Cambridge City Council to discuss whether to suspend indoor dining again
Restaurant owners are speaking out against the impending decision.
When Cambridge City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday, it will discuss whether to once again close down indoor dining in an effort to curb rising COVID-19 cases.
According to the meeting’s agenda, city manager Louis A. DePasquale will “confer with the Metro Mayor’s Association to close indoor dining, gyms, casinos, and other non-essential indoor activities as soon as possible,” while also working with relevant city departments to organize small business and restaurant relief to “assist during this second shutdown and our efforts to stop community spread of COVID-19 and keep schools open.”
U.S. judge calls Trump claim challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'
By Jan Wolfe and Tom Hals
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit critical to President Donald Trump's long-shot bid to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, calling his legal claim a "Frankenstein's Monster."
The Trump campaign had sought to prevent state officials from certifying the results of the election in the state.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, described the case as "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations."
Brann said that he "has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens."
The lawsuit before Brann was filed on Nov. 9 and had alleged inconsistent treatment by county election officials of mail-in ballots. Some counties notified voters that they could fix minor defects such as missing "secrecy envelopes" while others did not.
"This claim, like Frankenstein's Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together," wrote Brann.
Brann, nominated by former President Barack Obama, is a Republican and, according to his biography, a member of the Federalist Society, a group of conservative and libertarian lawyers, law students and scholars.
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement he was disappointed with the ruling and will appeal. "Today’s decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court," he said.
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt the Trump campaign yet another legal loss, ruling that mail-in ballots cast in the state’s election can be counted even if a voter failed to completely fill out the envelope.
- The ruling comes on the heels of a federal judge’s decision in the state that dismissed the campaign’s request to block certification of votes expected to confirm a victory there for President-elect Joe Biden.
- President Donald Trump’s campaign has consistently lost or withdrawn court cases that have sought to reverse votes for Biden. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/23/trump-loses-pennsylvania-ballot-lawsuit-seeking-to-block-biden-win.html
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