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Newest Supreme Court Justice - Amy Coney Barrett

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Charles Borden Jr. is pleading guilty for processing a firearm as a felon. He objects to having three prior convictions since one was for reckless aggravated assault.

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Facts of the case

Police caught Charles Borden, Jr., with a pistol during a traffic stop in April 2017, and he subsequently pleaded guilty possessing that firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the government recommended sentencing Borden as an armed career criminal, under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), based on three prior Tennessee aggravated assault convictions. Borden objected, arguing that one of his prior convictions-reckless aggravated assault-did not qualify as a "violent felony" under the "use of force" clause of the ACCA. Borden argued that reckless aggravated assault requires only a mental state of recklessness, and reckless use of force does not amount to a crime of violence under the ACCA. Retroactively applying Sixth Circuit precedent holding that reckless aggravated assault does constitute a violent felony under the "use of force" clause of the ACCA, the district court held that all three of Borden's aggravated assault victims constituted "crime[s] of violence" under the ACCA and designated him as an armed career criminal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed.

Question

Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act encompass crimes with an intent requirement of mere recklessness?

Cite this page

"Borden v. United States." Oyez, www.oyez.org/cases/2020/19-5410. Accessed 8 Dec. 2020.

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Police caught Charles Borden, Jr., with a pistol during a traffic stop in April 2017, and he subsequently pleaded guilty possessing that firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the government recommended sentencing Borden as an armed career criminal, under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), based on three prior Tennessee aggravated assault convictions.

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Investigations are being held as many uncounted ballots are being found.

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More than 3,000 uncounted ballots turned up in Georgia as the state is conducting an audit of the 2020 presidential election.

As the hand-tallying continues, officials in Fayette County unearthed 2,755 ballots that had not been included in the original count.
GEORGIA INVESTIGATING VOTE COUNTING DELAYED BY FLOODING IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
"There was an issue where we noticed there were more people on the absentee ballot filed for voting in person in Fayette County than was in the actual reporting," Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling said, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. "It was discovered today for certain. Because of the audit, we found this."

Sterling said the problem was the result of several individuals not following the proper procedures.

An additional 284 ballots were found in Walton County. The local Board of Elections chair, Lori Wood, told the Walton Tribune the problem was due to votes being previously uploaded from only one of the two ballot scanners in a precinct.

"We would have discovered it," Wood said. "Maybe not this week, but we would have discovered it."

The Walton County ballots boosted President Trump's lead in the heavily Republican county by 176 votes.
GEORGIA RECOUNT UNEARTHS MORE THAN 2,600 UNCOUNTED BALLOTS IN FLOYD COUNTY: REPORT
The recent findings follow the discovery of more than 2,600 ballots in Floyd County that had not been counted. At the time, Floyd County Republican Party chair Luke Martin called the mishap "concerning" but insisted that it "doesn't appear to be a widespread issue."

After the Fayette County discovery, Martin pointed to a lack of sufficient observation of the counting process in parts of the state as a possible reason for why no one caught mistakes.

"If this was human error and the Board of Elections allowed the parties, allowed the public to view the counting of the ballots, we could have seen that. But we didn't get the opportunity to be there," Martin told Fox News' " The Story" Tuesday.

The state is also conducting an investigation of Fulton County's election management.

Georgians in 159 counties cast nearly 5 million ballots in the presidential election, according to the secretary of state's office.
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Unless additional uncounted ballots are found during the audit, it does not appear that the audit will result in a change in the state's election result as President-elect Joe Biden had been leading by approximately 14,000 votes. Sterling said the updated count in Fayette County trimmed the lead to just under 13,000.

If the audit were to end up with Trump winning the state, he would still only have 248 electoral votes, with Biden remaining at 290.
Fox News' Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

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Georgia election audit finds 3,039 more uncounted ballots in 2 counties

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More than 3,000 uncounted ballots turned up in Georgia as the state is conducting an audit of the 2020 presidential election.

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Brown vs. Board of Education - May 17th,1954

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Brown vs. Board of Education - May 17th,1954

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This case impacted the educational system drastically. This case ended segregation in schools.

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President Trump needs to make the Coronavirus a priority. 

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President Trump needs to make the Coronavirus a priority. 

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Trump has shown to be shrugging off the coronavirus like its not hurting/killing anyone.

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With two weeks remaining in his re-election campaign, President Trump made the coronavirus his message and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci his foil, dismissing scientific advisers as "these idiots."

