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Dr. Philip Lee Is Dead at 96; Engineered Introduction of Medicare

November 20, 2020
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first_imgBy February 1967, a year or less after many of the law’s provisions had taken effect, 95 percent of hospitals were compliant, Dr. Lee said. “He was largely responsible for that effort,” said Professor David Barton Smith of Drexel University and author of “The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health System” (2016).Dr. Lee hailed from a family of physicians — his father and four siblings were doctors — and while working in the Palo Alto Medical Clinic (now the Palo Alto Medical Foundation), which his father founded, he saw firsthand the effects on the poor and the elderly of inadequate health care and the lack of insurance coverage.As early as 1961, he was a consultant on aging to the Santa Clara Department of Welfare in California, and as a member of the American Medical Association and a Republican at the time, he defied both the A.M.A. and his party in testifying before Congress on behalf of a precursor to Medicare that would have helped pay for hospital and nursing home care through Social Security for patients over 65.Dr. Lee was branded a socialist and a Communist (no matter that he had served as a doctor in the Korean War). Dr. Lee’s use of Medicare funding to desegregate hospitals “changed the economic lives of millions of seniors,” Mr. Lee added. In 1987, after leading the University of California, San Francisco, and heading health policy and research programs there as a professor of social medicine, he further riled fellow physicians when, as chairman of Congressional commission, he recommended a standardized national limit on how much doctors enrolled in the Medicare program, with a vast pool of patients available to them, could charge above a fixed schedule.He was called back to Washington in 1993, again to be an assistant secretary, this time of the renamed Department of Health and Human Services under the Clinton administration. Serving until 1997, he advised the White House on its ultimately failed effort on health care reform. – Advertisement – Dr. Philip R. Lee, who as a leading federal health official and fighter for social justice under President Lyndon B. Johnson wielded government Medicare money as a cudgel to desegregate the nation’s hospitals in the 1960s, died on Oct. 27 in a hospital in Manhattan. He was 96.The cause was heart arrhythmia, his wife, Dr. Roz Lasker, said.- Advertisement – In 2007, the university named its Institute for Health Policy Studies, which he founded in 1972, in his honor.He was also lauded for his aggressive role in confronting the AIDS epidemic as the president of the newly-formed Health Commission of the City and County of San Francisco from 1985 to 1989.The author of a half-dozen books, Dr. Lee was an early critic of the pharmaceutical industry in “Pills, Profits and Politics” (1974, with Milton Silverman).Dr. Lee’s first two marriages, to Catherine Lockridge and Carroll Estes, ended in divorce. In addition to his wife, he is survived by five children from his first marriage, Dorothy, Paul, Margaret, Theodore Lee and Amy Lee Pinneo; a stepdaughter, Duskie Estes, from his second marriage; five grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.Alex Traub contributed reporting. Provisions in the Medicare legislation subjected 7,000 hospitals nationwide to rules barring discrimination against patients on the basis of race, creed or national origin. The law required equal treatment across the board — from medical and nursing care to bed assignments and cafeteria and restroom privileges — and barred discrimination in hiring, training or promotion.Before the law took effect in 1966, fewer than half the hospitals in the country met the desegregation standard and less than 25 percent did in the South.“I remember during one of my visits,” Dr. Lee told the journal of the American Society on Aging in 2015, “a cardiologist at Georgia Baptist Hospital told me, ‘Well, you know, Dr. Lee, if I put a nigger in with one of my white patients, it would kill the patient. My patient would die of a heart attack.’”- Advertisement – From his office at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs from 1965 to 1969, Dr. Lee engineered the introduction of Medicare, which was established for older Americans in 1965, one year after Johnson had bulldozed his landmark civil-rights bill through Congress.“To Phil, Medicare wasn’t just a ‘big law’ expanding coverage; it was a vehicle to address racial and economic injustice,” his nephew Peter Lee, the executive director of Covered California, which runs the state’s health care marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, was quoted as saying in a tribute by the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lee was the university’s chancellor from 1969 to 1972, after leaving the Johnson administration. In 2015 he endorsed the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act and suggested that the country could go even further in guaranteeing universal health care.“In 1967, President Johnson said we would continue to work until equality of treatment is the rule,” Dr. Lee wrote in Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. “By making Medicare an option for all Americans, the kind of care I receive could be available to everyone.”Philip Randolph Lee was born in San Francisco on April 17, 1924, to Dr. Russell Van Arsdale Lee, who had lobbied for national health insurance as a member of a commission appointed by President Harry S. Truman, and Dorothy (Womack) Lee, an amateur musician.His interest in medicine, he told Stanford Medicine Magazine in 2004, “began with house calls with my dad from the age of 6 or 7.”He earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees at Stanford University in 1945 and 1948. As a member of the Naval Reserve, he was on active duty as a doctor from 1943 to 1946 and again from 1949 to 1951, during the Inchon invasion in Korea. He received a master of science degree from the University of Minnesota in 1955 and had fellowships at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York and the Mayo Clinic.“Phil moved from clinical medicine to health policy and then devoted his life to addressing issues at the nexus of civil rights, social justice and health,” Dr. Lasker, his wife, said in an email.His prominent role in shaping Medicare and other federal health policies was preceded by a stint, 1963-65, as director of health for the Agency for International Development. As chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he was credited with increasing racial diversity among its staff, faculty and student body. – Advertisement –last_img read more

