January 6 investigation continues as report emerges Trump was warned of Mar-a-Lago raid – live

It’s 6pm ET. Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

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• Federal prosecutors are seeking to bring a new indictment against Hunter Bidenby the end of September, according to court documents. The exact charges the president’s son would face were not immediately clear, but he has been under investigation in Delaware on gun and tax charges.

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• Donald Trump is making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the federal criminal case dealing with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, attorneys for special counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing.

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• A watchdog group is suing to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, saying he violated the constitution and is disqualified from holding future office. The lawsuit is so far one of the strongest challenges to Trump’s eligibility to seek re-election.

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• Trump should “absolutely” be held accountable in court for attempting to overturn the 2020 election and inspiring the January 6 attack on Congress if the evidence proves it, said Kamala Harris, speaking after a former leader of a far-right group involved in the riot was sentenced to 22 years in jail.

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• The judge presiding over the Georgia election subversion case deniedKenneth Chesebro’s request to separate his case from Sidney Powell, a co-defendant in the case. Both Powell and Chesebro’s trials will begin on 23 October.

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• Mitch McConnell rejected speculation about his future as Republican leader in the US Senate, telling reporters: “I’m going to finish my term as leader and I’m going to finish my Senate term.” The remarks came amid intense speculation about the 81-year-old Kentucky senator’s health, after two recent freezes in front of reporters, one on Capitol Hill in July and another in McConnell’s home state last week.

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• A federal judge ordered Texas to remove floating barriers that were placed in the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, in a tentative win for the Biden administration. Texas governor Greg Abbott said the state would appeal.

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• Democrats worried about Joe Biden’s re-election prospects are “fucking bedwetters” and should not worry so much, the former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said. Polling shows Trump is the clear leader in the Republican race to face Biden next year. Polling also shows Trump and Biden in a close race, and Biden’s approval ratings remain stubbornly low, even regarding an economy most observers consider to be in good shape.

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A federal judge ordered Texas to remove floating barriers that were placed in the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, in a tentative win for the Biden adminstration.

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The US district court judge David Ezra ordered Texas to relocate the buoys, currently near the city of Eagle Pass, to an embankment on the Texas side of the river by 15 September.

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The order came as part of a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration against Texas, who argued that the barrier illegally disrupts navigation and was installed without permission from the US army corps of engineers.

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“Governor Abbott announced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier,” Ezra wrote in a 42-page order.

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Unfortunately for Texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters.

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He added that the state “did not present any credible evidence that the buoy barrier as installed has significantly curtailed illegal immigration across the Rio Grande River”.

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The ruling is a setback for the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, who said the state would appeal. He said:

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Today’s court decision merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along.

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In a court filing, federal prosecutors have said they plan to indict Hunter Biden by 29 September, Reuters reports. It is unclear what charges he will face.

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The president’s son has been under federal investigation since 2018 for potential violations of tax and gun laws. In July, he was expected to plead guilty to charges related to failing to declare some income, and enter a diversion program to resolve a gun charge, but the deal unexpectedly fell apart amid scrutiny from a federal judge in Delaware, and after prosecutors made clear that the investigation into Biden’s business dealings remains ongoing.

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Just over five hours after attorneys made their opening arguments in former Trump White House official Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress trial, Politico reports that both the defense and prosecutions have rested their cases:

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That leaves closing arguments as the only unfinished business, which will take place tomorrow. After that, the jury is expected to start deliberations. Navarro was indicted for defying subpoenas from the congressional committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection last year.

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Earlier in the trial today, Politico reports that prosecutors called three witnesses who worked for the committee and testified about the process for issuing Navarro the subpoenas, and how he did not respond to them. The defense called no witnesses.

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Scott McAfee, the judge presiding over the Georgia election subversion case, has denied Kenneth Chesebro’s request to separate his case from Sidney Powell, a co-defendant in the case.

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Powell and Chesebro, both attorneys who worked with Donald Trump’s campaign in late 2020, when he sought to overturn his election loss, have filed to have their cases resolved quickly, and McAfee ordered Chesebro’s trial to begin on 23 October. Chesebro and Powell then sought to have their cases handled separately, arguing that the charges they are facing are different enough that there’s no reason to try them together.