President Trump has long tangled with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert. Credit... Pool photo by Graeme Jennings

WASHINGTON - President Trump attacked Dr. Anthony S. Fauci as "a disaster" on Monday and said, despite signs that the nation was headed toward another coronavirus peak, that people were "tired" of hearing about the virus from "these idiots" in the government.

The broadside, during a conference call with campaign staff just two weeks before Election Day, was hardly the closing message Trump advisers were looking for. It threatened to focus the electorate squarely on the president's coronavirus response and pitted him against Dr. Fauci, who as the nation's top infectious disease expert is a career government scientist the public likes and trusts far more than Mr. Trump.

In increasingly vocal terms, Dr. Fauci has been separating himself from the White House and warning Americans to "hunker down" and brace for a difficult winter - a message at odds with Mr. Trump's repeated, if false, assurances that the nation is "rounding the corner" on a pandemic that has claimed about 220,000 American lives.

"People are tired of Covid," Mr. Trump complained on the call, which several reporters were invited into. "I have the biggest rallies I've ever had. And we have Covid. People are saying: 'Whatever. Just leave us alone.' They're tired of it."

He added, "People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong."

Dr. Fauci's cautionary words are borne out by the numbers. More than 70,450 new coronavirus cases were reported in the United States on Friday, the highest figure since July 24, according to a New York Times database. More than 900 new deaths were recorded. And over the past week, there has been an average of 56,615 cases per day, an increase of 30 percent from the average two weeks earlier.

But beyond pushing for a vaccine, the Trump administration has refrained from confronting the threat aggressively, pushing instead to fully open the economy and get children back in school.

The White House coronavirus task force, which met daily at the outset of the pandemic, now meets about once a week and hosts a weekly conference call with governors, typically to address specific topics like testing and nursing home guidance. Its agenda is largely focused on nuts-and-bolts matters like vaccine reimbursements, state and national stockpiles and whether cruise ships should be allowed to sail.

"The administration's coronavirus strategy is fundamentally rooted in the bedrock objective of saving lives and helping our country safely open and stay open," Michael Bars, a White House spokesman, said. "As always, coronavirus-related matters receive appropriate attention, consultation, and input from Task Force experts."

But the composition of the task force is changing.

Mr. Trump's pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott W. Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no experience in infectious disease or epidemiology, is a rising power within the White House, embracing a response that calls for allowing the coronavirus to spread naturally while protecting only the most vulnerable. Over the weekend, Twitter removed a post in which Dr. Atlas questioned the efficacy of mask wearing, decreeing it misinformation.

Such ideas have led to internal clashes - and sometimes turf wars - pitting Dr. Atlas against Dr. Fauci and Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator.

With polls showing the president trailing his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the campaign call was supposed to emphasize a big, positive message, especially on the economy, with reporters listening in and most of the campaign staff participating. The call began with Mr. Trump's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, talking about the Republican ground game and other factors that he said supported Mr. Trump's path to victory.

Then Mr. Trump erupted.

In addition to proclaiming Dr. Fauci an idiot, Mr. Trump also deemed him a "nice" guy - albeit one who, in Mr. Trump's view, has stuck around too long.

"He's been here for 500 years," the president said, adding: "Every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb, but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him. This guy's a disaster."

And at a campaign rally in Prescott, Ariz., on Monday, Mr. Trump invoked Dr. Fauci as a way of ridiculing Mr. Biden's coronavirus plan.

"Biden wants to lock it down. He wants to listen to Dr. Fauci," the president said, referring to coronavirus-related restrictions on the economy. (Dr. Fauci, addressing a group of pathologists last week, said no one wants to "shut down the country again.")

The Biden campaign, which has been emphasizing a promise to listen to science over politics, responded with relish: "Mr. President, you're right about one thing: The American people are tired. They're tired of your lies about this virus."

Last week, Dr. Fauci, a career government scientist who has advised six presidents, accused the president's campaign - though not Mr. Trump himself - of quoting him "completely out of context" and without his permission in a campaign ad. Then, in an interview with the CBS program "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday, Dr. Fauci said he was not surprised that the president had contracted the coronavirus, given the lack of White House precautions.

"Dr.Tony Fauci says we don't allow him to do television, and yet I saw him last night on @60Minutes, and he seems to get more airtime than anybody since the late, great, Bob Hope," the president said on Twitter.

