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TRUMP PICK FOR COURT OPENS DASH TO VOTE

Judge Amy Coney Barrett before President Trump announced her as his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday at the White House.
A Quiet Retreat Court Tilt Will Test Biden’s Appetite for Hardball
From ‘Defund’ This article is by Matt Flegen- probability,”
In Minneapolis Glueck.
heimer, Alexander Burns and Katie
By ASTEAD W. HERNDON
MINNEAPOLIS — Over three
months ago, a majority of the Min-
neapolis City Council pledged to
defund the city’s Police Depart-
ment, making a powerful state-
ment that reverberated across the
country. It shook up Capitol Hill
and the presidential race, shocked
residents, delighted activists and
changed the trajectory of efforts
to overhaul the police during a
crucial window of tumult and po-
litical opportunity.
Now some council members
would like a do-over.
Councilor Andrew Johnson, one
of the nine members who sup-
ported the pledge in June, said in
an interview that he meant the
words “in spirit,” not by the letter.
Another councilor, Phillipe Cun-
ningham, said that the language
in the pledge was “up for interpre-
tation” and that even among coun-
cil members soon after the prom-
ise was made, “it was very clear
that most of us had interpreted
that language differently.” Lisa
Bender, the council president,
paused for 16 seconds when asked
if the council’s statement had led
to uncertainty at a pivotal mo-
ment for the city.
“I think our pledge created con-
fusion in the community and in
our wards,” she said.
The regrets formalize a retreat
that has quietly played out in Min-
neapolis in the months since
George Floyd was killed by the po-
lice and the ensuing national up-
roar over the treatment of Black
Americans by law enforcement
and the country at large. After a
summer that challenged society’s
commitment to racial equality and
raised the prospect of sweeping
political change, a cool autumn re-
ality is settling in.
National polls show decreasing
support for Black Lives Matter
since a sea change of good will in
June. In Minneapolis, the most
far-reaching policy efforts meant
to address police violence have all
but collapsed.
In interviews this month, about
two dozen elected officials, pro-
testers and community leaders
described how the City Council
members’ pledge to “end policing
as we know it” — a mantra to meet
the city’s pain — became a case
study in how quickly political
winds can shift, and what happens
Continued on Page 24
crowd.
Mr. Biden told the Supreme Court primed to coun-
He was half right.
Nearly three decades later, the issues.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. was trying
to demonstrate the lasting power
of the federal judiciary. So he did
the math.
Addressing a Michigan law
school audience in April 1991, Mr.
THE LONG RUN
A Conflicted Combatant
Biden, then a senator, said that if
trends in life expectancy held, a
justice freshly confirmed around
that time would “be making land-
mark decisions in the year 2020.”
“I’ll be dead and gone, in all
The number of available single-family homes in Winhall and Stratton, Vt., dropped to 29 from 129.
City Folks Flee the Virus, and the Bears Rejoice
By ELLEN BARRY
WINHALL, Vt. — From his post
at the town dump, Scott Bushee
spent the summer observing his
new neighbors, transplants who
pulled into his compound with
heads full of rustic fantasy and li-
cense plates from New York and
New Jersey.
Mr. Bushee is one of the half-
dozen or so people who run the
town of Winhall, with a year-
round population, before Covid-19,
teract his policy aims on health
care, abortion and other defining
man whom the Senate confirmed
that year, Justice Clarence Thom-
as, is still rendering decisions —
the eldest jurist, if President
Trump has his way, of a soon-to-be
6-to-3 conservative majority.
But Mr. Biden is indeed alive,
left to consider what the court’s
emerging tilt would mean for the
Democratic agenda if he wins the
White House — and for his own at-
tachment to the Capitol’s bygone
harmony and mores.
After a half-century in public
life, with a lead role in several in-
delible confirmation dramas
through the years, Mr. Biden
could, if elected, be saddled with a
of 769. He is a cranky dude. That is
his brand.
At the entrance to his com-
pound, above the sign that warns
his fellow residents that they can-
not enter after 3:50 NO EXCEP-
TION, he has affixed a demented-
looking baby doll, blank-eyed and
with one hand replaced by a plas-
tic fork.
Despite this clear warning, this
summer’s population explosion
has tried his last nerve, as he ex-
plained to one flatlander after an-
other how things are done in Ver-
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Many Democrats now believe
that adding seats to the court is
the urgent remedy, an extraordi-
nary step that has not been seri-
ously contemplated since the ad-
ministration of Franklin D. Roose-
velt. They argue that the court’s
legitimacy has already eroded
amid the Republican confirmation
maneuvers of the last four years.
Yet for Mr. Biden, a proud man
of the Senate, such an effort would
amount to the sort of norm-razing
exercise that might strike him as
an escalation too many.
“My inclination is to think that
he would just see that as making it
Continued on Page 20
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
mont. Yes, the dump attendant, a
heavily bearded man named Jody,
carries a firearm. And no, you can-
not mix your magazines with your
cans and bottles.
“Now you’ve got to deal with
Vermonters,” he said. “They will
tell you straight up. I try to do it as
politely as I can, but if you push
the envelope, things are going to
go sideways. I’m sure that they’re
looking at Jody and I and saying,
‘Oh my God, I’ve landed in Rus-
sia.’”
Continued on Page 6
Solidly Conservative For Barrett, Partisan
Record on Rulings Battle Awaits
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — Judge Amy
Coney Barrett, President Trump’s
pick for the Supreme Court, has
compiled an almost uniformly
conservative voting record in
cases touching on abortion, gun
