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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 10.
Trump just lost bigly in the Supreme Court and now he is going to be exposed for the #SupremeLoser he is. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/nkThu8qcQr
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) July 10, 2020
- European Union Sets Gigawatt-Scale Targets for Green Hydrogen (“The EU wants 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers installed within its borders by 2030, up from the 250 megawatts in place globally today.” The U.S. should do the same.)
- The Coronavirus Can Be Airborne Indoors, W.H.O. Says (“The agency also explained more directly that people without symptoms may spread the virus. The acknowledgments should have come sooner, some experts said.”)
- Seoul Mayor Is Found Dead After Harassment Complaint Is Filed
- NSW sets itself for biggest and quickest transition from coal to renewables (“The New South Wales state government has confirmed it will seek a massive 8,000MW of wind, solar and storage projects in the state’s north, the biggest call for renewables in the country, and setting itself up for what will be the biggest and most rapid transition from coal to renewables in the country, if not the world.”)
- Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Nears 60,000 New Cases a Day (“The country recorded its sixth single-day record in 10 days. U.S. immigration officials have helped spread the virus, a Times investigation found.”)
- Fauci: ‘I Don’t Think You Can Say We’re Doing Great. I Mean, We’re Just Not.’
- Americans made ‘tremendous sacrifices.’ The great reopening of the pandemic summer still got derailed
- The US is diving into a dark Covid hole — and there’s no plan to get out (“The number of cases across the US are increasing at a horrific rate as Trump offloads responsibility to the states”)
- Republicans can either protect public health or appease Trump. They can’t do both.
- Two-thirds of country now disapproves of Trump’s handling of pandemic, new poll finds
- Trump sidelines health advisers in rift over response to pandemic
- CDC feels pressure from Trump as rift grows over coronavirus response
- Coronavirus Live Updates: The Surge in U.S. Cases Is Driven Largely by States That Reopened Early
- How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones (As usual, crazy Ken Cuccinelli is at the heart of this.)
- Trump’s Loss at the Supreme Court Is a Win for His Candidacy (“The president may eventually face legal liability, but he will not face a public reckoning for his actions before November.”)
- Trump may have won the political battle. But he lost the constitutional one.
- The court rejects Trump’s imperious arguments on subpoenas, but it doesn’t go far enough
- The Supreme Court Teaches Trump the Limits of His Presidency
- Trump Is Successfully Running Out the Clock (“From his financial disclosures to his tax returns to impeachment, the president is finding that stonewalling pays off.” The expression “justice delayed is justice denied” springs to mind)
- Trump’s angry reaction to court underscores political risk
- The Supreme Court just dealt a huge blow to Congress’s power to investigate Trump
- McEnany: Trump’s Supreme Court losses are actually victories
- Presidents don’t usually lose as badly at the Supreme Court as Trump did
- We’re Not Going To See Trump’s Tax Returns Anytime Soon
- The Supreme Court deals a blow to Trump’s delusions of untrammeled power
- A Conservative Court and Trump’s Own Appointees Declare Their Independence
- How John Roberts Pulled Off a Balancing Act in Trump’s Subpoena Cases
- Trump Would Like to See You Now (“Why does the president want to open everything up? It’s not because it’s safe to do so.”)
- The Deadly Delusions of Mad King Donald (“He won’t give up on a failing pandemic strategy.”)
- Trump implies he’s ready to grant clemency to Roger Stone
- Michael Cohen Returned to Jail in Dispute Over Trump Book
- Supreme Court gives Native Americans jurisdiction over eastern half of Oklahoma
- Trump Banks on School Reopening to Help Him in November (“But not everyone is in agreement. CDC officials are nervous about mixed messaging, and a prominent endorser is sticking with virtual learning.”)
- President Winning-by-Losing Is, in Fact, Losing
- Patients Swamp Sun Belt Hospitals With Covid-19 on the Rampage
- What Mary Trump’s book and the ‘Trump v. Vance’ case have in common (“Above all, Mary Trump’s point is that her uncle has spent his life being protected from the consequences of his actions and shortcomings. It’s as though ‘Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life,’ she writes, ‘so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.’ Far from being the virtually self-made man he has always pretended to be, Donald Trump was the “vanity project” of his father, whose money he used “to prop up an illusion” of success.”)
- The real villain of Mary Trump’s family tell-all isn’t Donald. It’s Fred.
