The Justice Department is siding with a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after police threatened a pastor with jail time or a $2,500 fine for violating the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions by holding a 16-person church service on Palm Sunday.

“The new narrative coming out of the Biden camp is that the president has a vested interest in holding up the general election. Of course, the presumptive Democrat nominee has not a shred of evidence to support such ludicrous accusations.”

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr Thursday, asking Barr to investigate public officials cracking down on religious freedom in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. "I urge you to pay specific attention to the growing tendency of local leaders to target communities of faith," Cruz wrote.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presented data on 2,333 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine - including two supervised by Dr Oz - across the globe that shows 91.6 percent of those who got the drug fared better after treatment.

In a memo issued Monday, Barr recognized that while some restrictions are necessary and proper for combating the coronavirus pandemic, others could go too far. "If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court," Barr said.

"We understand microbiology, we understand immunology, and we want strong immune systems," Dr. Erickson told reporters, rebuffing inconsistent shelter-in-place orders. "I don't want to stay in my home and develop a weak immune system, and then come out and get a disease." 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, has said Congress should hit pause on delivering more relief and take stock of the "extraordinary numbers that we're racking up to the national debt." Responding to CBO's grim projections, Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska warned about the effects of the nation's fiscal burden on future generations.

ALL the networks are now reporting almost NOTHING but BAD NEWS (or "supposed") bad news about the pandemic and what it is doing to our country.

And they are ALL doing this now: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and yes, even FOX -- they are designed only to promote fear and even terror among our people!

ENOUGH!

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who has become a lightning-rod figure during the coronavirus crisis for his detailed criticisms of state lockdown measures, told Fox News' Brit Hume in an interview Monday that he thinks officials' emphasis on expanded testing for the virus is an "excuse" to put off reopening the economy.

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that some state governors' efforts to fight the coronavirus "infringes on a fundamental right" of American residents.