Biden arrives in Belfast
Joe Biden was accompanied by his sister Valerie Biden Owen, his son Hunter Biden, and lately appointed financial envoy to Northern Eire, Joseph Kennedy II. The president was greeted by Rishi Sunak.
Biden greeted on windy, chilly Belfast evening by UK’s prime minister @RishiSunak, UK’s ambassador to US @KarenPierceUK@USAmbUK Jane Hartley, Northern Eire’s @chhcalling.
POTUS’s sister Valerie and son Hunter joined the tarmac receiving line. pic.twitter.com/eUvaoiyTUD
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 11, 2023
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Some background, from The Guardian’s Rory Carroll and Lisa O’Carroll:
The US president was because of be met at Belfast worldwide airport by Rishi Sunak on Tuesday evening for the beginning of a go to anticipated to combine delicate political choreography with financial bulletins and occasions linked to Biden’s Irish and Catholic heritage.
Chatting with reporters earlier than taking off in Air Drive One, Biden mentioned he wished to safeguard the Good Friday settlement, which was signed 25 years in the past this week, and assist Sunak’s post-Brexit deal for the area. Requested what his priorities for the journey had been, he mentioned: “Be certain the Irish accords and Windsor agreements keep in place. Preserve the peace and that’s the primary factor. It appears like we’re going to maintain our fingers crossed.”
Heavy safety on either side of the border preceded the US entourage, which can embrace the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and a lately appointed financial envoy to Northern Eire, Joseph Kennedy III.
Dozens of police and US secret service autos sealed off rain-drenched streets round central Belfast on Tuesday. Manhole covers had been lifted and checked and sniffer canines inspected resort rooms as a part of a £7m safety operation – bolstered by 300 further police from the British mainland.
In Derry, police recovered 4 suspected pipe bombs from a cemetery the place republicans had staged an Easter Monday commemoration that led to petrol bomb assaults on police. The invention was a “sinister and worrying improvement”, mentioned the Police Service of Northern Eire assistant chief constable, Bobby Singleton, with the Police Federation for Northern Eire saying it was a transparent assertion of intent to trigger hurt to cops.
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Joe Biden was accompanied by his sister Valerie Biden Owen, his son Hunter Biden, and recently appointed economic envoy to Northern Ireland, Joseph Kennedy II. The president was greeted by Rishi Sunak.
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Some background, from The Guardian’s Rory Carroll and Lisa O’Carroll:
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The US president was due to be met at Belfast international airport by Rishi Sunak on Tuesday night for the start of a visit expected to mix delicate political choreography with economic announcements and events linked to Biden’s Irish and Catholic heritage.
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Speaking to reporters before taking off in Air Force One, Biden said he wanted to safeguard the Good Friday agreement, which was signed 25 years ago this week, and support Sunak’s post-Brexit deal for the region. Asked what his priorities for the trip were, he said: “Make sure the Irish accords and Windsor agreements stay in place. Keep the peace and that’s the main thing. It looks like we’re going to keep our fingers crossed.”
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Heavy security on both sides of the border preceded the US entourage, which will include the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and a recently appointed economic envoy to Northern Ireland, Joseph Kennedy III.
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In Derry, police recovered four suspected pipe bombs from a cemetery where republicans had staged an Easter Monday commemoration that led to petrol bomb attacks on police. The discovery was a “sinister and worrying development”, said the Police Service of Northern Ireland assistant chief constable, Bobby Singleton, with the Police Federation for Northern Ireland saying it was a clear statement of intent to cause harm to police officers.
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In about 20 minutes,Air Force One is expected to touch down in Belfast, Northern Ireland where Joe Biden will begin his five-day trip to the island. While he has no public events scheduled this evening, tomorrow he will meet with UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and deliver a speech at Ulster University, before departing for Dublin.
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Keep it turned to this blog, where the Guardian’s Maanvi Singh will be covering Biden’s Belfast arrival as it happens. Until then, here’s a recap of what’s happened today so far:
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House speaker Kevin McCarthywill speak at the New York Stock Exchange next week regarding the debt ceiling. He will probably reiterate the GOP’s demand that the Biden administration accept spending cuts in exchange for their votes to raise it.
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic leader, will next week introduce a resolution to condemn Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice department.
