Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday night set the battle lines for how the Supreme Court should consider post-election lawsuits that could determine the outcome of the presidential race. As the court rejected a Democratic attempt to allow mail-in votes, postmarked by Election Day, to be received up to six days after the election in Wisconsin, Kavanaugh also suggested that state courts may not have the last word in interpreting state election rules. "Under the U.S. Constitution, the state courts do not have a blank check to rewrite state election laws for federal elections," Kavanaugh wrote in a footnote of his concurring opinion. Kavanaugh's language overall mirrors President Donald Trump's rhetoric about calling a winner on election night. States that require mail-in ballots to be returned by the Election Day, Kavanaugh wrote in his concurring opinion, "want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after Election Day and potentially flip the results of an election. " But those announcements are in no way official: They are projections made by national broadcast networks and wire services, based on how partial results compare to historical outcomes - not by the states themselves, which typically take weeks before certifying elections. Republican state legislatures in some states, including Pennsylvania, have blocked efforts to speed up the counting of mail-in ballots on election night. In Pennsylvania, the GOP-led legislature opposed changing policies to allow clerks to begin processing absentee ballots - which have been cast by more Democrats than Republicans there - before November 3. That means they'll have to open them and verify voters' eligibility on the day of the election, likely resulting in a slower-than-usual count that steadily builds in Democrats' favor. Citing Bush v. Gore Kavanaugh referenced Bush v. Gore, the court's opinion that decided the 2000 election along partisan and ideological lines and is still so controversial that it is rarely cited as precedent. He is one of three current justices - along with John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett - who worked on Bush's side during the legal fight at the time. Kavanaugh picked up on the reasoning of then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist in a concurrence that only garnered the votes of two other justices - the late Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas. "The text of Article II means that the 'clearly expressed intent of the legislature must prevail' and that a state court may not depart from the state election code enacted by the legislature," Kavanaugh wrote. In the Wisconsin case Monday, Kavanaugh wrote to explain why he agreed with the court's 5-3 majority to block a federal district court's ruling that would have extended the deadline for the receipt of absentee ballots in Wisconsin amidst the pandemic. Kavanaugh said he thought the district court changed the state's rules too close to an election and that courts should defer to state legislatures to address health concerns about Covid-19. He said he thought that Wisconsin's deadline is the same as that of several other states and is "reasonable given the all the circumstances." But then he shifted to the role state courts should play. The court has yet to resolve how far can state courts go to change election rules put in place by state legislatures. The court deadlocked on that issue in a recent 4-4 split out of Pennsylvania without explanation. CNN election law expert Rick Hasen said Kavanaugh's writing is a major clue. "The conservatives on the court are going to look very skeptically at any state court rulings that might extend deadlines or change rules for recounts or other post-election activity," Hasen said. He noted that the court had split 4-4 on that issue last week and that Barrett could make a difference. Barrett "could side with conservatives in these politically charged cases if she does not recuse herself from participating in them," he added. Kavanaugh's concurrence came down just before Barrett appeared at the White House to be sworn in as Trump's third nominee. To many, her addition to the court will mark a rightward shift. Roberts, who since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has at times served as a swing vote, could well be outflanked by the new conservative wing. That could mean, to some, that Kavanaugh serves as the new swing vote at times.

