WHAT'S BREWING
TOP U.S. GENERALS QUARANTINING Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and several other top military leaders are reportedly quarantining after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for the coronavirus. Though Milley has so far tested negative for the virus, he and other defense officials are taking precautionary measures after the vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Adm. Charles Ray, tested positive on Monday. The Coast Guard said Ray is quarantining at home and officials have started contact tracing. Ray recently attended several meetings at the Pentagon. [HuffPost]
FACEBOOK BANS GROUPS AND PAGES AFFILIATED WITH QANON Facebook said it would ban all groups, pages and Instagram accounts that openly identify with QAnon. The shift strengthens an August decision by the tech company to remove QAnon pages that celebrated violence, although that move was seen by many — including Facebook employees — as too lax to stop the spread of pernicious misinformation. Facebook said that, although it has been active removing QAnon content that celebrated violence, other material “tied to different forms of real world harm” would no longer be welcome on the platform. [HuffPost]
EX-CIA DIRECTOR GIVES CHILLING WARNING ON 4 MORE YEARS Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA under President George W. Bush, is warning about the toll of four more years of Trump. “If there is another term for President Trump, I don’t know what will happen to America,” Hayden said in a video released by Republican Voters Against Trump. Hayden cited Trump’s disregard for the truth, his refusal to act against violent white supremacist groups and his disregard for America’s allies as reasons the nation could be in jeopardy. Hayden endorsed Joe Biden for president. [HuffPost]
POLL: VOTERS GIVE AMY CONEY BARRETT NARROWLY POSITIVEMARKS Registered voters give narrowly positive ratings to Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds, but say that hearings for her confirmation should wait until after the election. Voters approve of Barrett’s nomination 46% to 42%. For comparison, in February 2017 voters said by a much broader 17-point margin that the Senate should vote to confirm then-nominee Neil Gorsuch.) Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports Barrett served as a "handmaid" in a male-dominated Christian group while in law school.[HuffPost]
BIDEN WILL MAKE ROE V WADE 'LAW OF THE LAND' At a town hall in Miami, Biden was asked about his plan for protecting abortion access in light of Trump’s nomination of conservative Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “Number one, we don’t know exactly what she will do, though the expectation is that she will move to overrule Roe,” Biden said. “The only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation making Roe the law of the land. That’s what I would do.” Biden says on his website that in addition to codifying Roe into federal law, he would use his Justice Department to stop state laws that violate the constitutional right to an abortion. [HuffPost]
'TECHNICAL CONCERNS' HINDER BILL TARGETING WHITE SUPREMACISTS Senate Republicans prevented a vote on the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act last week. The bill, which passed the House unanimously, would establish offices in the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI dedicated to combating the rising threat of far-right extremist violence. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — a close Trump ally who, like the president, recently tested positive for COVID-19 — blocked the bill. A spokesperson said senators have "technical concerns." [HuffPost] | 
