Perhaps more than any other official he’s been in the crosshairs of Republicans in the wake of the election. He’s a Republican, but those within his own party told him to step down.
He has rebuffed those demands, and on Tuesday said he remains a “conservative Republican, and that hasn’t changed” though he ducked the offer by moderator Yamiche Alcindor, a PBS reporter, to say whether he regretted his vote for Mr. Trump.
The president has insisted he is the winner of the election, but says fraud and other malfeasance have denied him his victory. His team has filed dozens of legal challenges, but they’ve been spectacularly unsuccessful in those cases, with judges spanning the country and the ideological spectrum saying he hasn’t proved his case.
Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also said Mr. Trump, who already tested positive for the virus, and Vice President Mike Pence should receive the vaccine.
“You still want to protect people who are very important to our country right now,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America. “To be doubly sure, I would recommend that he get vaccinated as well as the vice president.”
Mr. Trump said Sunday that he’s not scheduled to take the vaccine but that he looks forward to doing so when it’s appropriate.
Mr. Biden has said he would lean on Dr. Fauci, who he named as a chief medical adviser, for advice on when to take a vaccine.
The victims included suspected snitches, rival dealers and those they thought disrespected the gang. One victim was stabbed 85 times, while another was shot and stabbed.
Johnson’s accomplices, James Roane and Richard Tipton, remain on death row, but no execution date has been scheduled.
In court filings Tuesday, Johnson’s attorneys said he is exempt from the death penalty because he is intellectually disabled. They say childhood records show impairments in everyday life skills and can produce a slew of medical experts and associates of Johnson who can verify that claim.
When Johnson was 13, he was abandoned by his drug-addicted mother to a residential facility for children with intellectual and emotional impairments, according to court documents. His lawyers say he was placed there because he could not learn, and she could not cope with his limitations.
By Yucatan Times on December 14, 2020
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President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. surpassed the all-important threshold in the Electoral College when California’s electors cast their votes, after a day in which the process unfolded smoothly.
WASHINGTON D.C. (The New York Times) – Joseph R. Biden Jr. was affirmed as the president-elect on Monday as members of the Electoral College pushed him past the 270 threshold to win the White House, all but ending a disruptive chapter in American history in which President Trump sought to use legal challenges and political pressure to overturn the results of a free and fair election.
A nonbinding 1974 opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, issued just days before President Nixon resigned, says it “would seem” a president cannot pardon himself. Yet that opinion is less than a paragraph and carries no real legal force.
Legal analysts say a self-pardon would run afoul of the Constitution, citing the Founding Fathers’ efforts to limit presidential pardon powers.
The Constitution’s pardon provisions are extremely broad, but there are other places in the document to glean the framers’ thinking.
One place is the provision on impeachment and removal, which states that a president can be charged with a crime after he leaves office.