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Joe Biden supported capital punishment unvaryingly over his 36-year Senate career. He helped enact legislation that expanded the practice. As veep, he served a president who (on paper) backed the death penalty, and not only for homicide. Still, because of Biden, the current spate of federal death sentences consummated under President Trump will be the last for years at least. Now publicly against the death penalty, the president-elect has done a glaring turnabout, albeit in lockstep with America’s governing class. The total of all executions in 2020, state and federal, is 17—lower than any yearly sum in almost three decades,...

TAPPER: “I have to ask you, President Trump held a meeting on Friday in which he reportedly discussed with his disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn martial law and force new elections in states that Biden lost and discuss appointing Sidney Powell and issuing an executive order to seize voting machines. This is, needless to say, quite alarming and scary to a lot of people. What will Senate do to make sure this doesn’t happen?” ROMNEY: “It’s not going to happen. It’s going nowhere. It’s really sad in a lot of respects and embarrassing because the president could, right...

Bill Gates expressed support for shutting down bars and restaurants for up to six months and indicated lockdowns may continue all the way into 2022. The billionaire Microsoft founder made his sobering warning during an interview with CNN over the weekend. “Well, sadly, the next four to six months could be the worst of the epidemic,” he told anchor Jake Tapper in discussing lockdowns and his support for extreme restrictions such as stay-at-home orders issued by California Governor Gavin Newsom. “Bars and restaurants in most of the country will be closed as we go into this wave, and I think...