less political representation.

Census officials have said that response to the census — the first to be conducted largely over the internet — had been meeting expectations. But the bureau already had been forced once to extend the shutdown of field operations that it first announced in March. Efforts to count millions of households in specialized segments of the population — homeless people and those without fixed addresses, such as Native Americans on reservations — have been in limbo, awaiting the bureau’s decision when it would be safe to begin or resume them.

As of Monday, 48.1 percent of households had filled out census forms, with well over a month remaining in the formal period for responding. In the last census in 2010, 66.5 percent of households filled out forms; most of the rest were contacted by an army of door-knockers, called enumerators, who started work after the formal deadline for responding had passed.

This year, the door-knocking was scheduled to begin in mid-May, then postponed to late May. The bureau said Monday only that this count and other field operations would begin “as quickly as possible” after June 1, and last until Oct. 31.

A vast array of businesses, nonprofit groups and state and local governments have huge stakes in the census, which sets the benchmark for the next decade’s allocation of federal grants and subsidies, for marketing and planning studies that shape entire cities and, of course, for political representation.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/census-coronavirus-delay.html

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Trump plays campaign-style video in White House coronavirus briefing touting his ‘decisive action’ – CNBC

At a White House briefing meant to provide updates on the U.S. efforts to combat the coronavirus, President Donald Trump played a campaign-style video clip portraying his initial response to the disease as a bold success – further blurring the line between the government and his presidential reelection bid.

“We have a few clips that we’re just going to put up,” Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room Monday evening before starting the reel. “I think you’ll find them interesting.”

The president said he would answer questions after the video ended. “But most importantly, we’re going to get back onto the reason we’re here, which is the success we’re having,” Trump added.

What followed was a nearly four-minute video, made up of news clips promoting or defending the president’s actions and complete with dramatic music, graphics and visual effects. It offered perhaps the clearest example yet of Trump using the daily briefings to tout what he describes as his successes, rather than merely inform the public about the deadly pandemic. He said White House staff produced the video.

Critics have accused the president of abusing the briefings, which are carried on most major TV networks, by treating them as de facto campaign events. They say he has tried to replace the boisterous rallies he has been forced to cancel during the public health crisis.

The U.S. has the highest number of reported Covid-19 cases of any country in the world, as well as the highest number of deaths from the disease. More than 577,300 people in the U.S. are infected and at least 23,232 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

“Everything we did was right,” Trump said in the briefing room after the video ended.

Text at the beginning of the clip asserted that “THE MEDIA MINIMIZED THE RISK FROM THE START.” It gave way to a handful of soundbites describing the risk of the virus to the U.S. as low.

After that, another text graphic said that “PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK DECISIVE ACTION.” It was followed by a slickly produced timeline of steps he approved in response to the spread of the virus.

Trump has previously bristled at critics who argue that he and his administration downplayed the threat of the coronavirus for too long. Some point to Trump’s false assertion in late February that the number of people in the U.S. with Covid-19 – just a handful at the time – “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

Trump later said that he made that remark because he is a “cheerleader” for the country.

Critics have also pointed to the administration’s slow adoption of widespread testing, a critical component of slowing the disease’s spread.

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‘Worst Is Over,’ Cuomo Says as States Snub Trump on Restarting Economy – The New York Times

Nearly 19,000 people remain hospitalized in New York, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, but the rate of hospitalizations has slowed markedly over the last week, and the 671 deaths announced on Monday marked the lowest one-day death toll in a week.

But even with the numbers plateauing, Mr. Cuomo said, the situation could worsen if New Yorkers ignored social distancing measures.

“I believe the worst is over if we continue to be smart,” Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said during his daily briefing in Albany. “I believe we can start on the path to normalcy.”

With millions of people filing for unemployment benefits and tax revenues drying up, the governors from the seven Northeastern states said the objective was to gradually increase economic activity and the number of employees considered essential workers, while tracking closely the virus’s infection rate. They added that they needed to act in concert to prevent people from crossing state borders to shop or do business in states with looser restrictions.

The seven states together have recorded over 325,000 confirmed virus cases and more than 14,400 deaths, around 63 percent of the country’s total. The governors of those states sought to cast their action both as a sign of hope and as a recognition that they had to act on their own.

“Seeing as how we had the responsibility for closing the state down, I think we probably have the primary responsibility for opening it up,” said Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania. ”We’re simply saying it’s our responsibility to steer our way through these uncharted waters. And it’s our responsibility to figure out a way back.”

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Biden wins in Wisconsin as a liberal supreme court challenger stages upset – The Guardian

As former vice-president Joe Biden scored a widely expected win in the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, a liberal challenger for a state supreme court seat declared victory in an upset hailed by Democrats as boding well for the presidential election in November.

The state supreme court is expected to rule in numerous voting rights cases in the lead-up to the presidential election, including a case in which 200,000 voters could be purged from voter rolls. Wisconsin is a swing state that narrowly voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

With most precincts in the state reporting, Judge Jill Karofsky held what looked like an insurmountable lead over conservative state supreme court justice Daniel Kelly.

In a victory statement, Karofsky thanked supporters and blasted the Republican-led legislature for forcing voters to the polls a week earlier amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, had attempted to postpone the election, but he was rebuffed by the Republican-led legislature and the conservative-controlled state supreme court.

“Although we were successful in this race, the circumstances under which this election was conducted were simply unacceptable, and raise serious concerns for the future of our democracy,” Karofsky said in a statement. “Nobody in this state or in this country should have been forced to choose between their safety and participating in an election.”

Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, had held a large lead in polls before the vote was held. His main opponent, Bernie Sanders, dropped out of the presidential nominating race the day after the vote. Sanders endorsed Biden’s candidacy in a video chat on Monday.

The results from Wisconsin on Monday were drawn from election day the previous Tuesday, which was marred by long lines of voters forced to go to the polls in person as coronavirus ravaged the country.

Coronavirus fears led to an unprecedented number of requests for absentee ballots in the state, numbering more than 1m, but many voters reported that they had not received ballots by election day.

Democracy advocates raised an alarm of potential mass disenfranchisement, especially for minority voters in the city of Milwaukee. Owing to a lack of poll workers amid the pandemic, the election was conducted with just five Milwaukee polling sites.

A typical statewide election would be conducted with about 180 sites for the city.

Long lines of voters wearing masks and trying to keep their distance from one another materialized nevertheless.

“They could have delayed the election with no problem,” an elderly voter in Madison, Wisconsin, told the Associated Press. “They decided if they can suppress the vote in Milwaukee and Madison, where you have a large minority presence, you can get people elected you want elected. And that’s sad.”

Wisconsin Democratic party chair Ben Wikler blasted what he called the Republicans’ “savage and shameful attempt to suppress votes and steal Wisconsin’s supreme court election”.

“Despite the result, the fact that this in-person election took place was a searing loss for Wisconsin,” Wikler said in a statement. “Today’s results don’t tell us how many people were exposed to coronavirus at polling places, how many were infected, or how many will die. Had justice prevailed, those numbers would have been zero. No one should ever have to choose between their health and their vote, yet Republicans chose to prioritize their own political gain over actual human lives.”

Karofsky’s apparent win could have national implications, with the state supreme court likely to decide multiple cases that could shape the November presidential election in a key swing state. One such case could result in the purge of 200,000 voters from the state’s registration rolls.

Donald Trump strongly endorsed Kelly, tweeting on election day, “Protect your 2nd Amendment!” and “A BIG VOTE!”

In endorsing Biden, Sanders called for Trump’s defeat.

“So today, I am asking all Americans, I’m asking every Democrat, I’m asking every independent, I’m asking a lot of Republicans, to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy, which I endorse,” Sanders said.

“We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president.”

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Trump retweets call to fire Fauci amid coronavirus criticism – CNN

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump fueled more speculation about the future of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday, retweeting a conservative who called for the top infectious disease specialist to be fired after he said in a CNN interview more could have been done to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Jason Hoffman contributed to this report.

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New York Gov. Cuomo: ‘The worst is over if we continue to be smart’ about coronavirus – CNBC

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the state is “controlling the spread” of the coronavirus, and it appears that “the worst is over … if we continue to be smart going forward.”

At the same time, Cuomo revealed that the death toll from Covid-19 in New York — which is the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States — has topped 10,000 people.

Cuomo called the death tally a “horrific level of pain and grief and sorrow.”

But he pointed to a flattening of the daily death toll, the flattening in the net number of hospitalizations and a drop in the number of people on ventilators as evidence that radical measures such as the shuttering of nonessential businesses have helped to contain the virus.

He said the death toll for Sunday was 671, versus 758 on Saturday.

“We’re controlling the spread,” Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany. “The worst can be over, and is over, unless we do something reckless.”

“You can turn those numbers on two or three days of reckless behaviors,” he said.

Cuomo said he will make an announcement later Monday about plans for reopening the state in conjunction with some other governors.

He said he and governors from Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island have been talking “for the past couple of days, about coming up with, how do we come up with a reopening plan? And can we work together on a reopening plan?”

The new deaths recorded in New York state on Easter Sunday brought the state’s total 10,056, Cuomo said.

“For me, I’m Catholic, Easter Sunday is the high holy day in many ways … and to have this happen over this weekend is really really especially tragic and they’re all in our thoughts and prayers.”

He noted that the state’s total number of fatalities from the virus dwarfed the 2,753 deaths in the terrorist attacks in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001.

But Cuomo noted that the daily number of new deaths has dropped a bit from some recent days, when new fatalities had topped 750 people each day.

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Governors on East and West coasts form pacts to decide when to reopen economies – CNN

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Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden for President – The New York Times

The scene was a striking example of the ways the coronavirus has upended traditional campaigning. In normal times, both men likely would have appeared onstage together at a rally — or at least done so at an event with more pomp. Instead, both men appeared at their homes, as they have been doing for weeks as they communicate to voters mostly via live streamed events.

At times almost jovial, the two men went back and forth on issues, with Mr. Biden asking Mr. Sanders if he had any questions for him, and Mr. Sanders responding by asking Mr. Biden if he supported policies that the Vermont Senator has championed for years, including a $15 minimum wage and tuition-free public college.

The two men said they would form “task forces” on issues including the economy, education, immigration, health care, criminal justice and climate change.

The scene, which unfolded less than a week after Mr. Sanders ended his own campaign, was a sharp departure from the drawn-out, often-acrimonious process of reconciliation between Mr. Sanders and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, and the joint appearance appeared poised to further ease Democratic fears of a divided party headed into a general election against Mr. Trump.

The event followed weeks of discussion between the Biden and Sanders camps over how the two men could find common ground on Mr. Sanders’s key policy priorities. A day after Mr. Sanders left the presidential race, Mr. Biden announced that he was embracing several new, more progressive positions on matters including health care and education, in an explicit overture to Mr. Sanders’s base.

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