There are interesting things about these animals beyond the obvious, like the fun facts that we show you below. We have collected data that you probably did not know about rabbits. Curiosities about rabbits The scientific name of the rabbit is “Oryctolagus”, the term orycto comes from the Greek ορυκτός (oriktós, '[ex] dug', 'unearthed') and this from ορύσσειν (orýssein, 'dig'), referring to the characteristic excavating customs of this species in the wild, while the Greek term λαγός (lakes) strictly means 'hare'. Rabbits and hares are lagomorphs, an order belonging to placental mammals. Lagomorphs were originally classified as rodents, but in 1912 the distinction was made. They are 100% herbivores. They have a diet of grasses, plants, fruits, and vegetables. The rabbit cannot vomit, its digestive system does not allow it. Your teeth never stop growing. Teeth naturally fall short from wear and tear when chewing. To mark their territory, they rub their chin (where they have their olfactory glands) on almost every surface around them, they could even rub a person. On average they live 10 years, although in some cases the quality of life depends on each species. The oldest rabbit in the world lived 17 years, his name was Do and he was of the Jersey Wooly breed. Smart animal It is an intelligent animal, in the same way as the dog, a domestic rabbit can go when called by its name, it can learn to sit and do simple tricks. Common rabbits are 33 to 50 cm long. They weigh between 1.5 and 2.5 kg, however the length and weight can vary by species. Their long ears can measure up to 8 centimeters and help them regulate body temperature. A litter of rabbits is usually 4 to 12 young. Gestation lasts 30 days. Rabbits are born with their eyes closed and without hair. They get bored easily when they don't have toys or things to entertain themselves with or if they don't get along with other rabbits. They are social animals, as we already mentioned, they need to interact with other rabbits and (in the case of domestic rabbits) to interact with humans. Twilight animals Rabbits are twilight animals, they are most active at dawn and dusk. They have almost 360 degree vision, they can see what is around and behind them, but they cannot see straight ahead. Rabbits are remarkably hygienic. Like cats, they stay clean throughout the day by licking their fur and paws. They can purr when they are happy. On average, they usually sleep between 6 to 8 hours every day. If they are uncomfortable with their surroundings, rabbits sleep with their eyes open to be alert. Rabbits can jump 1 meter in height and 3 meters in length. The largest rabbit in the world is Darius, he is about 1.20 meters tall and weighs 22 kilos. Darius belongs to the Continental Giant race. The smallest breed is the pygmy rabbit. An adult rabbit can weigh between 375 and 500 grams and be 23.5 to 30 cm long.

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As some indoor gyms and fitness spaces reopen, and summer weather allows more outdoor exercise, the topic of wearing protective face masks during exercise continues to get folks perspiring. To mask or not to mask, when exercising outside? And if I want to go back to the gym, many of which now require face coverings, how can I find one that doesn’t leave me extra-sweaty, or inhibit my breathing? “For the purpose of protecting others in case you are a carrier, wearing masks in public should be followed based on public health need, whether you are exercising or not,” says Suzanne Lukovics, physical therapy director at Austin, Texas-based Georgetown Living Home Health. While wearing masks outdoors during exercise isn't mandated in most states, the risks of transmission during exercise just aren't known yet, she says - so, like much of the public, Lukovics relies on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health organizations. “There is some talk about droplets suspended in air for a period of time, but we have to remember that exposure to Covid-19 seems highly tied to‘ viral load ’as well,” she says. “So things like being exposed to air droplets with Covid-19 would be less problematic if you were, say, jogging past a place where droplets were, versus working out hard for 45 minutes next to a person who may be carrying Covid-19 and is talking loudly, coughing or breathing hard during their workout next to you. " For the record, Lukovics says she would wear a mask while jogging 3 miles outdoors, with a running buddy. And masks may indeed affect one’s ease of breathing, the physical therapist says. "With all exercise, your body’s demand for oxygen increases to support your muscles." But how that affects a person’s breathing pace is relative. “An elderly person who has never exercised will be winded with very little activity, even without a mask,” she says. "Anyone who wears a mask during exercise, regardless of intensity, will likely feel more breathless than they did without a face covering - even if it's a lightweight, disposable mask." However, Lukovics emphasizes, it's worth it. “Our amazing bodies will accommodate over time and we will seem less breathless with each encounter of using a mask while exercising,” she says. "If we have the choice to prevent the spread, and‘ endure ’a bit of a harder workout for our lungs, we should do it for the greater long-term good." Plus, wearing a mask, regardless of its protective efficacy, Lukovics says, “can provide a visual cue to others that‘ I care about you, and am willing to withstand some discomfort ’during this unprecedented time. And when we are finally able to safely exercise maskless again, our workouts will seem easier for a change! ” If you're looking for the most breathable mask, Lukovics says, "Cotton is preferable, mainly for absorbing moisture / sweat." She says multiple layers may be more protective, but will also impact breathability. To address those challenges, several fitness brands have launched protective face masks specifically for whatever workout and fitness game you've got going on, and we rounded up a few of our favorites. Don’t forget that if you’re sweating regularly in your mask, it’s important to properly wash it after every use.