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Here’s what mattered most to voters in the 2020 election

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first_imgThe economy, the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice have emerged as top issues for voters in the 2020 presidential election, according to NBC News exit polls.According to early results from the NBC News survey of early and Election Day voters, about a third of respondents identified the economy as the most decisive issue in how they voted for president. Racial inequality was the top issue for 21% of surveyed voters, and 18% said the Covid-19 crisis mattered most in their decision.When asked about the tradeoff between containing the coronavirus and rebuilding the economy, 52% of voters believed controlling the pandemic, even if it hurts the economy, was more important.- Advertisement – – Advertisement – Responses aligned closely with voters’ choices in the presidential election. Voters for President Donald Trump were more likely to point to the economy and crime and safety as important issues, while voters for Democratic challenger Joe Biden were more likely to identify the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice.In their final messages to voters, Trump strayed from the economic populism that fueled his 2016 victory, while Biden centered the coronavirus pandemic. Biden has repeatedly criticized the president for his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, which has claimed more than 230,000 American lives this year and is surging across the country.While Trump and Biden have often framed the election as a choice regarding character, 72% of voters believed a candidate’s issue positions were more important than their personal qualities, NBC News exit polls found.- Advertisement – – Advertisement –center_img Residents vote at the Beloit Historical Society on November 03, 2020 in Beloit, Wisconsin.Scott Olson | Getty Images As polls begin to close across the country and states begin to tally ballots, results released tonight and in the coming days will show how these issues translated into votes for president.Subscribe to CNBC PRO for access to the livestream of CNBC’s continuous election and business news coverage.last_img read more

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Call in presidential race not likely for at least a day

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first_img– Advertisement – – Advertisement – A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections inspects an absentee ballot at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center on November 4, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.Elaine Cromie | Getty Images Georgia and North Carolina, which both were too close to call just after midnight Wednesday, also are likely to take some more time as more ballots come in. Georgia has 16 electoral votes, and North Carolina has 15.Democrat Joe Biden had hoped to pick off at least Florida or North Carolina, but as of midnight Tuesday, President Donald Trump held leads in those two swing states, according to NBC News.Pennsylvania had long been expected to take a while for votes to be fully counted since officials there are not allowed to open mailed ballots until Election Day. With record numbers of voters casting their ballots by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic, that could significantly delay the results from the state. Don’t hold your breath for a call in the presidential race.Election results from Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania could take until later this week to complete official tallies, according to officials.The three states represent a combined 46 electoral votes, with 16 from Michigan, 20 from Pennsylvania and 10 from Wisconsin. That’s nearly a fifth of the required 270 electoral votes for a victory.- Advertisement –center_img Officials in Michigan and Wisconsin have also said it will take extra time to count all of their ballots. Michigan officials believe they need 24 more hours to tally votes, MSNBC reported late Tuesday.  In Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Elections Director Julietta Henry told reporters that they weren’t expecting to finish counting absentee votes until as late as 7 a.m. ET Wednesday.The three states could prove critical if the results are still unclear by early Wednesday. Trump won all three states by relatively small margins when running against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Democrats have been hoping to win back those states with Biden.Subscribe to CNBC on YouTube.WATCH: Here’s what Election Day looked like across America – Advertisement – A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections waits for the next absentee ballot to be sorted through at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center on November 4, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.Elaine Cromie | Getty Imageslast_img read more

