INSIDER TODAY: The scary White House outbreak should make Trump think again about reopening
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The message of these charts and other measures of regional activity and commerce is clear: Lockdowns are having aimpact, but the main force that is depressing our economy is the desire of citizens and business owners not to catch or spread the coronavirus."...the labor market slowdown was due primarily to a nationwide response to evolving epidemiological conditions... individual state policies and own epidemiologic situations have had a comparatively modest effect.
The president, who has never turned over his tax returns and has blocked every investigation of his convoluted finances, claims he doesn't have to supply the records to Congress because they have no legitimate legislative reason to ask for them — even though historically courts have ruled that Congress, an equal branch of government, has vast, essentially untrammeled power to gather documents in the course of its work.
And if Trump wins Tuesday, he may get the Supreme Court to validate a theory of power that makes the US President above criminal law, beyond investigation by Congress, and untouchable by the courts. Musk threatens to leave California because of its "fascist" coronavirus restrictions Meanwhile, Californians who share the assemblywoman's view can rightly point out that, if Nevada's lax restrictions facilitate the spread of the coronavirus, freely traveling Nevadans might soon infect more cautious Californians again.Jessica McGowan/Business Insider
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