Then the president, harking back to Dr. Fauci's pitch during Opening Day of the baseball season here, added a postscript: "P.S. Tony should stop wearing the Washington Nationals' Mask for two reasons. Number one, it is not up to the high standards that he should be exposing. Number two, it keeps reminding me that Tony threw out perhaps the worst first pitch in the history of Baseball!"

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Mr. Trump speaking to reporters in Phoenix on Monday. The president has often questioned Dr. Fauci's recommendations, and frequently dismisses basic health advice. Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times

Mr. Trump's eruption generated a backlash. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, called Dr. Fauci "one of our country's most distinguished public servants."

"If more Americans paid attention to his advice," Mr. Alexander wrote on Twitter, "we'd have fewer cases of COVID-19, & it would be safer to go back to school & back to work & out to eat."

Neither Dr. Fauci nor officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he heads, responded to a request for comment. But in an interview with The Times last week, before Mr. Trump's latest comments, Dr. Fauci said he was concerned about the coming months, and resisted the idea that the nation was in a "second wave" because "we have never completely gotten out of the first wave."

"I have said many times, and I'll say it again," he said, "that is not a good position to be in as you enter the cooler months of the fall and the colder months of the winter."

Since Dr. Fauci emerged as a villain of the political right, he has been assigned a federal security detail. He and his wife, Christine Grady, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, have been threatened by email, phone and text message. They have even been heckled on the street on their nightly walks, though Dr. Fauci is also sometimes stopped by admirers who thank him and ask to take selfies. Their daughters have also been harassed.

Dr. Fauci's presence at the White House, where he has been a fixture in his decades-long career advising presidents on disease outbreaks, and on television, where he has often appeared to comment on the pandemic, has been severely restricted. Over the summer, Mr. Trump's press office tried to undermine him with an anonymously attributed list of what it said were his misjudgments in the early days of the coronavirus, which they sent to news media organizations.

In a half-hour tête-à-tête with Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, in July, Dr. Fauci confronted him about the move, and about attempts to ignore or block his broadcast media appearances.

During a task force meeting in late September, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx confronted Dr. Atlas over a claim he made to the group to support his call for reopening schools and businesses: that parts of the country - including New York - were nearing 40 to 50 percent immunity, which he said would be enough to slow the spread of the virus.

Scientists and public health experts say that would not be enough to achieve widespread immunity. The two demanded he show evidence for the argument, according to two senior administration officials who witnessed the exchange, which was reported earlier by The Washington Post.

After Dr. Atlas arrived at the White House over the summer and gained virtually unfettered access to Mr. Trump, Dr. Birx stopped briefing the president on the pandemic.

Dr. Fauci has also clashed privately with Dr. Atlas over the science behind wearing face masks. Dr. Atlas has told task force members that mask mandates in states such as Hawaii are proof of their futility in preventing infections.

"The role of public policy here is to get rid of the fear, as opposed to what public health officials who are the face of this continue to do, which is instill fear," Dr. Atlas said in an interview.

"Young people have very low risk of this," he said. "In fact, for people under 70, the case mortality of this is less than 0.5 percent."

Mr. Trump has often questioned Dr. Fauci's recommendations, and frequently dismisses basic health advice, including that people wear masks. At a rally on Sunday and again on Monday, Mr. Trump mocked Mr. Biden for listening to scientists on how to combat the virus. "If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression," Mr. Trump said Sunday.

Mr. Trump has also bristled at Dr. Fauci's superior approval ratings. A poll released late last month by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation found that 68 percent of Americans trusted Dr. Fauci either a great deal or a fair amount to provide reliable information about the virus, while only 40 percent trusted Mr. Trump.

In the "60 Minutes" interview, Dr. Fauci cited the failure of the president's staff to take basic precautions at White House events, including the announcement of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court.

"I was worried that he was going to get sick when I saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people, and almost nobody wearing a mask," Dr. Fauci said. "When I saw that on TV, I said: 'Oh my goodness. Nothing good can come out of that. That's got to be a problem.' And then sure enough, it turned out to be a super-spreader event."

Jim Tankersley contributed reporting.

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A White House memo released Thursday night announced that President Donald Trump had completed his course of therapy for COVID-19 "as prescribed by his team of physicians." White House physician Dr. Sean Conley cleared Trump to return to public life on Saturday, 10 days since his diagnosis.

"Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President's safe return to public engagements at that time," Conley said in the memo.