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Cat Tuivaiti to join Severn Stars as specialist coach for 2021 season | Netball News

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first_imgHannah HowlChloe Carchrie After time playing with Sirens, Cat Tuivaiti is returning to the Superleague in a coaching capacity with Severn Stars “Cat is family to me,” Bessell said to Sky Sports. “She was headhunted by so many of the franchises asking her whether she could come back and be a player-coach.“Before we had the lockdown in England, I’d been over to Italy to see her and her son Bash [Sebastian] anyway. I asked her what she was planning on doing, whether she was going to play or not, and she shared that she’d like to get into coaching.“I said straight away that she could be with me. I knew that I needed someone to help with my shooters and knew that Cat could take it to a different level.- Advertisement – Georgia RoweBethan Dyke Ellie GibbonsIman Thomas Enjoy the brilliance of Cat Tuivaiti on court and admire her tricks from her time with Stratclyde Sirens “We had a brilliant meeting as a management team last week and I was so excited when I got off it, because Cat brought everything that I knew she would to that meeting.“It just showed everybody within the management team, why she’s the one for us. She’s going to be something special this year.“Cat’s really excited and can’t wait to get into it. This is something new for her… I’m not saying that she would never play again either, because she’s looking pretty good but for this season, to have her in a coaching capacity is a real bonus.” Training Partners “She brings so much and things that are just so amazing.”Tuivaiti and Bessell share a close bond, Bessell’s brother calls her ‘Sis’ and Tuivaiti’s netball career actually started with the help of the Stars head coach’s family.“My mother actually found her as a netballer. Mum drove up north [in New Zealand], she was driving through where Cat lived and went to watch a school netball tournament.“She saw this netballer giving a lot of attitude on the court and said that there was something special about her. My mum got Cat a school scholarship so then drove up to Cat’s family home, met her mum and dad, and brought Cat back for her netball.“She lived with my mum and my dad, hence why there’s such a close relationship between our families. Cat is an extension of my family that is how it all started.“There’s a very special connection between Cat and I, I’m like her big sister. I’ve always been her sounding board, when things have got tough or she just wants a shoulder to lean on… I’m there.” Tuivaiti will be the second current/former player within Bessell’s coaching unit, after Sam Cook took up the role of assistant coach last season.The trio have an incredibly motivated and passionate squad to work with too, which is going to be led by Liana Leota as captain and Nia Jones as vice-captain.“It’s another string to our bow,” Jones said about Tuivaiti’s arrival.“When Melissa was the Welsh coach, I worked with Cat before and we learnt so much from her then. She’s got such a great way with people. She’s really direct but actually really chilled out at the same time.“Cat’s full of fun and has a wicked sense of humour. I’ve actually played against her back when we played in Super Club in 2017 and she gave me a real elbow to the nose! It took me to the floor… so I’m hoping I can bring the footage back just to tease her!“I suppose that’s what I get being 5ft 7in and being a defender in the circle,” Jones added with a massive smile on her face.“She’s a fierce competitor and will bring so many benefits to our shooting circle. Also, having her presence in training will raise all of our standards.“When we step into an arena with her by our side, it’s that bit of extra fear that we can put to our opponents, with them knowing she’s in our corner.“We’re so grateful that Cat’s bringing little baby Bash over and that she’s going to be part of our family.”Keep up to date with all of the latest netball news at skysports.com/netball, follow our Twitter account @SkyNetball & get the Sky Sports app – on the go! Available to download now on – iPhone & iPad and Android Cat Tuivaiti is joining the management team of head coach Melissa Bessell at Severn Stars for the 2021 Vitality Netball Superleague season. The New Zealand international shooter, who previously played for Strathclyde Sirens in the Superleague before announcing her pregnancy, is set to return to the UK in a coaching capacity.Tuivaiti’s natural flair and instinct on court meant she quickly became one of the league’s favourites last time around, and it was not surprising to hear from Bessell her new coach’s services were highly sought after.- Advertisement – Paige ReedLucy Harris New Zealand international shooter Cat Tuivaiti will be a specialist coach at the Vitality Netball Superleague franchise and join head coach Melissa Bessell and assistant coach Sam Cook in their management team By Emma ThurstonLast Updated: 04/11/20 7:50am 0:59 Enjoy the brilliance of Cat Tuivaiti on court and admire her tricks from her time with Stratclyde Sirens Jane TaylorLucy Herdman Senior Squad Tuivaiti, whose husband Jimmy plays professional rugby in Italy, is set to arrive in England in the New Year and when she does, she will join the Severn Stars head coach’s family home.Before then, Tuivaiti will be linking into the franchise via video conferences and in their first last week, Bessell was thrilled the whole management team responded to her presence.“We’ve already planned her route; she’s going to fly into London, and I’ll pick her up from the airport. She’s already got her room set up and she’ll be in my family bubble,” Bessell said.“She’s not going to come over before Christmas, because we’ll do everything via Zoom before then instead. Then, when the New Year hits, she’ll come over and if she stays with me for a couple of months or more, that’s what we’ll do. Malysha KellyFinal player subject to contract clearance Liana Leota (captain)Nia Jones (vice-captain) Severn Stars Squad – 2021 Vitality Netball Superleague season – Advertisement – After time playing with Sirens, Cat Tuivaiti is returning to the Superleague in a coaching capacity with Severn Stars
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Joe Biden profile: Third White House run lucky for ‘Middle Class Joe’