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In today’s hearing, McAfee disagreed, and as a result, both Powell and Chesebro’s trials will begin on 23 October.

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Mitch McConnell told senators in a behind-closed-doors meeting that he will remain as the Republican leader in the chamber, despite two public instances where he appeared unable to speak in recent months, CNN reports:

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McConnell, 81, has been the highest-ranking Republican senator since 2007.

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Federal prosecutors in the Fulton county case said a joint trial for all 19 defendants in the Georgia election subversion case would take about four months.

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The trial would involve 150 witnesses and the timeline does not account for jury selection, prosecutor Nathan Wade said.

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He added that prosecutors would want to try everyone together and not have to repeat the same trial multiple times.

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The first hearing in the Georgia election interference case has begun and is being televised live.

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Fulton County superior court judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case against Donald Trump and 18 other codefendants, is presiding over today’s hearing.

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McAfee will consider motions from attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell who are requesting their cases be severed from each other and the rest of those charged in the case.

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It’s been another big day for the legal profession, particularly as it applies to Donald Trump. In Colorado, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is suing on behalf of six residents to keep the former president off the ballot, arguing he violated the constitution with his involvement in the January 6 insurrection. In New York, a judge determined a second defamation suit against Trump from writer E Jean Carrollwill go to trial – but only to determine damages, in a significant victory for her case.

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Here’s what else has gone on today so far:

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• Kamala Harrisbroke the White House’s silence over Trump’s legal troubles, saying that, when it comes to January 6 cases, “Let the evidence, the facts, take it where it may.”

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• Opening arguments began in former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress trial.

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• A Mitch McConnell antagonistdeclined to call on the senator to step down as Republican leader despite his recent health scares.

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Earlier this year, Florida’s Rick Scott tried to oust Mitch McConnell from his role as the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, and was resoundingly defeated.

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Now, concerns about McConnell’s health are swirling after the Kentucky lawmaker fell down and suffered a concussion in March, and then froze up twice while giving public remarks in recent months. McConnell is 81, and the episodes have amplified concerns that his health may undermine his ability to continue leading the party.

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But CNN reports that Scott is not pondering another revolt against McConnell:

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Other GOP senators aren’t so sure. The Hill reports that McConnell’s Kentucky counterpart Rand Paul publicly doubted his office’s explanations that dehydration was behind the most recent freezing episode, which happened last week:

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Ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced that they have filed a lawsuit in Colorado to prevent Donald Trump from appearing as a presidential candidate on ballots in the state next year, arguing that his involvement in the January 6 insurrection is disqualifying.

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CREW made a similar case last year when the group successfully sued to remove Couy Griffin from his position as a county commissioner in New Mexico after he was found guilty of crimes related to his involvement in the Capitol attack. Today’s lawsuit was filed on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated voters in Colorado, and cites section 3 of the 14th amendment to the constitution, which states:

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No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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CREW argues that Trump “violated that oath by recruiting, inciting and encouraging a violent mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a futile attempt to remain in office.”

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“We aren’t bringing this case to make a point, we’re bringing it because it is necessary to defend our republic both today and in the future,” said Noah Bookbinder, the group’s president. “While it is unprecedented to bring this type of case against a former president, January 6th was an unprecedented attack that is exactly the kind of event the framers of the 14th Amendment wanted to build protections in case of. You don’t break the glass unless there’s an emergency.”

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Once a swing state, Colorado has become increasingly Democratic in recent elections. CREW signaled that its lawsuit will be the first of several to keep the former president from appearing on ballots next year, despite his ongoing presidential campaign that polls show is the most popular among Republican voters.

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“Based on its laws, the calendar, and our courageous set of plaintiffs and witnesses, Colorado is a good venue to bring this first case, but it will not be the last,” the group said.

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The judge presiding over E Jean Carroll’s second civil defamation case against Donald Trump said a forthcoming trial will only determine the damages she is to receive from the former president, in a major victory for the writer.

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Politico obtained a copy of the judgment:

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Earlier this year, Carroll prevailed in her first lawsuit against Trump when a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her, and ordered him to pay $5m in damages. According to Reuters, the second suit Carroll filed accused Trump of defaming her by denying in 2019 that he had raped her in the mid-1990s.