rights, discrimination and immi-
gration. If she is confirmed, she
would move the court slightly but
firmly to the right, making com-
promise less likely and putting at
risk the right to abortion estab-
lished in Roe v. Wade.
Judge Barrett’s judicial opin-
ions, based on a substantial sam-
ple of the hundreds of cases that
she has considered in her three
years on the federal appeals court
in Chicago, are marked by care,
clarity and a commitment to the
interpretive methods used by Jus-
tice Antonin Scalia, the giant of
conservative jurisprudence for
whom she worked as a law clerk
from 1998 to 1999.
But while Justice Scalia’s meth-
ods occasionally drove him to lib-
eral results, notably in cases on
flag burning and the role of juries
in criminal cases, Judge Barrett
could be a different sort of justice.
“There may be fewer surprises
from someone like her than there
were from Justice Scalia,” said
Brian T. Fitzpatrick, a former law
clerk to the justice and a law pro-
fessor at Vanderbilt University.
“She is sympathetic to Justice
Scalia’s methods, but I don’t get
the sense that she is going to be a
philosophical leader on how those
methods should be executed.”
One area in which almost no one
expects surprises is abortion. Mr.
Trump has vowed to appoint jus-
tices ready to overrule Roe v.
Wade, the 1973 decision that es-
tablished a constitutional right to
abortion. Groups opposing abor-
tion have championed Judge Bar-
rett’s nomination. And her aca-
demic and judicial writings have
been skeptical of broad interpre-
tations of abortion rights.
Judge Barrett will doubtless tell
senators that the Roe decision is a
settled precedent, as she did when
Mr. Trump nominated her to the
appeals court in 2017. And the Su-
preme Court may not hear a direct
challenge to Roe anytime soon,
preferring instead to consider
cases that could chip away at
Continued on Page 17
HEIR APPARENT Conservatives hope Judge Amy Coney Barrett will
follow the path of Justice Antonin Scalia, her former mentor. PAGE 19
FRAMING THE DEBATE Wary of being seen as making personal attacks,
Democrats are objecting to the nominee on policy grounds. PAGE 27
China, in Vaccine Wager, Gives
Unproven Shots to Thousands
By SUI-LEE WEE
First, workers at state-owned
companies got dosed. Then gov-
ernment officials and vaccine
company staff. Up next: teachers,
supermarket employees and peo-
ple traveling to risky areas
abroad.
The world still lacks a proven
coronavirus vaccine, but that has
not stopped Chinese officials from
trying to inoculate tens of thou-
sands, if not hundreds of thou-
sands, of people outside the tradi-
tional testing process. Three vac-
cine candidates are being injected
into workers whom the govern-
ment considers essential, along
with many others, including em-
ployees of the pharmaceutical
firms themselves.
Officials are laying out plans to
give shots to even more people,
citing emergency use, amounting
to a big wager that the vaccines
will eventually prove to be safe
and effective.
China’s rush has bewildered
global experts. No other country
has injected people with unproven
By PETER BAKER
and NICHOLAS FANDOS
WASHINGTON — President
Trump introduced Judge Amy Co-
ney Barrett as his nominee to the
Supreme Court on Saturday,
presenting her as a champion of
conservative judicial principles
and igniting a partisan and ideo-
logical battle to confirm her before
the election in just 38 days.
During an early evening cere-
mony in the Rose Garden with
Judge Barrett at his side and her
husband and seven children in the
audience, Mr. Trump said she
would make decisions “based on
the text of the Constitution as
written” much as her mentor, Jus-
tice Antonin Scalia, the icon of le-
gal conservatives for whom she
once clerked, had done.
“She is a woman of unparalleled
achievement, towering intellect,
sterling credentials and unyield-
ing loyalty to the Constitution,”
Mr. Trump said, making his third
Supreme Court nomination in his
nearly four years in office. At
stake in her nomination is the fu-
ture of gun rights, religious liberty
and public safety, he added, as he
pressed for historically rapid ac-
tion by the Senate. “This should be
a straightforward and prompt
confirmation,” he said.
In her own remarks, Judge Bar-
rett directly aligned herself with
Justice Scalia, who died in 2016
and whose widow, Maureen
Scalia, was in the audience. “His
judicial philosophy is mine, too —
a judge must apply the law as writ-
ten,” Judge Barrett said. “Judges
are not policymakers, and they
must be resolute in setting aside
any policy views they might hold.”
The president and Judge Bar-
rett herself emphasized her role
as a mother in an effort to human-
ize her in anticipation of attacks
on her philosophy and her reli-
gious convictions. Mr. Trump
noted that she would be “the first
mother of school-aged children
ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme
Court,” and Judge Barrett called
herself “a room parent, car pool
driver and birthday party plan-
ner” who adopted two children
from Haiti and, like so many in re-
cent months, has had to learn the
vicissitudes of online education.
She also sought to address “my
Continued on Page 16
vaccines outside the usual drug
trial process to such a huge scale.
The vaccine candidates are in
Phase 3 trials, or the late stages of
testing, which are mostly being
conducted outside China. The peo-
ple in those trials are closely
tracked and monitored. It is not
clear that China is taking those
steps for everyone who is getting
the shots within the country.
The unproven vaccines could
have harmful side effects. Ineffec-
tive vaccines could lead to a false
sense of security and encourage
behavior that could lead to even
more infections.
The wide use of vaccines also
raises issues of consent, espe-
cially for employees of Chinese
vaccine makers and state-owned
companies who might feel pres-
sure to roll up their sleeves. The
companies have asked people tak-
ing the vaccines to sign a nondis-
closure agreement preventing
them from talking about it to the
news media.
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Trump names his court choice