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U.S.-India relationship to remain ‘strategic imperative’ under Biden

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first_img– Advertisement – He said both men see the U.S.-India partnership as a “strategic imperative.” That shared view is “rooted in the bipartisan consensus in Washington that US-China rivalry is here to stay, and that New Delhi is a like-minded partner that shares the US goal of counterbalancing Beijing in the broader region,” Kugelman said by email.Still, he pointed out in a tweet that Biden “won’t make foreign policy (much less South Asia) an initial priority.” Instead, his early focus will be on the home front, tackling issues such as Covid-19, the U.S. economy and reconciliation.U.S.-India ties under TrumpUnder the Trump administration, the India-U.S. relationship has had a mixed outcome.- Advertisement – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks one day after Americans voted in the presidential election, on November 04, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.Drew Angerer | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Strengthening U.S. relations with India will likely remain a focus for the Biden administration, experts told CNBC.Democrat Joe Biden is set to defeat incumbent Donald Trump in the race to become the next U.S. president, according to NBC News projections on Saturday. However, Trump has refused to concede and his campaign has mounted several legal challenges over how the ballots are being tabulated.India is one of the few issues where there is a convergence between Biden and Trump and there will likely be continuity in American policy toward the South Asian country, according to Michael Kugelman, deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center.- Advertisement – – Advertisement –center_img On the trade front, tensions flared after the U.S. last year removed India from a long-running program that allowed the South Asian country to export many of its goods to the U.S. without tariffs. In response, India levied retaliatory tariffs on selected U.S. products.But on the military front, U.S.-India ties have strengthened in light of rising tensions between India and China. Last month, the U.S. and India inked a major defense deal that Washington typically signs with close allies, that will allow New Delhi to access U.S. satellite data crucial for targeting missiles and other military assets.President-elect Biden “has long championed strong US-India ties,” Harsh Pant, head of the strategic studies program at Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, told CNBC.The Indian government was “a bit hesitant” during the Obama administration about fostering closer ties with the U.S., according to Pant. Today, things are different: There is “great receptivity” in New Delhi that a strong U.S.-India relationship is important for the South Asian country’s “global ambitions as well as managing China breathing down its neck in the Himalayas,” Pant said.Military allianceEarlier this year, India and China were caught in a tense border face-off in the Himalayas that killed 20 Indian soldiers. Experts said at that time it was a turning point for the India-China relationship and that it could prompt New Delhi to build closer ties with countries like the U.S. while still retaining its strategic autonomy.India is part of an informal strategic dialogue that also includes the U.S., Japan and Australia called the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue — commonly known as the Quad. The U.S. State Department describes the Quad’s role as “collective efforts to advance a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific.”“While Biden and his advisors have not specifically mentioned the Quad, it is likely they will continue strengthening that dialogue, while also collaborating with India in multilateral settings,” Akhil Bery, South Asia analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, told CNBC. Biden has been a champion of the U.S.-India relationship for a long time, according to Bery.As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 2000s, he urged the administration of George W. Bush to drop sanctions on India and later helped shepherd through the civil nuclear agreement between the two countries. During the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president, India was also designated a major defense partner, allowing New Delhi to buy more advanced and sensitive technologies from the U.S., according to Bery.While defense sales by the U.S. to India would likely continue under the new Biden administration, Bery said in a note last month that a potential point of friction could be New Delhi’s plans to buy a type of surface-to-air missile systems from Moscow.Still, Bery said it is unlikely that the U.S. under Biden would directly insert itself into the ongoing border dispute between India and China.Trade and immigrationThe Biden administration will likely focus on the overall bilateral relationship with India rather than specifically on trade, according to Bery. That could mean the U.S. may not reinstate India’s trade privileges under a previous program which allowed the South Asian country to export many of its goods to the U.S. without tariffs.On the immigration front, Bery said that Biden’s policy agenda includes commitment to reforming a visa program that would benefit India.The Trump administration cracked down on the H-1B visa program — the skilled work visa that is used by immigrants, including Indians working in the U.S. tech sector. The move drew strong criticism from U.S. companies that rely on that visa to hire thousands of staff.Biden will also be more keen on finding new areas of partnership with New Delhi, including issues like climate change, the Wilson Center’s Kugelman added.“Furthermore, Biden’s more conventional and predictable style of leadership will mean that New Delhi would have a less mercurial partner in the White House than it’s had with Trump,” he said.Human rightsStill, experts predicted that a Biden administration will more likely raise human rights concerns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s government, particularly if there are more instances of sectarian violence in India like those seen earlier this year.“Biden and Congressional Democrats would be more vocal than Trump in criticizing India over human rights,” Bery wrote last month. Key concerns include New Delhi’s crackdown on, and detention of, politicians in Kashmir, he said, as well as “divisive Hindu nationalist social policies, and anti-Muslim rhetoric.”In one of his policy agenda documents, Biden expressed disappointment with New Delhi over its stance on Kashmir as well as a controversial citizenship law that grants citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim minorities who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before 2015. Critics say the law excludes Muslim minorities fleeing persecution and goes against India’s secular principals.“These measures are inconsistent with the country’s long tradition of secularism and with sustaining a multi-ethnic and multi-religious democracy,” according to the Biden campaign’s website. Furthermore, Biden’s more conventional and predictable style of leadership will mean that New Delhi would have a less mercurial partner in the White House than it’s had with Trump.Michael KugelmanThe Wilson Centerlast_img read more

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Saeb Erekat: Key Palestinian negotiator dies of Covid-19

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Obama: Election fraud claims ‘delegitimising’ democracy

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In Unusually Political Speech, Alito Says Liberals Pose Threat to Liberties

