After controversial nomination hearings that saw Republican senators harass her for her critical race theory and record of convictions of child sex offenders, Ketanji Brown Jackson got a crucial supporter: Senator Kohn who announced he would vote to confirm the first candidate for Joe Biden’s Supreme Court. The news guarantees Ms. Jackson’s confirmation. He has already secured the support of West Virginia Democratic Party Joe Manchin, who was considered the most likely of his party’s 50 senators to turn down his support. Mr Biden, meanwhile, has unveiled his 2023 budget proposal. It calls for lower federal deficits, more money for law enforcement and more funding for education, public health and housing. Includes a proposal for a minimum tax on the super-rich that could hit Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at $ 50 billion and $ 35 billion respectively. And more than a century after such legislation was first introduced, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that makes lynching a federal hate crime, condemning the “pure terror of imposing that not everyone belongs in America, not everyone is equal.” . »
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ICYMI: Biden Signs Law That Makes Lynching a Federal Hate Crime
Joe Biden yesterday signed a bill that makes lynching a federal hate crime, a measure he has been waiting to pass for more than a century. Named after Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal assassination in 1955 helped boost the civil rights movement, the bill faced only seven “no” votes in the House of Representatives and passed the Senate with unanimous consent. “From the bullets in Ahmaud Arbery’s back to the countless acts of violence, the countless victims both known and unknown; racial hatred is not an old problem, it is a persistent problem,” Biden said at the signing ceremony. “Hatred never goes away. It only hides, it hides under the rocks. Taking just a little oxygen, it roars again, screaming. “What stops it is all of us, not a few.” Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 13:39 1648642641
Susan Collins will vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson
In a development that confirms that the first candidate for the Supreme Court of Joe Biden will be confirmed, the Republican of Maine Susan Collins said that she will vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson when the vote for her position in the Senate comes. Ms. Brown Jackson has already secured the support of Joe Mancin, the Democratic senator who was considered the most likely to deny his support. Eric Garcia has the news: Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 13:17 1648640741
Analysis: How Joe Biden can bridge the gap in police funding
Joe Biden’s budget proposal for next fiscal year includes more than $ 3 billion in law enforcement, fulfilling the president’s promise to the State of the Union that he would fund, not refinance, the police. The move raises the prospect of a serious clash with the Democratic Party’s vocal and organized “defund” wing, but as Eric Garcia writes, the gap may not be bridged. Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 12:45 1648638912
ICYMI: Russia ‘fails to occupy Kyiv’, Ukrainian capital was ‘key target’, Pentagon says
Russian forces have failed in their mission to encircle and occupy Kyiv, leading to Moscow announcing that military action around the Ukrainian capital would be curtailed, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby made it clear during his remarks to the daily press that Russian forces had agreed with a journalist’s claim that the Russian army had been “defeated” on the outskirts of Kiev. “I said it in my opening statement. “They failed to take Kyiv,” Kirby told reporters. Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 12:15 1648637141
Was Biden’s blunder with Putin really wrong?
Roll Call’s John T. Bennett – late on The Independent – writes that the White House, not Joe Biden, messed up the Polish president’s speech this weekend, especially trying to “back down” his statement that Vladimir Putin “Cannot stay in power.” The White House had two choices: to make its statement – which seemed naive about the dynamics of regional power – or to stand by its boss and explain that it was calling for a Russian Spring, a la Arab Spring that ousted many hardliners. leaders in power in the last decade. This White House, once again, chose confusion. Instead of letting Joe become Joe, his staff turned a strong moment into a blunder … The president has twice stated what could be a true Biden Doctrine, once vaguely and then more clearly. Instead of violently making its boldest statement in its declared struggle against authoritarianism, the Biden team managed to construct a kaleidoscope of confusion. Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 11:45 1648634981
Biden approval for Covid-19 is relatively sound – by world standards
Joe Biden’s overall acceptance rates may not be in good shape these days, but to another extent, he’s obviously doing relatively well. According to a Morning Consult poll, the president enjoys a higher acceptance rate than many of his counterparts in other countries for handling the Covid-19 crisis. He has outperformed the leaders in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Australia and Spain, and even the Frenchman Emmanuel Macron – although he lags far behind India’s Narendra Modi and Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador. That said, his rating of 41 percent approval to 50 percent disapproval is obviously not very good in the absolute sense – and that it looks good by global standards says a lot about how governments have suffered from the pandemic. Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 11:09 1648632479
Al Sharpton on anti-lynching legislation
Speaking to MSNBC last night, veteran civil rights leader Al Sharpton spoke on the importance of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, signed by Joe Biden last night. “I was talking to the president and the vice president after the signing,” he said, “and to think that as soon as we sign it … to think that we had to get to 2022 to make lynching a federal crime. it’s a bittersweet day. “ Andrew Naughtie30 March 2022 10:27 1648629012
Trump dominates the GOP, ahead of Biden and Harris in the 2024 match poll
Former President Donald Trump would have won the 2024 election if it had taken place today, according to a new poll published this week in The Hill. The 45th president, who faces widespread responsibility for spreading false allegations about the recent presidential election that led to riots in the US Capitol, is slightly ahead of Joe Biden in a Harvard CAPS / Harris poll released Monday. Trump would have 47 percent of the vote, while 41 percent would support Biden. The gap between the two was well within the 12-point margin representing the current share of undecided voters. Read John Bowden’s full report Shweta Sharma30 March 2022 09:30 1648626312
US issues new travel warning to Russia, says Americans may be targeted
The US State Department has issued a new travel directive warning all its citizens not to travel to Russia, saying Americans could be “harassed” by government security officials in the country. This could include “detention and arbitrary enforcement of local law,” the department said, adding that there was also a risk that American mobility could be affected by “restricted flights to and from Russia.” Read Namita Singh’s full report Shweta Sharma30 March 2022 08:45 1648622771
Two former US officials assisting in the investigation of Trump ally Clark – report
Two top US Justice Department officials are assisting in the conduct of an ethics inquiry into the Washington legislature of their former colleague Jeffrey Boshert Clark, who allegedly tried to help reverse his defeat in the 2020 election, two sources told Reuters. Jeffrey Rosen, who has served as attorney general, and Richard Donoyu, his former acting deputy, have given interviews to the District of Columbia District Attorney’s Office in recent days, they said. The Bureau of Investigation, which investigates possible misconduct by Washington attorneys, is investigating whether Clark violated ethics prohibiting attorneys from engaging in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” when he asked two officials to send a letter. Shweta Sharma30 March 2022 07:46
