Prosecutor’s memo: Pritzker’s stay home order may not survive scrutiny in court

Says the state’s Appellate Prosecutor’s Office:

“My research leaves me less than confident that a reviewing court will hold that the Governor has the authority close businesses (sic), bar attendance at church services and assemblies in excess of ten citizens (particularly if they are assembling to redress grievances),” Robinson wrote.

“From a strict enforcement standpoint, although well-intentioned on an emergency basis, the EO (executive order) is very broad and does not appear to meet strict scrutiny – this is not to mention the EO appears to be beyond the framework of the specific Act [it] cites as support.”

Sloppiness in Guv P’s office?

via Cook County Record

US cardinal dismisses prayer power during pandemic: We can’t just pray and think things will change

We have to wonder why he beats this drum in this way at this time. It’s a harsh way to put down foolishness. Does he know of Catholics who dismiss self-help and ignore danger for the sake of magical prayer? Is this how he sees the day’s challenges?

It’s as if he sees his role as designated apologizer for the supernatural, front man for an organization eager for majority support. A little nuance might work better. It’s unseemly for him to appear so eager to cater to the suspicious or uninformed.

Later: Whom does he know who prays but ignores the peril? It’s Cupich one, straw man nothing.

Turley: Say, why isn’t the media talking about Biden’s paranoid-conspiracy mongering?

Answer? Easy:

Probably for the same reason the media won’t cover Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden. To cover either story would potentially help Donald Trump, and that is something media outlets will go far out of their way to avoid.

CBS legal analyst and center-left attorney Jonathan Turley raised the issue I covered on Friday, which is the former VP’s serial public allegations that Trump would somehow try to postpone or cancel the election in November.

A bridge too far for Joe B. But mainstream says so what.

[WATCH] California Docs Say Lockdown vs. Non-Lockdown ‘Did Not Produce a Statistically Different Number of Deaths’

Isn’t this interesting.

Both doctors understand and support the initial reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak by the federal, state and local governments. It was a novel virus and there was very limited information.

However, now they assert that the data is telling them that the disease pattern of COVID-19 is more like the flu. [!]

Dr. Erickson phrased it this way, “Millions of cases, a small number of deaths.”

He specifically noted that the difference in the number of deaths between Sweden, with limited restrictions, and Norway, which locked down, is not statistically significant.

Nice try, but made no difference.

New Revelations About Biden Accuser Tara Reade Causes #BidenDropOut to Trend

If you’re trending, you better watch out. Joe B’s past haunts.

The media did its best to ignore the assault allegations against Joe Biden, but the video of the mother of accuser Tara Reade calling the Larry King Live show in 1993 has changed things.

Even some well known Democrats are saying Biden should drop out.

In my humble (worthless?) opinion, it’s not going to happen.