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first_img“Now I’m all in favor of preventing dangerous things from issuing out of Cambridge and infecting the rest of the country and the world,” said Justice Alito, who attended Princeton and Yale Law School. “It would be good if what originates in Cambridge stayed in Cambridge.”Justice Alito went on to quote, with disdain, Mark Tushnet, a Harvard Law School professor.The professor, Justice Alito said, had written: “The culture wars are over; they lost, we won.”This was evidence, Justice Alito said, of liberal orthodoxy.“For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom,” he said. “It’s often just an excuse for bigotry, and it can’t be tolerated.”In an interview on Friday, Professor Tushnet said Justice Alito’s criticism of the statements he made in a blog post four years ago indicated that the points he made were correct.“The very intensity of Justice Alito’s remarks seems to me to confirm my judgment about who won the culture wars,” Professor Tushnet said. “His are in fact the observations of a person who hasn’t come to grips with the fact that he’s been on the losing side of many culture war issues.”In his remarks on Thursday, Justice Alito said the right to free speech was under threat, too.“Tolerance for opposing views is now in short supply at many law schools and in the broader academic community,” he said.He recalled the days of the comedian George Carlin’s “seven dirty words” monologue, which had been the subject of a 1978 Supreme Court decision allowing the government to restrict the use of vulgar language on broadcast television. “Today you can see shows on your TV screen in which the dialogue appears at times to consist almost entirely of those words,” Justice Alito said. “Carlin’s list seems like a quaint relic.”“But it would be easy to put together a new list called ‘things you can’t say if you are a student or a professor at a college or university or an employee of many big corporations.’ And there wouldn’t be just seven items on that list,” he said. “Seventy times seven would be closer to the mark.”A prime example, he said, was opposition to same-sex marriage.“You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman,” Justice Alito said. “Until very recently that’s what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now it’s considered bigotry.” “Other than an ethical line about prejudging cases and avoiding the appearance of bias,” Professor Amar said, “it’s a matter of what you think a good judge should do and the image a judge should cultivate.”- Advertisement – Still, it was jarring, some legal commentators said, to hear political sentiments, even ones echoing judicial opinions, during a webcast aimed at conservative lawyers.“Justice Alito’s speech Thursday was more befitting a Trump rally than a legal society,” said Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, a nonprofit group that has called for stricter ethics rules for the Supreme Court.Others said it was unexceptional for justices to describe positions they had already taken in their judicial work.- Advertisement – WASHINGTON — In an unusually caustic and politically tinged speech, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a conservative legal group that liberals posed a growing threat to religious liberty and free speech.The remarks, made at the Federalist Society’s annual convention Thursday night, mirrored statements Justice Alito has made in his judicial opinions, which have lately been marked by bitterness and grievance even as the court has been moving to the right. While Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has tried to signal that the Supreme Court is apolitical, Justice Alito’s comments sent a different message- Advertisement – Coming as they did just weeks after Justice Amy Coney Barrett succeeded Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, giving conservatives a 6 to 3 majority, the remarks alarmed some on the left. But legal experts said there were few clear lines governing what justices may say off the bench.