Coronavirus: Trump vs. Governors
- Trump: It’s my decision, not governors’, to reopen country by Quint Forgey, Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump claims he, not governors, has authority on opening state economies by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
- Governors form groups to explore lifting virus restrictions; Trump says he alone will decide by Tim Craig and Brady Dennis (Washington Post)
- Trump Declares He Has ‘Total’ Authority As President In Defiant Press Briefing by Josephine Harvey (Huffington Post)
- Twitter Erupts Over ‘Emperor’ Trump’s Claim His ‘Authority Is Total’ by Josephine Harvey (Huffington Post)
- Governors Refute Trump’s Claim He Has ‘Total’ Authority on Easing COVID-19 Restrictions by Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Geoff Mulvihill / AP (TIME)
- West Coast and Northeast Governors Form Separate Agreements to Coordinate Economic Reopenings by AP (TIME)
- States vs. Trump on economic reopening by Jen Kirby (Vox)
Coronavirus: Fauci
- Coronavirus: Trump retweets call to fire gov’t expert Fauci (Al Jazeera)
- Fauci acknowledged a delay in the US coronavirus response. Trump then retweeted a call to fire him. by Sean Collins (Vox)
- White House denies Trump is considering firing Fauci despite his retweet of a hashtag calling for his ouster by Katie Sheered and John Wagner (Washington Post)
- Dr. Fauci is still the most trusted leader in America on the coronavirus, while Trump and Jared Kushner are in last place by Jake Lahut (Business Insider)
- Trump is not firing top scientist Dr Anthony Fauci: White House (Al Jazeera)
Coronavirus: Supreme Court
- Supreme Court To Hold May Oral Arguments By Teleconference by AP (Huffington Post)
- SCOTUS will hear arguments by telephone conference in several cases because of COVID-19 by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- Emergency petition asks Supreme Court to allow medication abortions in Texas by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
Coronavirus
- More than 3,600 U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Have Been Linked to Nursing Homes by Bernard Condon, Randy Herschaft / AP (TIME)
- States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump by Anita Kumar, Gavin Bade (Politico)
- 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Under Development, With 3 in Human Trials, WHO Says by Lisa Du / Bloomberg (TIME)
- A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump’s Promises Largely Unfulfilled by Tim Mak, Sacha Pfeiffer, Huo Jingnan, Robert Benincasa, Graham Smith, Joseph Shapiro, Meg Anderson (NPR)
- US coronavirus outbreak could peak this week: CDC director (Al Jazeera)
- Congress Still At Stalemate Over Another Round Of Coronavirus Relief by Igor Bobic, Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
- Why Counties Are Handling The Coronavirus Better Than Trump by Richard Thompson Ford (Slate)
- Opinion: The Coronavirus Stimulus Is Playing Hard to Get by Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan (NY Times)
- White House Correspondents’ Dinner rescheduled for August by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump admin requests delays in census deadlines by Matthew Choi (Politico)
- Analysis: The reality of coronavirus testing continues to differ from Trump’s claims by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Trump likely to announce new curbs on funding for World Health Organization this week by Anne Gearan (Washington Post)
- Analysis: How false hope spread about hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 — and the consequences that followed by Elyse Samuels and Meg Kelly (Washington Post)
- Anti-malarial drug touted by Trump was subject of CIA warning to employees by Devlin Barrett (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Trump’s propaganda-laden, off-the-rails coronavirus briefing by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Trump’s grand reopening council triggers a slew of new questions by Nancy Cook (Politico)
- These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America by Sam Van Pykeren (Mother Jones)
- Trump Responds to Reports About His Incompetence by Flying Into a Self-Pitying Rage at Press by Ashley Feinberg (Slate)
- Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum by David Smith (Guardian)
- Trump Campaign Sues Wisconsin Broadcaster Over Virus-Response Ad by Andy Monserud (Courthouse News)
Other News
- A Shockingly Long List of Corrupt Officials and Political Allies Pardoned by Trump by Becky Z. Dernbach (Mother Jones)
- Senate hits pause on confirming Trump’s judges by Marianne Levine (Politico)
- Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden after dropping out of the 2020 race by Sonam Sheth and Eliza Relman (Business Insider)
- Trump’s New Press Secretary Is an Apologist for Explicit Racism by William Saletan (Slate)
Analysis
- Trump’s voters will never admit they were wrong — even in the face of national catastrophe by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Trump’s Women Are Trapped in a Cult of “Empowerment” by Nina Burleigh (The New Republic)
Opinion
- Trump and the Criminal Culture by Roxana Robinson (Scoundrel Time)