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Trump allies file emergency petition at Supreme Court Tribune Content Agency
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President-elect Joe Biden removes his face mask before delivering a Thanksgiving address at the Queen Theatre, Nov. 25, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Biden will ask Americans to wear masks for 100 days Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden said he would ask all Americans to wear a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus for the first 100 days of his administration as well as issue a “standing order� requiring face coverings in federal buildings and interstate transportation. In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Biden also said that he had spoken to Dr. Anthony Fauci and asked him to stay on as the government’s top infectious disease expert. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a role he’s held since the Reagan administration. But Biden suggested that Fauci would have an even bigger voice in his administration, advising the president directly. “I asked him to stay on the exact same role he’s had for the past several presidents, and I asked
him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the Covid team,� Biden said. He pointed out that his incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, had worked closely with Fauci during the Ebola crisis beginning in 2014. Biden said he would order mask use “where the federal government has authority.� And he said he would call for all Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his presidency. “Not forever, for 100 days,� he said. “And I think we’ll see a significant reduction� in infections. Biden’s preview of a more robust response to the coronavirus pandemic came as he spoke about the role of the president and vice president in setting a personal example – drawing an implicit contrast with President Donald Trump, who has often eschewed wearing a mask in public and mocked Biden for
wearing one. The White House has also announced that it would continue to host holiday parties this year in smaller groups, even as Covid-19 cases and deaths break single-day records. Biden said he would follow the lead of three of his predecessors – Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – who have volunteered to publicly get a Covid-19 vaccine to encourage others to do so. “I’d be happy to do that. When Dr. Fauci says we have a vaccine that is safe, that’s the moment I will stand before the public,� he said. “People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already the numbers are really staggeringly low. And it matters what a president and a vice president do,� Biden said. “And it’s important to communicate to the American people it’s safe. It’s safe to do this.�
Vallejo hires former police chief as interim deputy chief Daily Republic Staff
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VALLEJO — Former Vallejo Police Chief Joseph Kreins has been hired back by the city as the interim deputy chief. The position is in addition to the recent hiring of Deputy Chief Michael Kihmm, the city announced. Kreins served as the chief of police in Vallejo starting in October 2014, after having served as the interim chief
starting in 2012. He has also served as interim chief of police from 2014-2019 in Benicia, Suisun City, Winters, Novato and Clayton. He started his career with the Concord Kreins Police Department in 1974 and has also worked in Sausalito, where he served as the chief and later as the assistant city manager, the city reported. Kreins is currently a POST certified facili-
t ator/pr esenter for California law enforcement agencies in team building and strategic planning workshops. Benicia Police Chief Andrew Bidou succeeded Kreins as police chief in Vallejo and served until he retired in April 2019. Shawny Williams, the current police chief, took over the department in November 2019.
Police arrest SF man on high-speed evading allegation Todd R. Hansen thansen@dailyrepublic.net
FAIRFIELD — A San Francisco man led the California Highway Patrol on a high-speed chase that ended peacefully with his arrest on westbound Interstate 80 near the West Texas Street exit. Dustin Patton, 30, was booked into Solano County
jail on suspicion of evading a peace officer with disregard for the safety of the public – a felony – and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance, the booking log states. Bail was set at $25,000. He is scheduled to appear Friday in Solano County Superior Court. The CHP reported that Patton was observed
speeding on eastbound Suisun Valley Road when a CHP officer attempted to make the traffic stop. Instead, according to the CHP, Patton sped up. The incident occurred at approximately 1 p.m. and came to an end with the 1:20 p.m. arrest. A passenger in the car was released without any allegations.
WASHINGTON — Weeks after President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court should decide whether to throw out millions of ballots in what he dubbed a fraudulent election, and with state and federal courts rejecting nearly all his legal team’s lawsuits in multiple states, a case from Pennsylvania has limped meekly to the nation’s highest court. The emergency petition filed Thursday is no Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case about the disputed Florida recount that determined who won the state’s electoral votes and therefore the White House. The dispute about Pennsylvania’s election results could not by itself change the outcome of the presidential race. Instead, the appeal comes from Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Mike
Kelly and other Trump allies, in a lawsuit they filed after the election to challenge a 2019 state law that allowed voters to cast mail-in ballots for any reason. Election experts have called the lawsuit, which seeks to throw out all mail-in ballots in the state in the 2020 election, ridiculous. They panned the chances that the Supreme Court would agree to hear it. Election law expert Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, wrote about it with this title: “Perhaps the Dumbest Argument Ever Made in Emergency Petition to the Supreme Court Appears in Pennsylvania Election Case.� On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the lawsuit in a three-page ruling, essentially because it was filed too late. The state’s
mail-in voting law had been in place for more than a year at that point, and had already been used in the June primary elections and November general elections. The court pointed out that the Republicans also sought an outcome – invalidating all mail-in ballots from the 2020 election or directing the state legislature to appoint its own slate of presidential electors – that would “result in the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters.� Hasen wrote that the emergency petition to the Supreme Court now argues that the state legislature failed to follow the state constitution when it created the mail-in ballot law, and that somehow violates the U.S. Constitution. The petition then points to part of the U.S. Constitution that gives state legislatures the power to set election rules.
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