House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday formally laid out a plan to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for the coronavirus pandemic, a “roadmap” that includes eight steps Congress can take to do so.
Definitive proof, if found, that a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) may have caused the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has the potential to break the nearly impenetrable shield of sovereign immunity protecting China from lawsuits by American victims of the virus.
Chinese state media is still cranking out editorials denouncing U.S. lawsuits intended to hold Beijing accountable for the death and damage inflicted by the Wuhan coronavirus, suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is more than a little worried about backlash from the pandemic, even if the legal principle of sovereign immunity protects it from these particular lawsuits.
An especially unhinged editorial from China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday threatened to sue the United States for supposedly creating AIDS in the 1980s in retaliation for the state of Missouri filing a lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for unleashing the Wuhan coronavirus.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced that she is preparing to sue China to hold the nation accountable for the deaths, illnesses, and economic losses caused by the coronavirus.
Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a contempt citation imposed by the D.C. federal courts in a secret case supposedly involving Special Counsel Robert Mueller, an extraordinary action that could lead to the first secret Supreme Court hearing in America history.