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Because of the jury’s finding earlier this year, New York-based federal judge Lewis Kaplan found that Trump made his 2019 statements with “actual malice”, and a jury will only need to decide how much in damages he should pay.

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Last month, the same judge dismissed a counterclaim filed by Trump against Carroll, an advice columnist.

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In an interview with the Associated Press, Kamala Harris broke the White House’s relative silence on the prosecutions of Donald Trump and others for trying to overturn the 2020 election, and said those responsible for the campaign should be held accountable.

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“Let the evidence, the facts, take it where it may,” the vice-president in an interview held during a trip to Indonesia, where she is attending a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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“I spent the majority of my career as a prosecutor,” said Harris, a former attorney general of California. “I believe that people should be held accountable under the law. And when they break the law, there should be accountability.”

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Biden and other top White House officials have generally stayed mum as prosecutors have indicted Trump for the Mar-a-Lago documents and his campaign to overturn the 2020 election. Two of the cases Trump is facing were brought by Jack Smith, a special counsel appointed by the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, whom Biden nominated for the job.

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According to CNN, investigators from special counsel Jack Smith’s office are asking witnesses about fundraising done by Donald Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell, and whether it was used to fund efforts to breach voting systems in four swing states:

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According to sources, witnesses interviewed by Smith’s prosecutors in recent weeks were asked about Powell’s role in the hunt for evidence of voter fraud after the 2020 election, including how her nonprofit group, Defending the Republic, provided money to fund those efforts.

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Powell promoted Defending the Republic as a non-profit focused on funding post-election legal challenges by Trump’s team as it disputed results in key states Biden had won. Those challenges and fundraising efforts underpinning them were all based on the premise that evidence of widespread voter fraud was already in hand.

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But according to documents reviewed by CNN and witness testimony obtained by the House select committee that investigated January, 6, 2021, the group was used to fund a desperate search to retroactively back-up baseless claims that Trump’s lawyers had already put forward in failed lawsuits challenging the results in several states.

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A series of invoices and communications obtained by election integrity groups including The Coalition for Good Governance and American Oversight show Defending the Republic contributed millions of dollars toward the push to access voting equipment in key states.

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In a court filing after her indictment in Georgia, Powell denied involvement in the Coffee County breach but acknowledged that “a non-profit she founded” paid the forensics firm hired to examine voting systems there.

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Smith’s investigators have also dived deep into the bewildering conspiracy theories that Trump allies pedaled following his election loss to try to convince his supporters that the polls were rigged:

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Smith’s team has specifically asked witnesses about certain conspiracy theories pushed by Powell including that Dominion Voting Systems had ties to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and featured software he used to rig his own election. The software company, Smartmatic, has previously said the turnout in those Venezuelan elections, not the voting system, was manipulated.

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Both Dominion and Smartmatic have said that they are competitors with no corporate links, knocking down the claim pushed by Powell.

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One witness who met with Smith’s team earlier last month, former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, spoke at length about how Trump allies accessed voting systems in Antrim County, Michigan, shortly after Election Day. Kerik also discussed the origins of a theory that voting machines could switch votes from one candidate to another, according to his lawyer Tim Parlatore.

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Kerik also acknowledged the breach of voting systems in Coffee County during his interview with federal prosecutors, Parlatore told CNN, adding that while his client raised the topic, the conversation did not delve into specifics.

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Kerik and another witness who met with Smith’s team in recent weeks were both asked if Powell was ever able to back-up her various claims of fraud, including conspiracy theories that foreign countries had hacked voting equipment.

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Both were also asked about Defending the Republic and how it was used as a source of funding efforts to find evidence of voter fraud, sources told CNN.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. New reports have emerged in recent days that offer more details of the legal peril that Donald Trump has found himself in. Weeks after he indicted Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, CNN reports that special counsel Jack Smith is continuing his investigation, focusing in particular on attorney Sidney Powell’s activities in Georgia. Powell was last month among the 19 people – Trump included – who were charged by Atlanta-area district attorney Fani Willis in a racketeering indictment over the campaign to block Joe Biden from winning the state’s electoral votes.

