The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies - part of a push for new powers that comes as the novel coronavirus spreads throughout the United States.

No one except the foolish or perhaps the suicidal would deny that the coronavirus has created a deadly crisis affecting every American. But it is in a time of crisis that Americans are at their very best. America was born out of crisis. Taken for granted by an arrogant king