- Joint Chiefs Chairman Defies Trump on Bases Named After Confederate Traitors
- ‘Epic failure’: U.S. election officials warn of November chaos due to budget crunch
- Broad disapproval for Trump’s handling of coronavirus, race relations: POLL
- Biden says investors ‘don’t need me,’ calls for end of ‘era of shareholder capitalism’
- Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders joined forces to craft a bold, progressive agenda
- Democrats are unusually unified right now. What explains it?
- Biden will heed the CDC on reopening schools, his wife pledges
- The US installed more solar in Q1 2020 than ever before
- The Unburdened Believer (That would be Hogan Gidley.)
- Trump’s Impeachment Revenge: Alexander Vindman Is Bullied Into Retiring
- Facing crises and falling polls, Trump to hold rally in battleground New Hampshire (Wildly irresponsible.)
- Investigation rebukes Commerce Department for siding with Trump over forecasters during Hurricane Dorian
- In 2020, Trump’s distraction superpowers have finally stopped working (“Trump shoved every scandal off the front page by generating five new outrages — but that’s not working anymore”)
- Tucker Carlson Doesn’t Know What Patriotism Is (He’s a disgrace in every way.)
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw questions Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s values in Trump campaign meetup
- Why Facebook failed its civil rights audit
- DeSantis Is Said to Quietly Hinder Fund-Raising for Trump Convention
- N.Y.C. Paints ‘Black Lives Matter’ Mural Outside Trump Tower
- A small, mostly white Virginia town put up a ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner. Ginni Thomas denounced it. (“The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has denounced ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists as radical and un-American.”)
- Administration’s reopening plans ‘unsafe’ for federal employees, senators say (“The Trump administration’s reopening guidelines for federal agencies are “unsafe” for employees, Maryland and Virginia senators concluded Thursday.”)
- National, Virginia Democrats React to SCOTUS Trump Tax Rulings: “The President is not above the law” (OTOH: “Donald Trump has had four years to release his taxes, and SCOTUS just bought him more time to hide.”)
- Congresswoman Elaine Luria Launches Virginia Veterans for Biden
- Does the Virginia GOP even care about its future? (They sure don’t act like they do.)
- AG Mark Herring Helps Block Trump’s Efforts to Impede Investigations and Hide Evidence
- Some of the Biggest PPP Loans in Virginia Went to Healthcare Companies and Doctors
- Thursday (7/9) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +613 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 67,988), +48 Hospitalizations (to 6,625), +32 Deaths (to 1,937) From Yesterday
- Exclusive Blue Virginia Interview: Del. Elizabeth Guzman Talks About Her Possible Run for Lt. Governor in 2021, Says “I’m an immigrant…I would become the first Latina, the first woman” (“I have to bring my credentials with me, because I’m going to scrutinized more than any other candidate”)
- Virginia Issues Year-End Revenue Report
- Virus’ impact to Virginia budget not as bad as feared, Northam says
- VIDEO: Governor Northam Ceremonially Signs Sweeping Gun Safety Legislation
- Virginia Supreme Court upholds decision blocking Walmart from electricity choice (Totally assinine.)
- Delegate Alex Askew to Serve as Secretary of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus
- Video: Laura Ingraham Attacks Fairfax County School Board as “Reading, Writing and Radicalism,” Controlled by “Black Lives Matter Zealots”
- Fairfax County School Board Member Karen Keys-Gamarra: Having the “N Word” Used on a Zoom Call Highlights Urgent Need to Combat Racial Disparities
- Library of Virginia apologizes for delay with Wilder papers, promises fix as ‘highest priority’
- Coronavirus Outbreak, Two Hospitalized, at ICE Facility in Farmville
- UPDATED: Richmond judge bars removal of lone remaining Richmond-owned Confederate statue
- At Richmond School Board meeting, doctors weigh in on school reopening
- Editorial: Potential tunnel sale means opportunity for region
- Richmond Professor, Son of Civil Rights Icon, Dies
- Oliver W. Hill Jr., son of a civil rights legend who carved ‘his own unique path,’ dies at 70
- Supervisors in Redskins’ Home, Loudoun, Ask to Change Name
- Should They Stay or Should They Go? Confederate Monument in Floyd
- Muggy mid-summer heat on repeat. Rain chances today are best to the east.