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Separately, ABC News reports this morning that another attorney for Trump, Evan Corcoran, specifically warned the president that if he did not comply with the government’s efforts to retrieve classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, the FBI could search the property. But then another attorney for the former president warned Corcoran that if he continued to press him, Trump is “going to go ballistic”. In June of this year, Smith indicted Trump and his aides on charges related to the documents hidden at the resort.

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Here’s what’s happening today:

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• Officials from border security agencies will appear before a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee to testify about the touchy subject of asylum law at 2.30pm eastern time.

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• Secretary of state Antony Blinken snuck away to Kyiv for a surprise visit. Follow our live blog for all the latest news from Ukraine.

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• White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters at 1pm.

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It’s 6pm ET. Right here’s a recap of at present’s developments:

• Federal prosecutors are looking for to deliver a brand new indictment in opposition to Hunter Biden by the top of September, in response to courtroom paperwork. The precise costs the president’s son would face weren’t instantly clear, however he has been underneath investigation in Delaware on gun and tax costs.

• Donald Trump is making “each day extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” within the federal legal case coping with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, attorneys for particular counsel Jack Smith stated in a courtroom submitting.

• A watchdog group is suing to take away Trump from the 2024 presidential poll, saying he violated the structure and is disqualified from holding future workplace. The lawsuit is to this point one of many strongest challenges to Trump’s eligibility to hunt re-election.

• Trump ought to “completely” be held accountable in courtroom for trying to overturn the 2020 election and galvanizing the January 6 assault on Congress if the proof proves it, stated Kamala Harris, talking after a former chief of a far-right group concerned within the riot was sentenced to 22 years in jail.

• The decide presiding over the Georgia election subversion case denied Kenneth Chesebro’s request to separate his case from Sidney Powell, a co-defendant within the case. Each Powell and Chesebro’s trials will start on 23 October.

• Mitch McConnell rejected hypothesis about his future as Republican chief within the US Senate, telling reporters: “I’m going to complete my time period as chief and I’m going to complete my Senate time period.” The remarks got here amid intense hypothesis concerning the 81-year-old Kentucky senator’s well being, after two latest freezes in entrance of reporters, one on Capitol Hill in July and one other in McConnell’s house state final week.

• A federal decide ordered Texas to take away floating limitations that have been positioned within the Rio Grande to dam migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, in a tentative win for the Biden administration. Texas governor Greg Abbott stated the state would enchantment.

• Democrats anxious about Joe Biden’s re-election prospects are “fucking bedwetters” and mustn’t fear a lot, the previous Obama marketing campaign supervisor Jim Messina stated. Polling exhibits Trump is the clear leader within the Republican race to face Biden subsequent 12 months. Polling additionally exhibits Trump and Biden in an in depth race, and Biden’s approval ratings stay stubbornly low, even relating to an financial system most observers take into account to be in fine condition.

Choose orders Texas to maneuver anti-migrant buoys in Rio Grande

A federal decide ordered Texas to take away floating limitations that have been positioned within the Rio Grande to dam migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, in a tentative win for the Biden adminstration.

The US district courtroom decide David Ezra ordered Texas to relocate the buoys, at the moment close to town of Eagle Cross, to an embankment on the Texas facet of the river by 15 September.

The order got here as a part of a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration in opposition to Texas, who argued that the barrier illegally disrupts navigation and was put in with out permission from the US military corps of engineers.

“Governor Abbott introduced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program underneath which Texas constructed the floating barrier,” Ezra wrote in a 42-page order.

Sadly for Texas, permission is strictly what federal regulation requires earlier than putting in obstructions within the nation’s navigable waters.

He added that the state “didn’t current any credible proof that the buoy barrier as put in has considerably curtailed unlawful immigration throughout the Rio Grande River”.

The ruling is a setback for the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, who stated the state would enchantment. He stated:

At present’s courtroom choice merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping as much as do the job that he ought to have been doing all alongside.

The previous Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee warned that if Donald Trump is prevented from successful within the 2024 presidential election, then it will likely be the final election “determined by ballots slightly than bullets”.

Huckabee, in an episode on his TBN present, argued that the previous president’s numerous authorized battles are a part of a political motivated scheme from the Biden administration. He stated:

Right here’s the issue: if these techniques find yourself working to maintain Trump from successful and even working in 2024, it’ll be the final American election determined by ballots slightly than bullets.