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Democratsare planning their counterattack to House Republicans’ plans next week to hold a hearing on crime in New York City – where Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently filed criminal charges against Trump.
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Speaking of Bragg, he filed a lawsuit against House judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan to get him to stop messing with his prosecution of the former president.
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Montana might be about to outlaw abortion after the second trimester of pregnancy.
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The Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has asked that the chamber’s lawmakers be briefed on the leaked Pentagon documents concerning US assessments of the war in Ukraine.
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“Majority Leader Schumer has requested a classified briefing for all senators on the leaked classified US documents on the war in Ukraine,” a spokesperson for the senator told the Guardian’s US politics live blog.
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Among the revelations from the documents is that Washington is concerned about Kyiv’s military strength ahead of a counteroffensive against Russia’s forces, which expected to start soon. Read more about that below:
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Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a lawsuit against Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House judiciary committee, to stop his efforts aimed at publicizing details of his office’s prosecution of Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.
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Jordan is one of Trump’s top allies in Congress, and together with other Republicans has demanded documents and testimony from Bragg, who late last month indicted the former president on charges of falsifying business records. Last week, Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor in Bragg’s office who wrote a book about why he thinks Trump should face charges. The subpoena requires Pomerantz sit for a deposition before the judiciary committee, which has played a major role in the House GOP’s campaign of investigations against the Biden administration.
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Accusing Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on Bragg’s prosecution, and a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the Manhattan prosecutor, the lawsuit filed in federal court asks a judge to halt the subpoena to Pomerantz, and any future summons.
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The Times reports that Pomerantz “has shown no indication that he is willing to testify voluntarily”, but declined to comment on Bragg’s lawsuit.
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Congress is finally getting the access it has demanded to the classified documents taken from Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Mike Pence, though the materials will only be viewed in secret and by the chamber’s top leaders. Meanwhile, Democrats have made an important decision: Chicago will be the host city for their convention next year. Still no definitive word from Biden on his re-election plans, though yesterday he made it plain as can be by saying, “I plan on running.”
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Here’s what else has happened so far today:
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House speaker Kevin McCarthywill speak at the New York Stock Exchange next week regarding the debt ceiling, where he’ll likely demand the Biden administration accept spending cuts in exchange for the GOP’s support in raising it.
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic leader, will next week introduce a resolution to condemn Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice department.
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Democratsare planning their counterattack to House Republicans’ plans next week to hold a hearing on crime in New York City – where Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently filed criminal charges against Trump.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) today selected Chicago as the host city for its convention next year, where Joe Biden will likely again receive the party’s nomination to contest the presidential election.
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“Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down,” Biden said in a statement announcing the decision.
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DNC chair Jaime Harrison said: “The midwest reflects America and will give Democrats an opportunity to showcase some of President Biden and Vice-President Harris’s most significant accomplishments for American families. I’m grateful to the leadership of Chicago’s bid for being great partners, as well as to the other cities for putting forward such strong bids.”
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Chicago beat out Atlanta, Houston and New York in the race for the convention’s host city.
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If there’s one lesson to be drawn from the classified documents scandal that’s gripped Washington since last August, it’s this: people who work at the White House apparently like to hang on to government secrets.
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Now, the three powerful men implicated here are in varying degrees of trouble, though with none of their cases resolved, we don’t know yet how severe the consequences could be.
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Donald Trump appears to be in the greatest peril. He’s being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith over the secret materials the FBI found when they searched Mar-a-Lago last August – which only happened after the former president refused months of entreaties to hand over all the materials that he had. Smith is also looking into Trump’s involvement in the January 6 insurrection and the broader effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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But it turns out Joe Biden had his own stash of classified documents. Unlike Trump, the president reportedly started handing them over to government secret keepers as soon as he became aware he had the materials – which date back to his time as a senator and vice-president – at his former office and residence, though the White House did keep quiet for months about the discoveries after they were first made around the time of last November’s midterm election. Attorney general Merrick Garland has appointed another special prosecutor, Robert Hur, to look into whether Biden broke the law here.
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Trump’s former vice-president Mike Pence also kept classified documents at his home in Indiana, and has since turned them over to the powers that be. Garland has not appointed a special prosecutor to look into this.