“There’s a difference between what a justice can do and what a justice would be well advised to do,” said Vikram D. Amar, the dean of the University of Illinois College of Law. “I tend to think that John Roberts has a much better instinct toward circumspection.”center_img On Thursday, Justice Alito focused on the effects of the coronavirus, which he said “has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.”“I am not diminishing the severity of the virus’s threat to public health,” he said. “All that I’m saying is this, and I think that it is an indisputable statement of fact: We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020.”Justice Alito was particularly critical of a ruling from the Supreme Court in July that rejected a Nevada church’s challenge to state restrictions on attendance at religious services.The state treated houses of worship less favorably than it did casinos, he said. Casinos were limited to 50 percent of their fire-code capacities, while houses of worship were subject to a flat 50-person limit.“Deciding whether to allow this disparate treatment should not have been a very tough call,” Justice Alito said. “Take a quick look at the Constitution. You will see the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment, which protects religious liberty. You will not find a craps clause, or a blackjack clause, or a slot machine clause.”The ruling was decided by a 5-to-4 vote, with Justice Ginsburg in the majority. Her replacement by Justice Barrett may alter the balance on the court in similar cases, including a pending one from Brooklyn.The Nevada decision was based in part on a 1905 Supreme Court decision concerning an outbreak of smallpox in Cambridge, Mass., the home of Harvard University. “It’s one thing for a justice to speak publicly about an open issue on which the justice hasn’t yet ruled,” Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote on National Review’s Bench Memos blog. “It’s a very different — and much less remarkable — thing for a justice to restate positions that he has already formally adopted.” – Advertisement – Mr. Whelan noted that Justice Ginsburg had criticized President Trump in an interview during the 2016 campaign for refusing to release his tax returns and went on to sit on cases concerning their disclosure. Justice Antonin Scalia, by contrast, recused himself from a case the Pledge of Allegiance after discussing the case in public.Mr. Trump has repeatedly credited the Federalist Society with helping draw up his lists of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. All three of his appointees — Justices Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — appeared on those lists.Public appearances by justices before friendly audiences are commonplace, and several of the court’s more liberal justices have appeared before the American Constitution Society, a liberal group. But the comments they make on such occasions are generally anodyne.At last year’s Federalist Society convention, Justice Kavanaugh’s keynote speech largely consisted of expressions of gratitude to people who had helped him weather his confirmation hearings.Justice Alito’s comments were more pointed, and they were consistent with his sense that his views have not been given the respect they deserve. He felt bruised by some of the questions at his confirmation hearings in 2006, after a career in the Justice Department and on the federal appeals court in Philadelphia.He was not pleased when President Barack Obama criticized the court’s Citizens United campaign finance decision at the State of the Union address in 2010 with six justices present. Mr. Obama said the decision had “reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”Justice Alito responded by mouthing the words “not true.” He has not attended another State of the Union address.last_img read more