He additionally accused the justice division, IRS and FBI of “conspiring to cover the Biden household crimes, whereas on a regular basis being obsessive about charging Donald Trump with crimes”.

Martin Pengelly

Mitch McConnell is the longest-serving Republican occasion chief in Senate historical past, in place since 2007. His energy over his caucus has not often been questioned however well being scares together with the freezes and a collection of falls have stoked hypothesis about whether or not he’ll end his seventh six-year time period, which ends in January 2027.

Earlier, in an indication of rising uncertainty in Senate Republican ranks, McConnell’s fellow Kentuckian, Rand Paul, forged doubt on the assurances from congressional doctor.

Paul, as soon as a practising opthalmologist, told reporters:

Once you get dehydrated you don’t have moments when your eyes look within the distance with a vacant look and also you’re kind of mainly unconscious together with your eyes open. That’s not a symptom of dehydration.

Dr Brian P Monahanhas additionally stated “a number of medical evaluations” of McConnell included “mind MRI imaging, EEG [electroencephalogram] examine and consultations with a number of neurologists for a complete neurology evaluation”.

“It’s a medical mistake to say somebody doesn’t have a seizure dysfunction as a result of they’ve a standard EEG,” Paul stated.

My level is that I’m simply making an attempt to counter the misinformation from the Senate physician. It’s mainly not plausible to return up and say that what’s occurring is dehydration. It makes it worse.

Paul additionally stated his remarks had “nothing to do with [McConnell’s] health to serve and whether or not he’s doing a superb job or a nasty job”.

Martin Pengelly

Mitch McConnell rejected hypothesis about his future as Republican chief within the US Senate, telling reporters:

I’m going to complete my time period as chief and I’m going to complete my Senate time period.

Mitch McConnell says he has “no bulletins to make” about stepping down or retiring as Senate minority chief after latest well being scares:

“I’m gonna end my time period as chief and I’m gonna end my Senate time period.” pic.twitter.com/Osade57gBM

— The Recount (@therecount) September 6, 2023

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Mitch McConnell says he has “no bulletins to make” about stepping down or retiring as Senate minority chief after latest well being scares:

“I’m gonna end my time period as chief and I’m gonna end my Senate time period.” pic.twitter.com/Osade57gBM

— The Recount (@therecount) September 6, 2023

The remarks on Wednesday got here amid intense hypothesis concerning the 81-year-old Kentucky senator’s well being, after two latest freezes in entrance of reporters, one on Capitol Hill in July and one other in McConnell’s house state final week.

“I feel Dr [Brian P] Monahan lined [the question of my health] totally,” McConnell stated, relating to two public letters through which the congressional doctor has mentioned attainable causes of the freezes and cleared his affected person to proceed working.

The primary letter stated McConnell is likely to be struggling the after-effects of a concussion, sustained in a fall in March, or from dehydration. The second letter stated McConnell was not affected by a “seizure dysfunction”, a stroke or a “motion dysfunction similar to Parkinson’s illness”. That letter additionally referred to as McConnell’s freeze in Kentucky final week a “temporary episode”.

“I’ve no announcement to make on that topic,” McConnell stated.

The precise costs Hunter Biden would face weren’t instantly clear, however appeared associated to a gun possession cost through which he was accused of illegally possessing a gun.

The newest improvement comes a month after Lawyer Common Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss particular counsel to supervise the continuing investigation into the president’s son, who has additionally been underneath investigation by federal prosecutors for his enterprise dealings.

Hunter Biden has stated in courtroom filings that prosecutors reneged on a plea deal that will have resolved the costs in his tax and firearms case.

The particular counsel appointed to supervise the federal investigation into Hunter Biden intends to hunt a grand jury indictment of the president’s son earlier than the top of September, his workplace stated in a new filing.

Particular counsel David Weiss’ workplace wrote:

The Speedy Trial Act requires that the Authorities receive the return of an indictment by a grand jury by Friday, September 29, 2023, on the earliest. The Authorities intends to hunt the return of an indictment on this case earlier than that date.