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Good morning, US politics blog readers. We’ve known for months that Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Mike Pence were holding on to classified documents they apparently should not have possessed – but what, exactly, did they have? The leaders of Congress are finding out, after the Democratic and Republican leaders in each chamber as well as the top lawmakers on the intelligence committees were given access to the material taken from three men, Punchbowl News reports. It remains to be seen if the lawmakers will keep quiet about what they saw, or air their views about the issue, which presents varying degrees of legal peril for the three men.
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Washington continues to reel from a major leak of US intelligence materials, and national security officials say they don’t know yet if the apparently purloined documents have been contained.
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Joe Biden is heading to Northern Ireland where he will, among other things, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement that mostly quelled decades of violence.
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters during Biden’s flight to Belfast.
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Joe Biden will meet with Northern Eire political social gathering leaders tomorrow, however is just not anticipated to carry a information convention in Eire.
Right here’s a recap of immediately’s information:
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Home speaker Kevin McCarthy will converse on the New York Inventory Trade subsequent week relating to the debt ceiling. He’ll in all probability reiterate the GOP’s demand that the Biden administration settle for spending cuts in change for his or her votes to boost it.
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic chief, will subsequent week introduce a decision to sentence Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice division.
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Democrats are planning their counterattack to Home Republicans’ plans subsequent week to carry a listening to on crime in New York Metropolis – the place Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg lately filed felony prices towards Trump.
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Talking of Bragg, he filed a lawsuit towards Home judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan to get him to cease messing together with his prosecution of the previous president.
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Montana may be about to outlaw abortion after the second trimester of being pregnant.
Biden arrives in Belfast
Joe Biden was accompanied by his sister Valerie Biden Owen, his son Hunter Biden, and lately appointed financial envoy to Northern Eire, Joseph Kennedy II. The president was greeted by Rishi Sunak.
Biden greeted on windy, chilly Belfast evening by UK’s prime minister @RishiSunak, UK’s ambassador to US @KarenPierceUK@USAmbUK Jane Hartley, Northern Eire’s @chhcalling.
POTUS’s sister Valerie and son Hunter joined the tarmac receiving line. pic.twitter.com/eUvaoiyTUD
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 11, 2023
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Some background, from The Guardian’s Rory Carroll and Lisa O’Carroll:
The US president was because of be met at Belfast worldwide airport by Rishi Sunak on Tuesday evening for the beginning of a go to anticipated to combine delicate political choreography with financial bulletins and occasions linked to Biden’s Irish and Catholic heritage.
Chatting with reporters earlier than taking off in Air Drive One, Biden mentioned he wished to safeguard the Good Friday settlement, which was signed 25 years in the past this week, and assist Sunak’s post-Brexit deal for the area. Requested what his priorities for the journey had been, he mentioned: “Be certain the Irish accords and Windsor agreements keep in place. Preserve the peace and that’s the primary factor. It appears like we’re going to maintain our fingers crossed.”
Heavy safety on either side of the border preceded the US entourage, which can embrace the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and a lately appointed financial envoy to Northern Eire, Joseph Kennedy III.
Dozens of police and US secret service autos sealed off rain-drenched streets round central Belfast on Tuesday. Manhole covers had been lifted and checked and sniffer canines inspected resort rooms as a part of a £7m safety operation – bolstered by 300 further police from the British mainland.
In Derry, police recovered 4 suspected pipe bombs from a cemetery the place republicans had staged an Easter Monday commemoration that led to petrol bomb assaults on police. The invention was a “sinister and worrying improvement”, mentioned the Police Service of Northern Eire assistant chief constable, Bobby Singleton, with the Police Federation for Northern Eire saying it was a transparent assertion of intent to trigger hurt to cops.
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Biden anticipated to land in Belfast as Eire journey begins
In about 20 minutes,Air Drive One is predicted to the touch down in Belfast, Northern Eire the place Joe Biden will start his five-day journey to the island. Whereas he has no public occasions scheduled this night, tomorrow he’ll meet with UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and ship a speech at Ulster College, earlier than departing for Dublin.
Preserve it turned to this weblog, the place the Guardian’s Maanvi Singh will likely be overlaying Biden’s Belfast arrival because it occurs. Till then, right here’s a recap of what’s occurred immediately to date:
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Home speaker Kevin McCarthy will converse on the New York Inventory Trade subsequent week relating to the debt ceiling. He’ll in all probability reiterate the GOP’s demand that the Biden administration settle for spending cuts in change for his or her votes to boost it.
