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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC REOPENING SCHOOLS SUPREME COURT

Dedicated but in Neither GOP

a desperate spot nor Dems get
clear win on
Trump taxes
President must release records
to prosecutors but not Congress
John Fritze, David Jackson and Richard Wolf
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – A pair of Supreme Court deci-

sions focused on whether President Donald Trump
can shield his taxes from scrutiny handed his cam-
paign a temporary reprieve Thursday, even as Demo- In ruling
crats signaled they might make an election-year is- Donald
sue out of the court’s warning that not even Trump
presidents are “above the law.” must turn
The 7-2 decisions, both written by Chief Justice over tax
John Roberts, allowed Democrats to claim a legal vic- records to
tory: Trump, the court ruled, cannot withhold his tax prose-
returns and other financial records from prosecutors. cutors, the
But in practical terms, the rulings meant that the court up-
court battle over disclosure would continue – likely held its
well past the Nov. 3 election. position
“While defeated on his claim that he is above the that
law, Trump is now beyond the law until after the No- presidents
vember election,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas. aren’t
“He may not be able to outrun the law, but he is out- immune
running the clock – whining all the way.” from
Minutes after the rulings, Trump blasted the court having to
for rejecting his central legal argument that he had turn over
evidence
See TAXES, Page 4A in court
cases.

Christy Karwatt, 62, a social studies teacher at Sarasota High School in Florida, is struggling
over whether to go back to work in August. MIKE LANG/USA TODAY NETWORK Eastern Oklahoma More
deemed Native inside
Teachers agonize over the risks Back to h Supreme

they face returning to the classroom

school American territory Court: NYC
prosecutor
h In a USA can get
TODAY/ Ruling raises jurisdiction questions Trump’s
Ryan McKinnon and Ipsos poll financial
Elinor Aspegren in May, Richard Wolf and Kevin Johnson records.
“A high school is kind of like USA TODAY NETWORK 1 in 5 U.S. USA TODAY 5A
teachers h Justices
a cruise ship, an incubator. It Christy Karwatt teaches social said they WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled
block
is their developmental studies, but she’s been thinking more were Thursday that the eastern half of Oklahoma can be
Congress
like a math teacher the past few days. unlikely to considered Native American territory, a decision
from
imperative to interact with At 61, the Sarasota High School go back to the state warned could create “civil, criminal and
Trump
teacher is entering her 27th year in school if regulatory turmoil.”
one another. They feel Florida’s system, and she loves her The 5-4 decision was written by Associate Jus-
records for
their now. 5A
invincible.” job. She had planned on teaching classrooms tice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the court’s four lib-
three more years to maximize her re- reopened eral justices. The justices considered the issue for
Mary DeArment tirement payment. the second time after failing to decide a different
Sarasota High teacher in the fall.
As COVID-19 cases spike across case last year, when Gorsuch was recused and the
the country, officials pour on pres- h From the court likely deadlocked.
sure to reopen schools this fall. same poll, The case concerned an appeal from Jimcy
Monday, Florida’s education com- nearly McGirt, a Native American, who claimed his state
missioner ordered the state’s schools 9 in 10 rape conviction from 1997 should be overturned be-

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to open full-time in August. Tuesday,
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy De-
Vos criticized plans to offer in-person
instruction only a few days a week.
teachers
said they
foresee
difficulties
in
cause Oklahoma lacked jurisdiction. Congress, his
lawyer Ian Gershengorn said, never properly termi-
nated the reservation.
During oral arguments in May, the justices
HOME DELIVERY And the Centers for Disease Control reached back to 1907 to determine whether Con-
1-800-872-0001, USATODAYSERVICE.COM and Prevention is reworking its guid- enforcing
ance on reopening schools after social See OKLAHOMA, Page 4A
President Donald Trump said the distancing
guidelines were too tough. among
Karwatt began crunching the their
Pandemic wiping out
numbers on how much money she students.
summer travel plans
Summer car trips are predicted to fall would sacrifice if she retired early.
only slightly vs. 2019, but forecasters
expect huge drops in other forms See TEACHERS, Page 3A
of transportation. Expected year-
over-year drops by volume from July
through September:
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-3.3%
Automobile Can Trump do that?
A look at CDC, funds
In his push to reopen the nation’s schools, Presi-
-85.5% dent Donald Trump has criticized CDC guidelines
Rail, and threatened to withhold funding from schools
cruise,
-73.9% other that don’t plan for in-class learning. On Thursday,
Air the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch says because
SOURCE: AAA it would not be revising its guidance. We look at Congress never disestablished the tribes’ reservations, the land
AMY BARNETTE, BILL CAMPLING/USA TODAY what the president can – and can’t – do. Story, 3A remains Native American territory. HANNAH GABER/USA TODAY