Federal prosecutors say they plan to indict Hunter Biden by 29 September

In a courtroom submitting, federal prosecutors have stated they plan to indict Hunter Biden by 29 September, Reuters studies. It’s unclear what costs he’ll face.

The president’s son has been underneath federal investigation since 2018 for potential violations of tax and gun legal guidelines. In July, he was anticipated to plead responsible to costs associated to failing to declare some revenue, and enter a diversion program to resolve a gun cost, however the deal unexpectedly fell aside amid scrutiny from a federal decide in Delaware, and after prosecutors made clear that the investigation into Biden’s enterprise dealings stays ongoing.

The well being considerations surrounding high GOP senator Mitch McConnell and the second-highest-ranking Republican within the Home of Representatives Steve Scalise may have an effect on delicate negotiations geared toward retaining the federal government funded past the top of September, the Guardian’s Mary Yang studies:

Lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill as they race to succeed in a short-term funding deal by the top of the month to maintain federal businesses open and avert a authorities shutdown. However worries concerning the well being of two high Republicans loom over the high-stakes talks as politicians’ age has grow to be a rising concern.

Talking to reporters final week in Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, the 81-year-old Senate Republican chief, appeared to freeze for 30 seconds after calling the opportunity of a shutdown “a fairly large mess”. The incident raised questions on his well being and mirrored an earlier incident the place he all of a sudden paused for a number of seconds whereas chatting with reporters on the US Capitol.

In July, McConnell stopped mid-sentence throughout a weekly Republican information convention, stoking considerations about his capacity to steer months after sustaining a concussion from a fall that stored him away from Capitol Hill for six weeks.

There’s “no proof” McConnell skilled a stroke throughout final week’s episode or has a seizure or motion dysfunction, similar to Parkinson’s illness, Brian Monahan, the Capitol attending doctor, wrote in a letter to McConnell on Tuesday. Monahan stated he didn’t suggest remedy modifications.

“I feel we’ll find yourself with a short-term congressional decision, in all probability into December, as we wrestle to determine precisely what the federal government spending degree goes to be for subsequent 12 months,” McConnell advised reporters in Kentucky. “The speaker and the president reached an settlement, which I supported, in reference to elevating the debt ceiling to set spending ranges for subsequent 12 months.”

He added that the Home then handed spending payments under these ranges, however “that’s not going to be replicated within the Senate”.

Prosecution, protection relaxation in Navarro contempt of Congress trial

Simply over 5 hours after attorneys made their opening arguments in former Trump White Home official Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress trial, Politico studies that each the protection and prosecutions have rested their circumstances:

DONE: Prosecution *and* Navarro protection have rested (the latter with out calling witnesses). All that's left is closing arguments. That can begin tomorrow AM.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 6, 2023

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DONE: Prosecution *and* Navarro protection have rested (the latter with out calling witnesses). All that is left is closing arguments. That can begin tomorrow AM.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 6, 2023

That leaves closing arguments as the one unfinished enterprise, which is able to happen tomorrow. After that, the jury is anticipated to begin deliberations. Navarro was indicted for defying subpoenas from the congressional committee that investigated the January 6 rebellion final 12 months.

Earlier within the trial at present, Politico studies that prosecutors referred to as three witnesses who labored for the committee and testified concerning the course of for issuing Navarro the subpoenas, and the way he didn’t reply to them. The protection referred to as no witnesses.

Right here’s footage of reporters urgent Mitch McConnell for extra particulars about his well being following two cases the place he was briefly unable to answer questions in public – and the Republican Senate minority chief declining to offer any:

Sen. Min. Chief McConnell says a letter from Capitol Attending Doctor Brian Monahan, saying he's match to serve after latest freeze-ups, “ought to reply any cheap query” about his well being:

“Dr. Monahan lined the topic totally … I don't have something so as to add to it.” pic.twitter.com/rOuAKn1dki

— The Recount (@therecount) September 6, 2023

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Sen. Min. Chief McConnell says a letter from Capitol Attending Doctor Brian Monahan, saying he is match to serve after latest freeze-ups, “ought to reply any cheap query” about his well being:

“Dr. Monahan lined the topic totally … I haven’t got something so as to add to it.” pic.twitter.com/rOuAKn1dki