Barrett A vote on confirming
Judge Amy Coney
Barrett to Supreme
is a hero Court could come
before the election.

to many By Sarah D. Wire

on right
Conservatives see her
as a likely champion
for their pet issues on
the nation’s top court.
By David G. Savage
WASHINGTON — In
nominating Judge Amy
Coney Barrett, President
Trump has chosen a well-re-
garded legal scholar who has
strong appeal to conserva-
tives and who almost surely
would move the high court
significantly to the right on
abortion, guns and other
high-profile issues.
If the Senate’s Republi-
can majority holds to its plan
to quickly elevate her to the
Supreme Court, her confir-
mation to replace the late
Justice Ruth Bader Gins-
burg would mark the sharp-
est ideological shift in a new
appointment in the nearly
three decades since Clar-
ence Thomas, a 43-year-old
conservative, was narrowly
confirmed to succeed liberal
Justice Thurgood Marshall
in 1991.
Barrett, 48, is a former
Notre Dame law professor
and a favorite law clerk of the
late Justice Antonin Scalia,
who remains an icon in con-
servative legal circles, much
like Ginsburg is regarded by
liberals.
Barrett has a limited
record as a judge with over
three years on the U.S. 7th
Circuit Court of Appeals in
Chicago. But as a law profes-
sor, she wrote several
lengthy articles on when jus-
tices should consider over-
[See Barrett, A8]
PRESIDENT TRUMP walks with Judge Amy Coney Barrett to a news conference at the White House, where
he described his Supreme Court nominee as “one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds.”
■■■ ELECTION 2020 ■■■
Fear and loathing engulf voters
Whoever wins Nov. 3, ‘it’s going to be like war,’ some worry
By Mark Z. Barabak
and Jenny Jarvie
When Jim Jackson looks ahead to
November, he cringes at what he sees: a
defeated President Trump refusing to
leave the White House and his support-
ers waging war to keep him there.
“The militias and the white suprem-
acists ... they’re going to put out the call
to arms,” said Jackson, 73, who lives in
the conservative-leaning suburbs of
Milwaukee and voted Republican for 52
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Trump named U.S. Cir-
cuit Judge Amy Coney Bar-
rett as his pick Saturday for
the vacant seat on the
Supreme Court, a move that
could further shift it to the
right and reshape American
law on abortion, healthcare,
religion and guns for a gen-
eration.
A confirmation vote may
occur before the election.
The announcement
comes just eight days after
the death of Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, who had
become a liberal icon in her
decades on the bench, and
38 days before the presi-
dential election. Voting has
already begun in dozens of
states.
Never before has a
Supreme Court justice been
nominated or confirmed so
close to a presidential elec-
Alex Brandon Associated Press tion.
If Trump succeeds in re-
placing Ginsburg with a con-
servative, the new justice
would join five other Repub-
lican appointees, including
two named by Trump.
Trump teased his choice
for days, even polling sup-
porters at a rally about
whether to choose a woman.
The prime-time announce-
ment in the Rose Garden of
the White House was at-
tended by high-profile Re-
publicans and Barrett’s hus-
band and their seven chil-
years, but not for Trump. “That’s my telling voters to act as though their life dren.
worst nightmare.” depended on it and the country’s future Trump called Barrett
Jeanine Davis shares his concern, was at stake. Dozens of conversations “one of our nation’s most
though for different reasons. with voters across the nation — from brilliant and gifted legal
Seated near the Huntington Beach the West Coast to the Upper Midwest to minds.”
Pier, wearing a red “Keep America the East — suggest that, this time, “I looked and I studied
Great” hat, the Trump supporter sug- many people really believe it. and you are very eminently
gested Democrats will do whatever it Punished by pandemic, buckled by qualified for this job. You are
takes to elect Joe Biden, and riot if they economic hardship and riven by relent- going to be fantastic,”
fail. “It’s going to be like war amongst less partisanship, America is facing an Trump said.
citizens,” said Davis, an executive re- election unlike any in modern times, a Trump noted that Bar-
cruiter in her 50s. vote shadowed by menace and fringed rett would be the first
Candidates often say a presidential with paranoia — much of it fed by the mother of school-aged chil-
contest is the most important ever, occupant of the [See Election, A7] dren to serve on the
Supreme Court.
Barrett, a 48-year-old for-
mer law clerk for the late Jus-
tice Antonin Scalia, was a
IN CHINA’S SHADOW longtime law professor at
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the University of Notre
Dame before Trump chose