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic chief, will subsequent week introduce a decision to sentence Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice division.
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Democrats are planning their counterattack to Home Republicans’ plans subsequent week to carry a listening to on crime in New York Metropolis – the place Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg lately filed felony prices towards Trump.
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Talking of Bragg, he filed a lawsuit towards Home judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan to get him to cease messing together with his prosecution of the previous president.
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Montana may be about to outlaw abortion after the second trimester of being pregnant.
Senate chief calls for briefing on leaked Pentagon paperwork
The Senate’s Democratic chief Chuck Schumer has requested that the chamber’s lawmakers be briefed on the leaked Pentagon paperwork regarding US assessments of the battle in Ukraine.
“Majority Chief Schumer has requested a labeled briefing for all senators on the leaked labeled US paperwork on the battle in Ukraine,” a spokesperson for the senator instructed the Guardian’s US politics dwell weblog.
Among the many revelations from the paperwork is that Washington is anxious about Kyiv’s navy energy forward of a counteroffensive towards Russia’s forces, which anticipated to begin quickly. Learn extra about that beneath:
Right here’s what Republican Home judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan has to say in regards to the lawsuit the Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg filed towards him:
First, they indict a president for no crime.
Then, they sue to dam congressional oversight once we ask questions in regards to the federal funds they are saying they used to do it.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 11, 2023
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First, they indict a president for no crime.
Then, they sue to dam congressional oversight once we ask questions in regards to the federal funds they are saying they used to do it.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 11, 2023
The president he’s referring to right here is, after all, Donald Trump.
The household of Evan Gershkovich, the American Wall Avenue Journal reporter detained in Russia on espionage prices, has launched a press release after Joe Biden referred to as them immediately.
Learn it right here:
Evan Gershkovich's household launched the next assertion after their name with President Biden on Tuesday:
Learn extra right here:https://t.co/5yrL0Z6vabpic.twitter.com/UQc3VvYBCL
— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) April 11, 2023
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Manhattan DA sues high Republican to halt meddling with Trump case
Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg has filed a lawsuit towards Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the Home judiciary committee, to cease his efforts geared toward publicizing particulars of his workplace’s prosecution of Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.
Jordan is considered one of Trump’s high allies in Congress, and along with different Republicans has demanded paperwork and testimony from Bragg, who late final month indicted the previous president on prices of falsifying enterprise data. Final week, Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor in Bragg’s workplace who wrote a ebook about why he thinks Trump ought to face prices. The subpoena requires Pomerantz sit for a deposition earlier than the judiciary committee, which has performed a significant position within the Home GOP’s marketing campaign of investigations towards the Biden administration.
Accusing Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional assault” on Bragg’s prosecution, and a “clear marketing campaign to intimidate and assault” the Manhattan prosecutor, the lawsuit filed in federal courtroom asks a decide to halt the subpoena to Pomerantz, and any future summons.
The Instances stories that Pomerantz “has proven no indication that he’s keen to testify voluntarily”, however declined to touch upon Bragg’s lawsuit.
Joanna Walters
A invoice to limit abortions in Montana will develop into regulation – a minimum of quickly – if the governor indicators it, a decide has dominated, and the Related Press stories.
The newest ruling denies a request by abortion rights advocates to preemptively block laws that will ban the abortion methodology mostly used within the second trimester.
District courtroom decide Kathy Seeley mentioned the request by Deliberate Parenthood of Montana was made earlier than the invoice turned regulation, so there may be nothing to dam.
Montana’s legislature authorised the invoice on Friday. It could ban dilation and evacuation abortions, that are usually used later than 15 weeks right into a being pregnant. The ban will take impact instantly if Republican governor Greg Gianforte indicators it.
Deliberate Parenthood argued the regulation is unconstitutional based mostly on a 1999 Montana supreme courtroom ruling that discovered that the state structure’s proper to privateness consists of the suitable to have a pre-viability abortion from a supplier of the affected person’s selection.
The group requested the courtroom to freeze the regulation preemptively to ensure sufferers wouldn’t be prevented from getting care whereas the courtroom thought of the case.
