WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 900 U.S. Secret Service employees tested positive for the coronavirus, according to government records obtained by a government watchdog group.

Secret Service records show that 881 people on the agency payroll were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 1, 2020 and March 9, 2021, according to documents obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington. More than 11% of Secret Service employees were infected.

CREW noted that the Trump administration took actions that risked exposure to Secret Service workers, but it could not verify a direct connection to possible infections because the identities of those infected remains private.

After President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19, he took a drive in his presidential vehicle as Secret Service personnel drove and protected him. The former president also held multiple large rallies and events, including the announcement of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, despite restrictions on public gatherings.

OOPS there goes another one ...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/rudy-giuliani-suspended-law/index.html

Trump wasn't last.
C-SPAN - Presidential historians survey 2021

Trump wasn't last.
C-SPAN - Presidential historians survey 2021

Sad. Very sad.
And for clarity, "sad very sad" is something DJT would say.

Trump wasn't last.
C-SPAN - Presidential historians survey 2021

Sad. Very sad.
And for clarity, "sad very sad" is something DJT would say.

Is that a non-last-place only by 'default' because noone has heard of those last three names?

(Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan.)


Stay safe folks!
Martin

Legal experts are, it’s fair to say, sceptical of Mr Trump’s chances here.

One problem: courts in the United States have repeatedly held that social media platforms are not state actors. One such judgment was issued just a couple of weeks ago.

“The First Amendment does not apply to non-governmental actors. Full stop,” said Steve Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas.

“The ‘state action’ doctrine is about as firmly embedded a principle of constitutional law as there is. To overturn it would have incredibly broad consequences – many of which the current Supreme Court would be loath to embrace.”

NBC legal analyst Barb McQuade, a professor at Michigan Law School, said “Trump and his lawyers need to read the first line of the First Amendment”, which specifies that “Congress shall make no law” restricting the freedom of speech.

Former federal and state prosecutor Elie Honig, now a CNN legal analyst, made the same point.

“The very first word of the First Amendment is ‘Congress’. That means the First Amendment applies to governmental actors, not private companies,” said Mr Honig.

Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe said Mr Trump “has the First Amendment argument backwards”.

“Facebook and Twitter themselves have a First Amendment right to decide what speech their platforms amplify – a right that includes excluding speakers who incite violence,” he said.

David Greene, a First Amendment professor at the University of South Florida, suggested the lawsuits would fail.

“All of these arguments have been raised, and have been rejected, in other cases. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they will lose this time. But lots of other cases, with frankly better facts, have lost,” said Prof Greene.