Dave Richards arrived at his polling place before dawn, carrying a blue lawn chair and a giant bottle of water. It was about 6 a.m. on October 12 - the first day of early voting in Georgia - and the business consultant was ready for a long wait in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna. After three hours in line, Richards, 51, voted in what he called the most crucial election of his lifetime. "This election is more important than the 2008 one for Barack Obama. That 2008 one was for change and making history. This election is for saving the US," Richards said, citing concerns about racial justice and suppression of Black voters. "The racial divide that is going on, we need someone who is going to be a leader for everyone, not just their base." Across the country, Black voters are turning out in huge numbers. The stakes this year are especially high, they say, and nothing less than their health and safety is on the ballot. In interviews with CNN, they said they're worried about racial injustice and police brutality, they feel devalued by a President who has hesitated to condemn White supremacy and they fear losing health benefits if the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act. Many said this feels like the most important choice of their lifetimes. During a raging pandemic that has killed more than 223,000 Americans and ravaged Black communities, many Black voters could have mailed in their ballots. But after recent headlines about postal workers dumping undelivered mail and President Donald Trump's debunked claims questioning the integrity of mail-in ballots, many don't trust that process. "The pandemic did not scare me," Richards said. "The way that 45 (Trump) was talking about mail-in voting and lying about it, I wanted to do it (vote) in person." Many Black voters say they don't trust Trump So far this fall, African American voters are rushing to the polls at much higher rates than they did four years ago, when Hillary Clinton was on the ballot. By Tuesday, more than 601,000 Black Americans had voted early in Georgia compared with about 286,240 two weeks before the 2016 election. In Maryland, about 192,775 had voted compared with 18,430. And California had over 303,145 - up from more than 106,360 two weeks before the election four years ago. That's according to Catalist, a data company that provides analytics to Democrats, academics and progressive advocacy organizations. Keith Green, 65, went to the polls last week in Overland Park, Kansas, to vote in person - for several reasons. "We have a racist President who lies too much," he said. "He keeps on saying he doesn't trust the Democrats. Well after everything that has gone on with the ballots, I don't trust the Republicans." Trump has repeatedly said he's done more for African Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln. As evidence, he has cited low unemployment among African Americans, criminal justice reforms and increased federal funding for historically Black colleges and universities. Some prominent Black Republicans, including Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Jay Cameron, have sung his praises. But most Black people aren't convinced. Gallup polling over the summer found that 87% of Black Americans disapproved of his job as President. Green said the Trump administration has left him worried about the future for his daughter and his two grandchildren. He believes Trump has emboldened White supremacists and set the nation backwards on the path for civil rights and equality. "The last four years have been so bad," he said. "We can't stand four more years of that." Other concerns include health care and the makeup of the courts Wilburn Wilkins, 61, woke up early on October 7, put on two masks and headed to a voting center in Joliet, Illinois, with his wife. Although the retiree has pre-existing conditions, I wanted to vote in person. "We have a President who is totally tearing apart from our whole democratic Constitution," Wilkins told CNN. "Many people are dying because he is ignoring the Covid pandemic, ignoring the fact that people are unemployed, need financial resources. We need a change." Like Green, he believes the White House's decisions have undermined Black people and other minorities. "The nomination of a conservative to the Supreme Court, stacking of lower courts in order to have cronies to carry out conservative ideas, most likely will affect Black and Brown people," Wilkins said. "They'll affect things such as civil rights, Obamacare - all of these things have the potential to negatively impact minorities." There's a lot at stake in this election, said playwright and composer Nolan Williams Jr., 51, who lives in Washington, DC, and plans to vote in person on Election Day. Williams has composed an anthem, "I Have a Right to Vote," to raise awareness of voter suppression and motivate Black people to cast their ballots. It features original "Hamilton" cast member Christopher Jackson, entertainer Billy Porter and others reciting the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the late Rep. John Lewis and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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The last president facing re-election troubles like Donald Trump's was Jimmy Carter in 1980. Injured by recession and impotent against a national crisis, Carter lost big. To describe the current