Joanna Walters
Rightwinger Stephen Miller, a senior aide in Donald Trump’s White Home, was noticed this morning in Washington DC, “coming into the realm the place the grand jury tied to particular counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation meets,” NBC reports.
Miller and his legal professional reportedly wouldn’t inform reporters why they had been there.
The US courtroom of appeals for the DC circuit final week denied Trump’s emergency movement to dam a number of senior aides being referred to as to testify, together with Miller, former chief of employees Mark Meadows and former deputy White Home chief of employees Dan Scavino, NBC provides.
A 12 months in the past, Miller testified to the Home of Representatives choose committee investigating the riot on 6 January 2021, by extremist supporters of Trump who had been looking for to maintain the then president in workplace by stopping the official certification by Congress of Joe Biden’s election victory.
Sources instructed the Guardian on the time that Miller was testifying in regards to the extent to which Trump inspired his supporters to march on the US Capitol, inciting an riot (for which he was later impeached in an unprecedented transfer by the Home to question a US president for a second time, though, as soon as once more he was later acquitted by the US Senate).
Miller was a senior adviser to the-then president Trump and director of speechwriting, recognized for his hard-right anti-immigration beliefs.
Democratic Home consultant Jennifer Wexton has introduced she has been identified with Parkinson’s illness:
On #WorldParkinsonsDay, I'm right here to share that I've been identified with Parkinson's Illness.
I'm doing nicely, and I wish to result in as a lot good from this analysis as I can—together with right here in Congress. pic.twitter.com/bvEwzZQbqp
— Rep. Jennifer Wexton (@RepWexton) April 11, 2023
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Wexton, who represents Virginia’s suburbs close to Washington DC, was among the many Democrats thought of susceptible in final November’s midterm election, although she ended up being re-elected with greater than 53% of the vote.
The day to date
Congress is lastly getting the entry it has demanded to the labeled paperwork taken from Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Mike Pence, although the supplies will solely be seen in secret and by the chamber’s high leaders. In the meantime, Democrats have made an essential resolution: Chicago would be the host metropolis for his or her conference subsequent 12 months. Nonetheless no definitive phrase from Biden on his re-election plans, although yesterday he made it plain as might be by saying, “I plan on operating.”
Right here’s what else has occurred to date immediately:
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Home speaker Kevin McCarthy will converse on the New York Inventory Trade subsequent week relating to the debt ceiling, the place he’ll probably demand the Biden administration settle for spending cuts in change for the GOP’s assist in elevating it.
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic chief, will subsequent week introduce a decision to sentence Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice division.
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Democrats are planning their counterattack to Home Republicans’ plans subsequent week to carry a listening to on crime in New York Metropolis – the place Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg lately filed felony prices towards Trump.
Shifting to the realm of much less public Republican actions, the Guardian’s Peter Stone stories on an intensifying conservative effort to undermine voter rolls nationwide:
An influential conservative group that has filed quite a few lawsuits to power states to wash up their voter rolls, has joined Donald Trump and different election denial teams in attacking essentially the most sturdy software that precisely improves these voter rolls.
Judicial Watch, whose chief Tom Fitton urged Trump in 2020 to assert victory earlier than all of the votes had been tallied, launched a flawed report alleging potential violations of federal regulation by the Digital Registration Data Middle (Eric), a bipartisan consortium of over two dozen states that change voter registration information to make sure election safety.
Fitton’s assault on Eric is a part of a rising marketing campaign by Trump-allied election denialist teams and Trump to induce member states to depart the consortium, prompting scathing criticism from voting rights advocates and election specialists together with some GOP officers.
In the meantime, Punchbowl Information stories immediately {that a} group of Democrats will participate within the Home judiciary committee listening to in New York Metropolis, reversing their non-participation in among the discipline visits organized lately by the committee’s GOP chair Jim Jordan.
The committee’s rating member, New York consultant Jerry Nadler, and different Democrats are anticipated to carry a press convention with metropolis officers across the time of the listening to, Punchbowl stories. The occasion will likely be a part of their counter-attack to the argument Jordan and different Republicans are anticipated to make, which is that Manhattan district legal professional Alvin Bragg is targeted much less on preventing crime, and extra on prosecuting Donald Trump.