See You in Court: Multiple news outlets report that President Trump today will name appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court.

  She couldn’t be more opposite.

  Barrett has a record of being against abortion rights and is hostile to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. The 48-year-old Barrett is a judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. 

  She was a clerk to one of the most conservative justices in recent history, the late Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, she is an “originalist” or “textualist” who looks strictly at the text of the Constitution or statute under question in a case and tries to apply its original intent to her decision. 

    Barrett briefly practiced law and then taught for 15 years at Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Indiana. She’s been a judge for three years.

   Barrett is a devout Roman Catholic and mother of seven. She is reported to be a member of a Catholic group called People of Praise, known for its rigid gender roles and lifelong loyalty oaths. Coral Anika Theill, a former member of a branch group in Corvallis, Oregon, told Newsweek that women are expected to be “absolutely obedient” to their husbands and the men in the group. According to Theill, those who aren’t are “shamed, shunned, humiliated.”

  The group does not reveal its members and Barrett has not said whether she is or is not one of them. Take it as possible but unconfirmed.

  Trump and the Republicans are pushing ahead in the face of popular opposition. An ABC News/Washington Post poll says 57 percent of Americans want the court appointment filled by the winner of the election.

Viral News: While promising a coronavirus vaccine by election day, President Trump and his administration are questioning the Food and Drug Administration’s tough standards for approving a vaccine. 

  In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his state will lift coronavirus restrictions for restaurants and many other businesses. “We’re not closing anything going forward,” the governor said in St. Petersburg.

  DeSantis, a supporter of President Trump who spoke at the president’s rally in Jacksonville on Thursday, said that he would sign an order allowing restaurants and many other businesses to operate at full capacity “with limited social distancing protocols.” He said, “We’re going to be able to host the Super Bowl in February.”

  Florida has had 13,915 Coronavirus deaths, 120 of them in the past 24 hours.

  In Massachusetts, two former administrators of a Massachusetts veterans’ home were indicted on charges of criminal neglect in the coronavirus deaths of at least 76 residents. Because of staffing shortages in late March, the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home jammed residents into closer quarters, mixing residents who had the virus with those who didn’t.

  This morning, 203,789 Americans are dead of the coronavirus, 962 in the last day. Deaths are up 22 percent over the past 14 days.

To Your Health: Like a city mayor replacing streets and sidewalks during the campaign season, President Trump just weeks before the election has promised a new healthcare plan, starting with a $200 gift card to buy prescription drugs for older Americans.

  He’s spent four years promising to dump Obamacare without a plan to replace it. 

  The drug discount cards would be sent to 33 million Medicare beneficiaries. “Nobody’s seen this before, these cards are incredible, the cards will be mailed out in coming weeks.” Trump said. “I will always take care of our wonderful senior citizens. Joe Biden won’t be doing this.”

  Trump calls it his “America First Health Plan.” It’s long on promise and short on specifics. He says it will include protections for pre-existing conditions, a cornerstone of Obamacare.

  Trump said, “My plan expands affordable insurance options, reduces the cost of prescription drugs, will end surprise medical billing, increases fairness through price transparency, streamlines bureaucracy, accelerates innovation, strongly protects Medicare and always protects patients with pre-existing conditions.”

  So far as anyone knows, there are no specifics or a bill to put before Congress.

The Bulletin Board: Ron Paul, the former Republican congressman and libertarian from Texas who ran for president three times, entered a hospital yesterday after he began slurring words while appearing on a livestream video. He’s the father of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican who has refused to require residents to wear masks, tested positive for the coronavirus. — As the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state at the Capitol, her trainer Bryant Johnson got down on the floor off the end of her coffin and did several pushups in her honor.

No, Seriously: Former Playboy model Karen McDougal filed a defamation suit against Fox Newsclaiming that  host Tucker  Carlson slandered her during a December 2018 broadcast of his show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

  Carlson had said McDougal extorted President Donald Trump “out of approximately $150,000 in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair,” the filing said.

   McDougal lost. A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network — their own lawyers — argued that no “reasonable viewer” takes the primetime host Tucker Carlson seriously.

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