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Graham announces he won’t vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination
CNN — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina announced Thursday that he will not vote for President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite supporting her nomination to a previous Senate-confirmed position last year. “I will oppose her and I will vote no,” Graham said in a speech on the Senate floor. …
‘I’m saving her for Ginsburg’: who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s likely supreme court pick? | Law
When Christine Baglow moved from New Orleans to South Bend, Indiana, two years ago, she found herself at a dinner party with a woman with a formidable resume: former supreme court clerk, professor at Notre Dame Law School, a judge on the US district court of appeals for the seventh circuit. The woman was Amy …
‘I will fight!’: mourners’ vow at supreme court vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg | US news
On a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” It was a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice more renowned for her dissents than her majority opinions, including on the Bush …
Supreme court: Democrats rally in bid to stop Trump filling Ginsburg’s seat | US news
The resistance movement forged in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency now faces perhaps its greatest challenge: keeping open a supreme court vacancy that, if filled, will cement a conservative majority for decades to come. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s most senior and celebrated liberal, set the stage for a furious …
US Senate leaders reach deal with White House on $2tn coronavirus package | World news
US Senate leaders have reached a deal with Trump administration officials on a nearly $2tn stimulus package to help rescue the American economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic as Donald Trump considers easing restrictions aimed at combating the contagion. After days of around-the-clock negotiations between senators and administration officials, a bipartisan compromise was struck over …
Trump’s ‘troubling’ promise to foreign leader prompts House panel briefing – live | US news
10.18am EDT 10:18 Emily England Clyburn, the wife House majority Jim Clyburn, has died at the age of 80. They met after he was jailed in a civil rights protest and were married for nearly 60 years. “Emily Clyburn was a champion of equality and opportunity who made a difference for countless young people in …
Trump blasts Fed leaders as ‘boneheads’ over interest rates – live | US news
10.19am EDT 10:19 Trump mentions scrapped Taliban peace talks at Pentagon’s 9/11 memorial ceremony The president has just finished speaking at the Pentagon’s memorial ceremony for the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It’s safe to say he likely went off the teleprompter a bit. Most notably, Trump invoked his scrapped plans to hold peace …
Deutsche Bank says it has some of Trump’s tax returns – live news | US news
Riffing on the newspaper’s predicament, David Karpf, an associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, poked fun at Stephens on Twitter on Monday evening. The post received nine likes and zero retweets. What followed was as close to the perfect Streisand effect as one could imagine. Stephens, who was not tagged …
Libra: US Congress asks Facebook to pause development | Technology
The US Congress has asked Facebook to pause development on its Libra cryptocurrency until lawmakers have had more time to investigate the ramifications of the company’s actions. In a letter from the Democratic heads of the house committee on financial services and its subcommittees, the legislators ask the company to “immediately cease implementation plans”. “Because …
‘The world is watching’: US house condemns Trump over racist comments – video | Global
The US House of Representatives voted to condemn Donald Trump for ‘racist comments’ against four minority Democratic congresswomen, a symbolic vote aimed at shaming the president and the fellow Republicans who stood by him. ‘The world is watching, and the world is in shock,’ says Democrat Karen Bass from California, ‘His comments were beneath the …