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US pushes international efforts to thwart flu pandemic

November 18, 2020
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first_imgSep 16, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – US officials this week promoted international efforts to prepare for a potential influenza pandemic, announcing an international flu surveillance partnership and promising aid to Vietnam for avian and human flu surveillance.President George W. Bush announced the international partnership when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly Sep 14. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt followed up yesterday by announcing plans to go to Southeast Asia next month to discuss the pandemic threat with leaders there.Also yesterday, the US ambassador to Vietnam, Michael Marine, said the United States would give Vietnam—the country hit hardest by H5N1 avian flu—$2.5 million over the next 5 years for flu surveillance. The aid will begin with a $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report.International partnershipIn his UN speech, Bush said, “If left unchallenged, this [avian flu] virus could become the first pandemic of the 21st century. We must not allow that to happen. Today I’m announcing a new international partnership on avian and pandemic influenza. The partnership requires countries that face an outbreak to immediately share information and provide samples to the World Health Organization (WHO).”By requiring transparency, we can respond more rapidly to dangerous outbreaks and stop them on time. Many nations have already joined this partnership; we invite all nations to participate. It’s essential that we work together, and as we do so, we will fulfill a moral duty to protect our citizens, and heal the sick, and comfort the afflicted.”Yesterday Leavitt announced he would lead a US delegation to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam next month to meet with heads of state and health ministers concerning flu issues. “I will be seeking their critical involvement and personal commitment to preparedness and response,” he said in a prepared statement discussing the new partnership.”In Southeast Asia, I will be negotiating agreements with the most-affected nations to offer assistance to build their capacity to identify outbreaks and respond rapidly when needed,” Leavitt said. “We feel a common and genuine sense of urgency.”He also said, “On the international front, we must have complete transparency. We must have joint rapid response capabilities. We must conduct cooperative surveillance. We must share epidemiological data and samples with each other and with the World Health Organization. We must have commitment from the highest political levels in countries around the world to adhere to these principles.”An AFP report today said the WHO, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and at least 16 countries already have agreed to join the partnership. The countries listed were Argentina, Australia, Britain, Cambodia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.US Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky told AFP, “In the coming weeks, we plan to hold a senior officials meeting of all partners in Washington to identify steps to achieve transparency, to improve donor coordination, to build capacity and develop containment strategies.”The WHO welcomed the partnership, according to AFP reports. WHO spokesman Iain Simpson said the agency strongly endorsed the group’s goals, but he was waiting for more information on how countries could be required to share samples.”As with any international agreement, the question is enforcement,” he said.Aid to VietnamCommenting on the aid to Vietnam, Marine said, as quoted by AFP, “This network focuses on systematic collection of information about influenza, information about what viruses are causing it, how they are being spread, and how fast.”The CDC has signed an agreement with Vietnam to provide $500,000 for equipment and laboratory reagents to help improve lab-based surveillance for flu and to develop a flu surveillance network in Vietnam, Dr. Tim Uyeki of the CDC’s influenza branch in Atlanta told CIDRAP News.This is not the first time the CDC has helped Vietnam in its battle with avian flu, “but it’s the most substantial amount of funding,” Uyeki said. He said the CDC has assisted Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi with human flu–related activities since 1998, providing training, reagents, and specimen testing. The CDC has also collaborated with the institute on avian flu activities since 2001, he said.Marine said the funding is expected to total $2.5 million over the next 5 years but is subject to availability, according to AFP. He said the assistance plan was not directly related to the partnership announced by Bush.See also:Text of President Bush’s speech to the UNhttp://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050914.htmlLeavitt statement on the international partnershiplast_img read more

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