Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell’s Texas roots: Ambition, prestige and a propensity for conspiracy theories
Powell established the foundation of her legal career in Texas before finding her way to the president’s ear.
Decades before Sidney Powell joined President Donald Trump’s “elite strike force team” of lawyers alleging voter fraud without evidence, the lawyer made her name in Texas legal circles.
She rose to national prominence in her battle to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, alleging voter fraud at the hand of election companies, including far-reaching conspiracy theories. In one press conference with Trump’s lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Powell claimed that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, directed Dominion voting machines to take votes from Trump and flip them to President-elect Joe Biden.
Should patients hospitalized for COVID-19 routinely receive extra anticoagulation or go home with a course of antithrombotics?
The first randomized controlled trial data are still emerging, leaving those questions to the realm of expert consensus statements with only observational and pre-COVID data from which to extrapolate.
The key fulcrum on which the decision rests is how elevated venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk is versus how much bleeding occurs in COVID-19 patients, noted speakers at a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team Consortium webinar on Wednesday.
A widely cited meta-analysis in
CHEST yielded a 17% estimated incidence of VTE across 47 studies in hospitalized COVID-19 patients largely on standard thromboprophylaxis, which individually ranged from 0% to 85%.
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While experts debate whether the U.S. Capitol siege was an attempted coup, there is no debate that what happened in 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina, was a coup – and its consequences were tragic.
These two events, separated by 122 years, share critical features. Each was organized and planned. Each was an effort to steal an election and disfranchise voters. Each was animated by white racist fears.
And each required the help of the media to be successful.
Those who study Reconstruction and its aftermath know the U.S. has deep experience with political and electoral violence. Reconstruction was the 12-year period following the Civil War when the South returned to the Union and newly freed Black Americans were incorporated into U.S. democracy.