The $1.9 trillion package "is calibrated to be of a magnitude to finally deal this COVID-19 virus the blow that hasn't occurred yet," Bernstein says.
In remarks delivered virtually at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, President Biden said, "America is back" and spoke about the importance of trans-Atlantic alliances.
Biden gets chance to leave mark on federal judiciary as judges step aside By Melissa Quinn Biden to fill federal court vacancies
Washington – The opportunity for President Biden to make his own stamp on the federal judiciary and chip away at his predecessor s impact on the courts has quickly come knocking at the White House s door, with a slew of federal judges announcing their plans to step down over the past several weeks.
Already, 39 judges on the federal circuit courts and trial courts have announced plans to vacate their seats in the wake of the inauguration either by retiring or taking senior status, a form of semi-retirement in which judges have a reduced caseload, according to data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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The Founders Were Wrong About Democracy
The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.
February 15, 2021
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If there was one idea shared by just about every author of the Constitution, it was the one articulated by James Madison at the convention on June 26, 1787.
The mass of the people would be susceptible to “fickleness and passion,” he warned. They would suffer from “want of information as to their true interest.” Those who must “labour under all the hardships of life” would “secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings.” Over time, as the population expanded and crowded into cities, the risk would only worsen that “the major interest might under sudden impulses be tempted to commit injustice on the minority.”