Because of this memo, the Trump campaign insisted the second presidential debate, scheduled for Oct. 15, should be held in person. Earlier on Thursday the Commission on Presidential Debates said they would hold a virtual debate out of coronavirus safety concerns.

"There is therefore no medical reason why the Commission on Presidential Debates should shift the debate to a virtual setting, postpone it, or otherwise alter it in any way. "

White House officials and Trump's physician have not said when the president's last negative test was.

Despite the request from Trump's team, the chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates told the Associated Press it is not reconsidering shifting the debate from virtual back to in-person.

The president has remained stable since returning to the White House on Monday after spending three days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Conley said.

"Overall he's responded extremely well to treatment, without evidence on examination of adverse therapeutic effects," he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines say patients are supposed to quarantine for at least 10 days after the onset of symptoms - in Trump's case, last Thursday.

Since the president's diagnosis, a growing list of White House officials have also tested positive for COVID-19, most recently senior aide Stephen Miller, who announced his diagnosis on Tuesday.

Trump's aides are working to satisfy his desire to get back out on the campaign trail as early as Monday in Pittsburgh, an aide said. The aide did not elaborate, saying only it would be an "event" and not a "rally" for the COVID-stricken president.
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The Trump campaign is exploring the prospect of an event on Monday in Pittsburgh, an aide said. The aide did not elaborate, saying only it would be an "event" and not a "rally" for the COVID-stricken president.

An unexpected moment went viral Wednesday when a fly landed on to of Pence's head for several minutes while he debated Harris.

Trump returned to the Oval Office on Wednesday, breaking quarantine by returning to the offices where the president and more than a dozen employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

The president released another video Thursday that focused on the military after saying in a video Wednesday that the "key" to his recovery from the virus was the experimental antibody cocktail by drugmaker Regeneron.

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Trump declines to say if he's tested negative for COVID

President Donald Trump repeatedly declined to answer Thursday whether he has tested negative for coronavirus, even as he floated the idea of returning to the campaign trail as early as Saturday.

Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity he would "probably" take a test on Friday.

There's no reason to test all the time, but they found very little infection or virus, if any," Trump told Fox. "I don't know that they found any, I didn't go into it greatly with the doctors."

The White House has repeatedly declined to say when Trump last tested negative for COVID-19 prior to his positive test result last Thursday that resulted in a three-night stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Trump aides have said they are working to schedule a campaign event as early as Monday, but Trump told Fox on Thursday he was considering rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania over the weekend.

- John Fritze

Trump says he's considering rallies this weekend

President Donald Trump said Thursday he may hold rallies this weekend in Florida and Pennsylvania, hours after his physicians said he would be cleared to return to the campaign trail on Saturday.

"I think I'm going to try doing a rally on Saturday night, probably in Florida on Saturday," the president told Fox News, breaking his answer at one point to clear his throat. "Pennsylvania the following night."

White House physician Sean Conley said Thursday the president had completed his course of therapy for COVID-19 "as prescribed by his team of physicians" and cleared the president to return to public life on Saturday, 10 days since his diagnosis.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines say patients are supposed to quarantine for at least 10 days after the onset of symptoms - in Trump's case, last Thursday.

Earlier on Thursday Trump said he would bow out of the second presidential debate, scheduled for Oct. 15, after the Commission on Presidential Debates said they would hold a virtual debate out of coronavirus safety concerns.

- John Fritze and Courtney Subramanian

Trump doesn't want remote debate

The next presidential debate has been moved to a virtual format, but President Donald Trump says he will not participate and has asked that the next two debates be delayed a week instead.

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Thursday that the Oct. 15 town hall debate (in which voters ask the questions) would be remote to "protect the health and safety of all involved" amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump's positive COVID-19 diagnosis.

While Trump said he wouldn't take part (he called the virtual debate a "joke"), the Biden campaign, however, said they would. But did not agree to delays.

"Donald Trump doesn't make the debate schedule; the Debate Commission does," said Kate Bedingfield, deputy campaign manager and communications director for the Biden campaign. "Trump's erratic behavior does not allow him to rewrite the calendar, and pick new dates of his choosing. We look forward to participating in the final debate, scheduled for October 22, which already is tied for the latest debate date in 40 years. Donald Trump can show up, or he can decline again. That's his choice."

