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little capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19 in short is a men as in work settings. the proof is all around us. since the disease s on set most american americans have seen workplaces transformed. so the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in work places did what congress commanded it to do. it took action to address covid s continuing threat in those spaces. observera, the occupational safety and health excuse me the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard requiring either vaccination or masking and testing to protect american workers. the standard falls within the core of the agency s mission, to protect employees from grave danger that comes from new hazards or exposure to harmful agents. osha estimates and there is no ground for disputing that the standard they proposed would save more than 6500 lives and prevent over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today the kwor ....
justices elena kagan, sonia sotomayor, and stephen breyer, which did block the osha safety rule for employers requiring workers to be vaccinated or get regularly tested. r now in a separate ruling today, the court did leave in place thp vaccine requirement for people working in a health care setting. but if you don t work in a diin health care setting, if you re stacking i shelves or on the factory floor working in a big open-plan cubicle and your workplace doesn t want to protect you from a covid-rich environment, well, the supreme court just blocked the biden administration from helping you. the supreme court just blocked n the biden administration from being allowed to require that your workplace be made more safe. it s not necessarily an unexpected ruling given how right wing the supreme court is right now and how weird and scientifically uninformed the conservative justices questions were during the oral arguments, but now it is done. we will have more on that ahea ....
very visible surrogate and enforcer for trump, after mr. cohen pled guilty to, among other things, helping cover up illegal campaign contributions for his presidential campaign actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn t special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have been very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he had only been home a couple of weeks, they d send him right back to prison. sure he d been released ....
actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn t special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have been very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he had only been home a couple of weeks, they d send him right back to prison. sure he d been released because of covid like other prisoners, told him he would wear ankle monitor and serve out the rest of his sentence at home but a few weeks into it, changed their minds, and with ....
not even an ex-president claiming executive privilege is above the law. following the committee s vote, a vote will be put to the full house floor to refer steve bannon to the justice department for criminal contempt and though joe biden has signalled his full support for prosecution of bannon, the justice department will have discretion over what happen next and how bannon will be held accountable for refusing to cooperate. overnight, the committee put out a report detailing the legal case against steve bannon. and underscoring his role in the events leading up to the january 7 insurrection. from that report, quote, in short, bannon appears to have played a multifaceted role in the events of january 6. the american people are entitled to his his testimony. the select committee expects such testimony will be directly relevant to its report and its recommend days for legislative and other action. they add that mr. bannon s reported basis for noncompliance is without meri ....