incumbent's predicament, substitute Trump's botched coronavirus response for Carter's inability to free American hostages seized by Iran. Then look at the numbers. Today, Trump's national polling deficit of around 10 percentage points matches Carter's po[CENSORED]r vote deficit against Ronald Reagan -- who won a 44-state landslide while fellow Republicans seized control of the Senate. View Trump and Biden head-to-head polling Yet, just over a week from Election Day, few political analysts are prepared to say that points toward overwhelming defeat for Trump and his party on November 3, for three reasons. Trump's base keeps him afloat The first is the sturdiness of the narrow Trump political base, centered on less-educated, rural, evangelical and blue-collar Whites. Elected in 2016 with just 46.1% of the vote, the President has remained unpo[CENSORED]r overall throughout his term. But despite the pandemic, economic downtown, racial unrest, and Trump's erratic and provocative behavior, his loyal supporters have kept his job approval from dipping much below the 42.5% floor of late last week in the fivethirtyeight.com polling average. "Trump is the worst President ever - I can't imagine historians will spend more than 10 minutes debating that," says Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. But "he really has developed a rock-solid base." That's largely because present-day polarization has left the GOP far more ideologically homogenous than Carter-era Democrats were. Vestigial Democratic ties in the nation's most conservative region helped the former Georgia governor sweep the South in his 1976 victory. His troubled tenure collapsed that conservative support, cutting his first-year job approval of 75% in half by the fall of 1980. Carter ended up slightly outpacing his job approval to draw 41% of the po[CENSORED]r vote. Polarization and demographics The second reason: the combination of polarization and demographic change has left individual states more politically distinct from one another. In 2000, George W. Bush won the barest of electoral victories while losing the po[CENSORED]r vote to Al Gore by half a percentage point. In 2016, Trump captured a larger share of electoral votes while suffering a larger two-point defeat in the po[CENSORED]r vote for Hillary Clinton. This year, the contours of individual battlegrounds mean Trump would have a fighting chance for re-election even if he loses the po[CENSORED]r vote by twice that much. The 2018 mid-term elections, when antipathy toward Trump and his policies gave Democrats a clear overall edge, proved the point. Democrats surged nationally to recapture control of the House. But they fell short in some critical battleground races for governor and Senate. "Even an eight-point national lead wasn't enough for Democrats to flip Ohio or Iowa," notes Amy Walter, national editor of the Cook Political Report. "It wasn't enough to hold onto Florida." Today Trump runs significantly better in the electorally decisive states than he does nationally. The difference between Biden sweeping all of them, or barely enough to win, could end up very thin. Moreover, narrow Trump victories in more conservative-leaning battlegrounds such as Georgia, Iowa and North Carolina could limit his party's losses in Senate races. In 2016, every Senate contest went to the party of the presidential candidate carrying the state. In any case, no one believes Democrats can match the 12-seat Senate gain that Reagan fueled for Republicans in 1980. The 2016 effect The third reason analysts shrink from predictions of a blowout for Democratic nominee Joe Biden is simple skittishness. Their failure to anticipate Trump's 2016 victory makes them reluctant to trust their instincts and polling evidence now. "Everybody has PTSD from four years ago," Sabato says. National 2016 polls actually ended up close to the mark. But some surveys in key battlegrounds underestimated the size of the working-class electorate. Those errors, combined with Trump's strong finish among late-deciding voters, produced his Election Day shocker. Polls could be off again this time. Of course, there's no guarantee that errors would underestimate Trump's support now; in President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, polls underestimated his margin of victory in key states. The pandemic is this year's big X-factor One uniquely hard-to-fathom variable is the effect of the pandemic on voting patterns. The huge volume of ballots already cast by mail and in-person early voting point toward mammoth turnout. In 2018, the pattern of turnout increases favored Democrats. No one can be sure how much of today's early surge reflects fear of catching the virus at crowded Election Day polling places, as opposed to disproportionate enthusiasm for either side. Yet there are suggestions in late-campaign polling that Trump could face something resembling a Carter-sized defeat after all. Dave Wasserman, a leading expert on House races, says surveys in competitive districts show a consistent swing of eight to 10 percentage points away from Trump. Wasserman has also calculated what the national standing of Biden and Trump among key demographic groups, if it held across battleground states, would imply for the outcome. That calculation shows Biden, like Reagan 40 years ago, winning more than 400 electoral votes.

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