The news comes after the vice presidential debate on Wednesday in Salt Lake City. The debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris was less chaotic than the presidential debate and candidates were separated by 12 feet with plexiglass shields.

Pence cancels Friday appearance in Indianapolis

Vice President Mike Pence has cancelled a Friday appearance in Indianapolis, where he planned to vote.

His office did not provide an explanation when asked why. His office said the trip would be rescheduled soon.

Pence spoke at a rally in Nevada for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign Thursday. He flew out from Nevada Thursday afternoon and landed just after 2 p.m. in Phoenix. He's scheduled to speak at a rally in the suburbs this evening.

Pence had been scheduled to leave Phoenix in the morning to fly into Indianapolis before returning to Washington D.C. Friday evening.

"Nobody's sick. There's no positive tests," Pence spokesman Devin O'Malley said. "The VP is planning on travelling on Saturday and Monday. We'll have more information on the vice president's schedule next week soon."
- Chris Sikich (Indianapolis Star) and John Fritze
President Donald Trump calls Sen. Kamala Harris 'this monster'

President Donald Trump referred to the Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris twice as a "monster" Thursday morning.

During a phone interview on Fox Business, Trump said, "This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way. This monster, she says, 'no no, there won't be fracking,' there won't be this. Everything she said is a lie."

Trump also called Harris "unlikeable".

The president's comments against came after Harris, the first Black and South Asian woman to be the vice presidential nominee of a major political party, debated Pence Wednesday night.

Meena Harris, the niece of the California Senator, said Trump "repeatedly called her 'this monster' without using her name. It's disgusting and racist. He wants you to be scared of her."
- Savannah Behrmann
McConnell said he hasn't visited White House because of lax COVID rules

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday said he hasn't visited the White House in two months because of what he saw as lax coronavirus practices.

"My impression was their approach to how to handle this (pandemic) was different from mine and what I insisted we do in the Senate, which was to wear a mask and practice social distancing,'' McConnell said during an appearance in Northern Kentucky.

McConnell said he maintains regular phone contact with Trump and that the president "seems perfectly fine.''

But McConnell said he doesn't have first-hand knowledge of the president's health condition because he hasn't visited the White House since Aug. 6. McConnell was not at the Sept. 26 event in the Rose Garden announcing Trump's Supreme Court nominee - which may have become a "superspreader" event.
- Randy Tucker (Cincinnati Enquirer) McConnell: Mitch McConnell says he hasn't visited White House since August because of lax COVID rules
Pelosi: No aid for airlines without a comprehensive COVID-19 stimulus

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she would not support a standalone relief bill for airlines without acting on a comprehensive COVID-19 relief package.

"I have been very open to having a standalone bill for the airlines or as part of a bigger bill," she said, but added, "there is no standalone bill without a bigger bill."

Negotiations on a comprehensive stimulus package collapsed earlier this week after President Donald Trump said he rejected Democrats' latest offer and would wait until after the election to restart negotiations. Since then, however, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, one of the lead White House representatives, and Pelosi have continued conversations about an airline relief bill. Airlines, which have been hammered by coronavirus-related drops in travel, have warned of mass furloughs and layoffs as their federal payroll supports expired.

Stock markets have been buoyed by the possibility of a standalone stimulus bill for airlines after Trump signaled his support on Twitter and in an interview on Fox Business on Thursday morning.
- Nicholas Wu
A relief package passed by House Democrats last week included relief for airlines, though the Republican-controlled Senate has declined to act on it. Democrats also tried to pass a separate airline relief bill last week under rules that would have required unanimous approval from lawmakers, though House Republicans blocked its passage.

Trump releases more videos from White House

Trump released two videos Thursday, the latest in a series, this time touting his efforts to expand a U.S. military that he asserted has "never been stronger" and attacking Biden.

Trump has not been seen in person since he returned from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday where doctors administered several drugs for coronavirus. Instead, he has issued a series of short videos on a near daily basis.

Thursday's message, shot on the South Lawn, sounded many of the same themes he has articulated on the campaign trail about his administration's military spending. It was posted minutes after Trump conducted a phone-in interview on Fox Business Network in which he announced he would not take part in the next debate after it was moved to a virtual format.

Trump posted another video hours later with a decidedly more political bent. He said of Biden, "he just talks," and said that Americans would have access to the same COVID-19 drugs he did at Walter Reed.

