UVa physician Cameron Webb joins Biden White House COVID team Photo: WINA
CHARLOTTSVILLE (WINA) – UVa physician and former 5th District Congressional candidate Dr. Cameron Webb is joining President-elect Biden’s White House COVID Response Team. Webb is no stranger to the White House since he worked as a White House Fellow in the Obama Administration in 2016 and through the transition to the Trump Administration. After that, he joined the UVa faculty where he has been an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, and as director of health policy and equity at the UVa medical school.
Webb will be Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity on the new White House COVID team.
Former FBI Director James B. Comey returns to Washington Post Live to discuss his latest book, “Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust,” exploring fairness and equity in the U.S. justice system. From the FBI to his work as an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy attorney general, Comey will give us his perspective on the political and legal ramifications of a post-Trump Washington. Join Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 2:30 p.m. ET.
Jack Goldsmith, a veteran of the George W. Bush Justice Department and co-author of “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” will explore the legalities and political parameters of removing a president from power and discuss his recommendations for protecting and reforming democratic institutions as the nation prepares for the new presidency. Join Washington Post columnist David Ignatius in conversation with Goldsmith on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 11:00 a.m. ET.
The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, launched in 2018, attempted to stem immigration through measures including separating migrant children from their parents at the southern U.S. border actions that legal and human rights experts say resulted in the separation of nearly 3,000 parents from their children. Hundreds of children remain lost as of this writing, and zero tolerance was only one of a set of policies that sowed chaos and misery in the name of drastically reducing border crossings. It could leave administration officials open to prosecution.
A report released earlier this year by Physicians for Human Rights concluded that the Trump administration’s family separation policies “rise to the level of torture,” which is prohibited under domestic and international law.