Targeting Uighurs her for the circuit court in

2017. She was previously vet-
ted for the vacant Supreme
Court seat in 2018 that was

beyond borders filled instead by Brett M. Ka-

vanaugh, so Republicans be-
lieve she can move quickly
through the process.
The two had been in Paki- She is backed by the Fed-
Pakistan’s complicity stan for three weeks when eralist Society, like many of
they received a phone call the judicial nominees
reflects its fear from back home in the Chi- Trump has promised to pick
of upsetting Beijing. nese region of Xinjiang. from. In her legal writing and
Hayat’s wife, an ethnic three years on the appeals
Uighur, had been detained. court, Barrett hinted that
By Alice Su, He and Arafat raced to the she would rule with the most
Shashank Bengali border, where Chinese po- [See Court, A8]
and Shah Meer Baloch lice were waiting. They ar-
rested Arafat, a Uighur like
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan his mother, saying he would
— Sakandar Hayat wanted be questioned on what he
it to be a special Ramadan. had done in Pakistan. Far-right
He and his son Arafat left “Don’t separate us,”
northwestern China and Hayat begged the police. group rallies
Mayra Lopez-Garcia crossed the border into Hay- “Question him in front of me.
AN ULTRA RUNNER in his off time, U.S. Forest Service crew boss Jerry at’s native Pakistan. It was a I’ll be silent and he will speak in Portland
Garcia, 42, works out on the rugged terrain in the Angeles National Forest. journey to bring father and truth.”
Crowds are smaller
son closer together. But it “You’ll have your son
than expected at event
COLUMN ONE would end up tearing their back in a week,” the police
led by the Proud Boys,
family apart. [See China, A5]
which has been called a

This guy’s a real trailblazer hate group. NATION, A6

Lakers advance
to NBA finals
Firefighting crew boss took Bobcat fire personally Dominating the fourth
quarter, LeBron James
helps eliminate Denver
As a veteran crew boss for the U.S. Nuggets in Game 5 of
By David Wharton Forest Service, Garcia was looking for a Western Conference
place where his people could make a finals. SPORTS, D1
n the early days of the Bobcat fire, stand. Though he had fought fires for more

I
Crew 63 got a call to head for Angeles
National Forest, into the mountains
where flames barreled through tall
grass and chaparral.
The fire was making a push toward
Azusa Canyon, smoke blowing too thick
for helicopter reconnaissance, so Jerry
Garcia grabbed one of his men and hiked a
few miles up a dirt road to scout the situa-
tion.
Weather
than a decade, this time felt different.
Hazy sun.
“Honestly,” he says, “my stomach was
L.A. Basin: 83/64. B12
churning.”
There was room for his crew to start Printed with soy inks on
working with chain saws and hand tools, partially recycled paper.
so that wasn’t a problem. Something else
bothered him.
Away from his job, Garcia ranks among Mashal Baloch For The Times
Southern California’s top ultra runners, CHINA imprisoned Sakandar Hayat’s wife and son,
distinguishing him- [See Garcia, A10] who are Uighur, and sent his girls to an orphanage.