Trump said the video message was aimed at seniors, "my favorite people in the world," and he poked fun at his own age, 74.
- John Fritze
The videos, which started off as a display to the world that Trump was not incapacitated by his bout with the virus, have increasingly embraced the kind of rhetoric Trump used at his campaign rallies.

Who won the vice presidential debate? There's no 'winner' but here's what you missed

While there's no "winner" of the debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, it was much different than the presidential debate last week: Name calling and insults were largely absent and at one point, Pence congratulated Harris on making history.

But there were plenty of skirmishes between the two candidates who were separated by plexiglass barriers and seated 12 feet apart because of coronavirus precautions. Harris, in particular, chastised Pence for interrupting her several times.

Pence defended the administration's refusal to follow CDC guidelines, like mask wearing, at the White House event with Trump's Supreme Court pick, Amy Coney Barrett.

Harris dodged questions on expanding the Supreme Court.

Harris told Pence she would "not be lectured ... on what it means to enforce the laws of our country," when responding to a question about the Breonna Taylor case.

Pence congratulated Harris on making history as the first Black woman and first Asian American woman on a major party's presidential ticket

Harris and Pence had a sharp exchange over climate change. Pence charged that Biden would ban fracking, which Harris denied.

Among the highlights:

- Deirdre Shesgreen, Phillip M. Bailey and Caren Bohan

Trump, trailing by double digits: 'I don't believe the polls'

As new polls show Joe Biden building a double-digit lead over President Donald Trump, the president has a ready response: Rejection.

"I don't believe the polls," Trump told Fox Business Network on Thursday morning. "The polls are rigged just like the media is rigged."

Some new polls have given Biden leads of more than 10 percentage points in the week-and-half since the first Trump-Biden debate and the president's positive test for COVID-19. The Real Clear Politics average of recent polls put Biden at 51.6% and Trump at 41.9% - a difference of 9.7 percentage points.

Trump and aides are quick to point out that he trailed in the polls four years ago against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
- David Jackson
"We know that polling is notoriously wrong," campaign spokeswoman Erin Perrine said on Fox Business.

Trump says he won't take part in virtual debate

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would not take part in the next presidential debate on Oct. 15 after it was moved to a virtual format due to COVID-19 safety concerns.

"I'm not going to waste my time doing a virtual debate," he told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Thursday morning the next presidential debate would be remote to "protect the health and safety of all involved" amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump's positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
- Nicholas Wu
The town hall format will feature debate moderator Steve Scully, C-SPAN's Senior executive producer and political editor, with participants based in Miami, but former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will participate in "separate remote locations," the Commission said. Read more here.

Susan Page: Debates are designed to help voters

Susan Page believes debates are designed to help voters. To her, they aren't for the news media or the candidates. By that standard, last week's presidential debate didn't make for a particularly good viewing experience.

Page, USA TODAY's Washington Bureau chief, presided over Wednesday's vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City. Leading up to the debate, Page said she sought ways to create a different kind of conversation.

That task required a more aggressive moderation than she'd planned to allow equal speaking time for both candidates, and she had to cut a planned segment on immigration. Still, Page was hopeful the debate was useful for voters.

"I didn't get answers to all the questions I had hoped to get," she told USA TODAY Editor-In-Chief Nicole Carroll after the debate. "I think sometimes I got prepared speeches instead of spontaneous responses - that shouldn't be a surprise."
- Jordan Culver
An analysis from CNN reported Harris and Pence were given nearly identical speaking time, with the Democratic senator from California clocking in at 36 minutes and 24 seconds and the Republican vice president speaking for just three seconds more. Read more here.

Will Trump hold a rally on Monday?

Trump's aides are working to satisfy his desire to get back out on the campaign trail as soon as possible - perhaps early next week.
- David Jackson
The campaign is exploring the prospect of an event on Monday in Pittsburgh, an aide said. The aide did not elaborate, saying only it would be an "event" and not a "rally" for the COVID-stricken president.

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The Trump administration said it plans to investigate alleged discrimination against LGBTQ students following this summer's landmark Supreme Court rulings that said sexual orientation and gender identity are protected traits under existing civil rights law -- but only in certain circumstances, according to documents released by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights.

In updated guidance posted via a letter to various Connecticut schools, the Education Department said transgender students still can't play on school sports teams that correspond with their gender identity and instead should be assigned to teams that correspond with their biological gender at birth.

At the same time, in a separate case, the department said it agreed to investigate claims of discrimination based on sexual orientation where a student alleged "homophobic bigot[ry]" at her school.

