The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive Summary

By Jordan Candler ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/72272-monday-executive-summary-2020-07-20

Above the Fold

  • “A federal judge on Friday ordered the government to revive the DACA program as it existed before President Trump tried to phase it out in 2017, which means opening it up to brand new applications,” The Washington Times reports1. “That’s a key issue that had remained in limbo after last month’s Supreme Court ruling, which found the Trump phaseout cut too many corners. … [The order] also renews an indirect pathway to citizenship, known as Advance Parole, that some DACA applicants had used to gain green cards.” However, the Times adds, “President Trump has hinted he will attempt another phaseout of DACA, this time following all the procedures the courts said he skipped last time. But he has also sent other signals, including a confusion claim that he will sign something granting DACA recipients a direct pathway to citizenship.” Stay tuned.

  • The Federalist’s Tristan Justice writes: “Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee released new documents Friday further undercutting the ‘reliability’ of the already discredited Democrat-funded Chrstopher Steele dossier and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) warrants that were approved by deep-state operatives conducting illegal surveillance against officials working for the Trump campaign. The pair of documents reveal more evidence that the FBI was aware of the dossier’s credibility issues in early 2017 yet proceeded with its unlawful surveillance anyway under the authority of warrants that the FISA court ruled illegitimate earlier this year.” Read all about this witch-hunt chicanery2.

Government & Politics

  • I’m the boss: AOC-backed Jamaal Bowman defeats powerful Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel in New York primary (Fox News3)

  • “I am tolerating chemotherapy well”: 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg battling cancer again (USA Today4)

  • Lawmakers are far apart on a new coronavirus relief bill. The sticking points are direct payments, liability reform, aid for state and local governments, school reopenings, and small-business relief. (NPR5)

  • Trump expediently demands payroll tax cut while GOP eyes benefit cuts for unemployed (The Washington Post6)

  • Civil rights pioneer and Atlanta congressman John Lewis dies of pancreatic cancer (Reuters7)

National Security

  • Pentagon bans Confederate flag in a sly way to avoid Trump’s wrath (AP8)

  • Iran executes man convicted of giving information about terrorist Qassem Soleimani to the U.S. (Time9)

  • China expands its amphibious forces in challenge to U.S. supremacy beyond Asia (Reuters10)

The Latest on COVID-19

  • CDC test kits generate 30% false positive and 20% false negative results, peer-reviewed findings confirm (Business Wire11)

  • Most cases in New York City in March traced to Europe (UPI12)

  • Synairgen drug shows lower risk of severe cases (Reuters13)

  • Cholesterol-lowering drug Fenofibrate (Tricor) is providing a glimmer of hope (UK Daily Mail14)

Business & Economy

  • “Strike for Black Lives”: Tens of thousands to walk off job today to protest nonexistent “systemic racism” (AP15)

  • Federal Trade Commission is considering deposing top Facebook executives in antitrust probe (Reuters16)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

  • Lawlessness-enabling Portland mayor accuses Trump of “absolute abuse” of federal law enforcement, demands officers leave as city’s nightly violence continues (National Review17)

  • Seattle rioters damage and loot stores while injuring 12 police officers (Fox News18)

  • University of Connecticut student government leaders resign because they’re white (The College Fix19)

  • Virginia mandates slavery lessons for kindergarteners (The Washington Free Beacon20)

  • Following in the footsteps21 of United Teachers Los Angeles, North Carolina teachers union demands universal healthcare and welfare for illegal immigrants to reopen schools (The Washington Free Beacon22)

Culture & Heartland

  • Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D) implicated in massive bribery scandal (The Blaze23)

  • Bubba Wallace booed at NASCAR race as Confederate flags fly (Washington Examiner24)

  • Less than 30% of Americans say Redskins should change their name (The Federalist25)

  • Legally armed driver kills gunman to stop fatal shooting spree in Indiana (Fox News26)

  • Eleven incidents in which lawful gun owners made a difference (The Daily Signal27)

Other Notables

  • The family that owns The New York Times were slaveholders (New York Post28)

  • Nearly 50% of Americans believe mail-in voting is vulnerable to significant levels of fraud. The other 50% is delusional. (The Daily Caller29)

  • GOP gallery of nightmares: 10 policies Biden and Democrats would ram through after axing filibuster (Washington Examiner30)

  • Vandalizing American history: A list of 64 toppled, defaced, or removed statues (The Daily Signal31)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: Dismantling student-loan program best path to fight leftist indoctrination on campus (The Daily Signal32)

  • Policy: The science is very clear: Schools should reopen this fall (Issues & Insights33)

  • Satire: Nike makes sweatshop workers work overtime to stitch “Equality” on NBA jerseys (Genesius Times34)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit In Our Sights35.

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