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Decimation, flaws and frustration

Inside Illinois nursing homes,
unease spreads with COVID-19
By Joe Mahr and Robert McCoppin
At a two-story nursing
home in Willowbrook, close
to the front entrance, is a
resident’s room where crys-
tal ornaments of birds and
butterflies adorn the win-
dow.
It’s where 93-year-old
Joan Keith nearly died
gasping for air — and later
ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE tested positive for
Phyllis Wade, 81, is cared for by daughter Doreen Hall, COVID-19.
right, and great-granddaughter Deaje Hall in Bolingbrook. It’s where she watched
ambulances evacuate dying
neighbors from Chateau
Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center.
And it’s where the former
beautician has been largely
confined since then, feeling
a mix of emotions: missing
her family, grateful to be
alive, yet leery of venturing
beyond her door frame.
“If I go in the hall, there’s
people — they have the
mask on and everything —
but I don’t know if they’re
carrying anything,” she said,
“and I don’t want to be ill
again.”
That uneasiness is felt in
long-term care facilities
across the state, places
where COVID-19 has taken
a particularly staggering toll
with no clear end in sight.
Six months into the pan-
demic, the new virus has
infected more than 28,000
Illinois long-term care resi-
dents and killed more than
4,000. It’s also fueled debate
over the Illinois Depart-
ment of Public Health’s
oversight of a mostly for-
profit industry. That in-
cludes how the agency cut
back inspections, at times
breaking state law, as the
virus raced through facili-
ties.
Although far fewer resi-
dents are testing positive
now than in the spring, no
radical medical break-
throughs are yet in sight.
The arrival of fall brings fear
of a deadly virus resurgence,
continued struggles over
testing and protective gear,
and restrictions that — in an
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View of
cop stops
exposes
distrust
Doubt manifests
itself on racial lines
in monitor’s survey
By Annie Sweeney
Many Black Americans’
distrust for police, both in
Chicago and around the
country, has been high-
lighted repeatedly in 2020,
most recently last week
with outrage over the con-
troversial result of an inves-
tigation into the death of
Breonna Taylor in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Chicago had its own wa-
tershed moment on polic-
ing and racism with the
2014 shooting of Black teen-
ager Laquan McDonald by a
white officer later convicted
of second-degree murder,
touching off efforts for
sweeping reform. But a re-
cent community survey on
policing here that is part of
that effort points to a con-
CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY tinuing, wide racial divide
President Trump introduces Amy Coney Barrett on Saturday as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House. between how Black and
white residents view cops,

Trump taps Barrett for

including a persistent issue:

Turn to Doubt, Page 4

Supreme Court choice

Pick sets up bitter confirmation as GOP moves to fast-track process BRIAN CASSELLA/TRIBUNE

By Rick Pearson and Jason Meisner making the Barrett announce- Acknowledging what she
Flu vaccinations
ment in the Rose Garden, where called a “rather overwhelming in COVID-19 era
Three years ago, University of Notre Dame law professor Amy she was joined by her husband occasion,” Barrett told Trump
Coney Barrett was plucked from relative obscurity by President and seven children. she was “deeply honored by the Drive-thru flu shots? Vac-
“The stakes for our country confidence you have placed in cine vouchers? How getting
Donald Trump to serve as a federal appellate judge on the are incredibly high. Rulings that me.” a flu shot will be different
Chicago-based 7th Circuit. the Supreme Court will issue in “I have no illusions that the this year. Business
Now, Barrett has been thrust into an even more searing national the coming years will decide the road ahead of me will be easy,
survival of our Second Amend- either for the short term or the
spotlight as Trump on Saturday formally nominated the South Bend
ment, our religious liberty, our long haul,” she said. “I never
judge to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth public safety and so much more,”
Trump said. “To maintain securi-
imagined that I would find my-
self in this position. But now that
Entertaining from
Bader Ginsburg.
ty, liberty and prosperity, we I am, I assure you that I will meet start to finish
“It is my honor to nominate of unparalleled achievement, must preserve our priceless her- the challenge with both humility
one of our nation’s most brilliant towering intellect, sterling cre- itage of a nation of laws and there and courage.” Cubs, Sox did what they
and gifted legal minds to the dentials and unyielding loyalty to is no one better to do that than needed during pandemic-
Supreme Court. She is a woman the Constitution,” Trump said in Amy Coney Barrett.” Turn to Barrett, Page 2 shortened season. Paul
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