— The Recount (@therecount) September 6, 2023

Mitch McConnell says he has “no bulletins to make” about stepping down or retiring as Senate minority chief after latest well being scares:

“I’m gonna end my time period as chief and I’m gonna end my Senate time period.” pic.twitter.com/Osade57gBM

— The Recount (@therecount) September 6, 2023

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Mitch McConnell says he has “no bulletins to make” about stepping down or retiring as Senate minority chief after latest well being scares:

“I’m gonna end my time period as chief and I’m gonna end my Senate time period.” pic.twitter.com/Osade57gBM

— The Recount (@therecount) September 6, 2023

In remarks to reporters gathered on the Capitol, high Senate Republican Mitch McConnell declined to share additional particulars about his well being troubles, however stated he had no plans to step down as minority chief, or resign his seat:

McConnell punts when requested straight by me twice on cam what’s afflicting him. Says he intends to complete his Senate time period and his time as Chief. McConnell says all the pieces is within the letter yesterday from the Capitol Attending Doctor

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 6, 2023

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McConnell punts when requested straight by me twice on cam what’s afflicting him. Says he intends to complete his Senate time period and his time as Chief. McConnell says all the pieces is within the letter yesterday from the Capitol Attending Doctor

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 6, 2023

McConnell says he’ll end his time period as chief in addition to his Senate time period, which is on the poll in 2026 pic.twitter.com/YSO7dVzWGa

— Nolan D. McCaskill (@NolanDMcCaskill) September 6, 2023

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Listed below are extra particulars from CNN of what Mitch McConnell advised Republican senators in a closed-door assembly relating to latest considerations about his well being:

McConnell went into “nice element” about what occurred when he froze twice and the intensive exams he had carried out — and stated he had “no cognitive points,” in response to Ron Johnson.

“He stated he has no purpose to to not proceed as chief,” Johnson stated. “He’s completely succesful.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2023

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McConnell went into “nice element” about what occurred when he froze twice and the intensive exams he had carried out — and stated he had “no cognitive points,” in response to Ron Johnson.

“He stated he has no purpose to to not proceed as chief,” Johnson stated. “He’s completely succesful.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2023

A number of senators stated they have been happy together with his clarification.

“I used to be happy,” GOP Sen. Todd Younger stated

Sen. Rand Paul, who has been skeptical of McConnell’s clarification, declined to remark.

“I don’t like to enter private conversations in our convention,” he stated.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2023

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A number of senators stated they have been happy together with his clarification.

“I used to be happy,” GOP Sen. Todd Younger stated

Sen. Rand Paul, who has been skeptical of McConnell’s clarification, declined to remark.

“I don’t like to enter private conversations in our convention,” he stated.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2023

Throughout lunch, McConnell went over his well being historical past and stated he was given a “clear invoice of well being” by medical doctors, in response to John Kennedy. McConnell stated he has solely skilled freezing episodes twice — and so they each occurred to be in entrance of cameras.
No questions have been requested

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2023

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Throughout lunch, McConnell went over his well being historical past and stated he was given a “clear invoice of well being” by medical doctors, in response to John Kennedy. McConnell stated he has solely skilled freezing episodes twice — and so they each occurred to be in entrance of cameras.
No questions have been requested

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2023

The 81-year-old Senate Republican chief attracted fairly the viewers when he spoke to reporters this afternoon:

.@LeaderMcConnell talks to reporters, emphasizing the necessity to preserve U.S. help for Ukraine in upcoming funding measures. “I hope the vast majority of my colleagues will really feel the identical manner.” pic.twitter.com/ym1PAJrfYs

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 6, 2023

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Donald Trump’s former chief of employees Mark Meadows has made his personal request to be tried individually from the opposite 18 defendants within the Georgia election subversion case.

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Simply after a Georgia decide DENIES pro-Trump legal professionals' Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell's bids to sever their trials, Mark Meadows recordsdata his personal movement to separate his case.

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— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 6, 2023

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Meadows, who held the place within the final month’s of Trump’s time period, together with when he was making an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss, can also be trying to get his case tried in federal courtroom. Authorized specialists say that would end in a jury pool that skews extra conservative.

Final week, Meadows took the stand and testified in a listening to to find out wether that request will likely be granted.