Sunu Chandy, the legal director at the National Women's Law Center, said the two moves by the department are "totally at odds."

"Do we applaud that someone won't be discriminated against based on sexual orientation from participating in sports? Absolutely. But we cannot do that without saying this other decision that excludes transgender students, essentially, is -- it's so harmful and so offensive to us, as it would be to transgender students," Chandy said.

The department's shift comes shortly after the Supreme Court said that discrimination on the basis of sex, which is forbidden in the workplace under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, includes sexual orientation and gender identity. The Education Department said because the opinion was about discrimination in the workplace, it does not have authority over the Education Department's Title IX statute -- the law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools.

In one of the letters released last week, the department noted that the Supreme Court had "recognized the significant differences between workplaces and schools," citing previous Supreme Court rulings.

"You can't immediately just say, because the court has said no employment discrimination where sex now reaches certain aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity that leads to a particular outcome for bathrooms, locker rooms or sports teams," said Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at conservative-leaning think tank Heritage Foundation.

However, in one of two letters published by the department outlining the updated policy, acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said the ruling "guides OCR's understanding that discriminating against a person based on their homosexuality or identification as transgender generally involves discrimination on the basis of their biological sex."

An Education Department official said the new protections apply to complaints involving individuals being excluded from participation, denied the benefit of, or subjected to discrimination under an education program or activity.

It does not apply to situations where schools separate students by sex in situations like locker rooms and bathrooms, or sports teams, the official said.

Of transgender athletes, the Education Department's Richey said in one of the documents, "If the school offers separate-sex teams, the male student-athlete who identifies as female must play on the male team, just like any other male student-athlete," arguing that separating students for single-sex sports teams "must be based on biological sex."

Chase Strangio, the deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU's LGBT and HIV Project, said the Education Department is "taking away much more than they're giving," with the documents released.

"From the perspective of trans students, you can't claim to protect the community while also take the position, not only that trans people aren't protected, but that that that states and local governments are prohibited from protecting trans people," Strangio said, adding that the Education Department is "escalating" attacks on trans people.

"Transgender girls are girls. And we are for girls' rights," Chandy, of the National Women's Law Center, said.

Enforcing Title IX when it comes to transgender students, specifically athletes, has been moving through the U.S. court system and different federal agencies for several years, according to attorney Casey Pick, senior fellow for advocacy and government affairs for the Trevor Project, the country's largest crisis center for LGBTQ youth.

The Obama administration issued guidance on Title IX in 2016, saying transgender students could not be denied access to opportunities to participate in sports based on their gender identity, she said.

"Since then, there's been a measure of conflicts. The Trump administration, shortly after taking office, rescinded that guidance and various cases have been percolating through the court system," Pick told ABC News.

"These rulings not only come from the Supreme Court but from multiple federal courts all over the country. And it's not just limited to employment," she added.

Pick said she thinks the Supreme Court's ruling should extend beyond the workplace and should apply to the Education Department's Title IX policy. She disagrees with what she calls the Department of Education's "idiosyncratic interpretation" of the landmark Supreme Court ruling.

"The Education Department now says they're going to interpret Title IX as allowing them to investigate claims of discrimination based on a student's sexual orientation. But if you read the letters, it appears that they are doing so rather grudgingly and trying to read the Bostock decision as narrowly as possible," she said.

Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, said fighting for transgender rights under the Trump administration has been "incredibly frustrating."

"This administration refuses to take serious long-standing case logs that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination under our federal sex discrimination laws, particularly younger people," Warbelow said. "These rulings are not only coming from the Supreme Court, but they're also coming from multiple federal courts all over the country. And it's not just limited to employment."

Going forward, Warbelow said she expects to see a long legal battle as transgender allies continue to push for education protections for transgender students.

She said the Education Department "seems to hold the idea that simply because the Supreme Court didn't get to the issues of bathroom access, that somehow that means that trans kids are not entitled to protection in those circumstances." She said they could have a "dangerous" impact for LGBTQ youth who are struggling with their identities and searching for positive affirmation from adults.

"You can't sort of segregate out various areas of trans people's lives. Trans people are who they say they are," she said. "Trans girls are girls and trans boys are boys. You can't treat a child as a girl in some circumstances and a boy in other circumstances when that's not consistent with who they are. It's really outrageous and it's dangerous because it sets that child up for further discrimination, and potentially even violence."

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