Biden foregrounds abortion as he announces bid for second term as US president – live

Days after he was confirmed to the supreme court, Neil Gorsuch sold a property he co-owned to the head of a law firm that has argued cases before the justices, Politico reports.

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The story reveals another entanglement between the high court and parties outside it, after ProPublica reported on ties betweenClarence Thomas, one of the court’s best-known conservative jurors, and a Republican mega-donor. Gorsuch, a conservative, was appointed by Donald Trump to the court in 2017, filling a vacancy created by the death of fellow conservative Antonin Scalia the year before – which Mitch McConnell, then the Republican Senate majority leader, prevented Barack Obama from filling.

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Here’s more from Politico’s story:

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For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colorado.

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Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the high court. Gorsuch owned the property with two other individuals.

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On April 16 of 2017, Greenberg’s Brian Duffy put under contract the 3,000-square foot log home on the Colorado River and nestled in the mountains northwest of Denver, according to real estate records.

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He and his wife closed on the house a month later, paying $1.825 million, according to a deed in the county’s record system. Gorsuch, who held a 20 percent stake, reported making between $250,001 and $500,000 from the sale on his federal disclosure forms.

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Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank.

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Since then, Greenberg Traurig has been involved in at least 22 cases before or presented to the court, according to a POLITICO review of the court’s docket.

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They include cases in which Greenberg either filed amicus briefs or represented parties. In the 12 cases where Gorsuch’s opinion is recorded, he sided with Greenberg Traurig clients eight times and against them four times.

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Here it is, folks, Joe Biden’s official word that he wants a second term in the White House:

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There’s a lot in there, including the January 6 insurrection and abortion, which come first in the video and give a sense of which issues he thinks Americans care most about, as well as Ketanji Brown Jackson, the supreme court justice he appointed who is also the first Black woman on the court, and even his old boss Barack Obama, who you can glimpse for a split second.

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In response, the Republican National Committee has prepared a post-apocalyptic-style video that Axios reports is AI generated. It asks viewers to ponder “what if” Biden remains president while various crises break out:

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Donald Trump has a lengthy statement in response to Biden’s renewed candidacy, which starts with these lines: “You could take the five worst presidents in American history, and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our Nation in just a few short years. Not even close.”

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You can read the rest here.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Joe Biden has announced his campaign for a second term as president with a video address released this morning. It’s a big decision by the 80-year-old, who has been dogged by low approval ratings throughout most of his term thus far, but managed to get several major pieces of legislation passed by Congress and help Democrats defend a surprising number of seats in last November’s midterm elections.

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There will be lots to say about this announcement, which is not at all a surprise, but here’s one takeaway: with Biden facing no serious primary contenders and Donald Trump back on the campaign trail and well ahead in the polls among Republicans, presidential ballots in 2024 could look a lot like they did in 2020.

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Here’s what else we expect to happen today:

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• Biden’s first speech since announcing his bid for a second term is at 12.30pm ET in Washington, where he’s set to talk about manufacturing.

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• White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters at 2pm.

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• The trial of author E Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against Donald Trump begins in New York at 9.30am.

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