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President Biden Joe Biden Former chairman of Wisconsin GOP party signals he will comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena Romney tests positive for coronavirus Pelosi sidesteps progressives' March 1 deadline for Build Back Better MORE and Vice President Harris are marking the 77 th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by meeting with survivors of the Holocaust. A White House official said Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff Doug Emhoff The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - Actor John Krasinski films outside White House Biden, Harris meet with Holocaust survivors to mark annual remembrance day The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - Biden faces Ukraine decision amid Russia aggression MORE met with Ruth Cohen, an Auschwitz survivor, on Wednesday in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The private meeting took place in the vice president’s ceremonial office, the official … [Read more...] about Biden, Harris meet with Holocaust survivors to mark annual remembrance day

For more than three decades now, since the failed nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987, nominations of new justices to the court have occasionally become political street fights. But President Biden's forthcoming nomination of a Black woman to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer likely won't be. According to conservative legal scholars and aides to senators on Capitol Hill, the GOP will likely put up little more than token resistance to whomever Biden eventually nominates. One factor in their thinking is plain: Democrats control the evenly divided Senate , with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. As a practical matter, the GOP can't block whoever Biden nominates. "Elections have consequences," Senator Lindsey Graham , a Republican from South Carolina and the ranking minority member on the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement on Wednesday, "and that is most evident when it comes to fulfilling vacancies on the Supreme Court." … [Read more...] about Why the GOP won’t put up much fight over Biden’s SCOTUS nominee

The incoming director at a law and research organization at Georgetown University apologized on Friday for his tweets criticizing President Biden Joe Biden Former chairman of Wisconsin GOP party signals he will comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena Romney tests positive for coronavirus Pelosi sidesteps progressives' March 1 deadline for Build Back Better MORE 's commitment to selecting the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Ilya Shapiro , the current vice president and director at the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute who is set to assume the role of executive director for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution on Feb. 1, said the appointment could wind up being "a lesser black woman" in a tweet on Wednesday. The tweet drew widespread rebuke. ADVERTISEMENT "I apologize. I meant no offense, but it was an inartful tweet. I have taken it down," he tweeted . After news broke that Justice Stephen Breyer … [Read more...] about Incoming Georgetown Law administrator apologizes after backlash over Supreme Court tweets

As Russia beats the drums of war, American leadership has once again been put to the test. And we’re failing. Although 8,500 U.S. troops are now on alert to deploy at short notice , more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have already been deployed on Ukraine’s border. President Joe Biden’s State Department recently ordered the departure of embassy staff family members from Ukraine, acknowledging the very real threat of invasion — or, if you will , a “minor incursion.” Ukraine may be the latest flashpoint in geopolitical posturing, but the issue at hand really isn’t about Ukraine. It’s about Poland in 1939. It’s about appeasing military powers that need not be appeased. It’s about Taiwan, whose people contend with Chinese aggression on a daily basis. It’s about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) flying dozens of warplanes toward Taiwan in a blatant show of force. It’s about every commitment that America has ever made to people facing oppression and fearing war. It’s about … [Read more...] about BACKER: Provoked By Russia, Biden’s America Leads From Behind

WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday confirmed that President Joe Biden is considering a South Carolina federal judge and favorite of House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., as a potential candidate for the Supreme Court. The statement is the first time the White House has publicly confirmed a name under consideration to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced this week that he would retire after the end of the current court term. At the same time, the White House indicated that Judge J. Michelle Childs is one of several people under consideration by the president, who has pledged to live up to his campaign promise of nominating the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Childs is a South Carolina judge who in December was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, considered the second-most influential court in the country and often a steppingstone to the Supreme Court. But her confirmation hearing for the D.C. Circuit, scheduled in … [Read more...] about White House confirms South Carolina judge is under consideration for Supreme Court

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had to endure a stinging rebuke over her election fraud claims on a radio show from a disgruntled caller—and it shows that U.S. democracy "stands a chance," according to CNN 's Jim Acosta . The network's anchor and correspondent appeared to relish the "earful" that the Republican congresswoman got during a phone in on the Georgia station UCTV. In a segment on Friday , Acosta played a clip of Greene pursing her lips as one caller called her "an embarrassment to the state of Georgia." Another caller lambasted her on air for her support of the baseless claim that the 2020 election that ex-President Donald Trump lost had been marred by fraud. The unnamed woman took Greene to task saying that "you all refuse to accept Biden," and that "maybe we didn't like Trump, but he won." "You will not accept the fact that Joe Biden won," the caller continued as Greene sat quietly, "and that is the whole thing. You're not gonna accept … [Read more...] about CNN’s Jim Acosta relishes Marjorie Taylor Greene being told Trump lost

Republicans are pushing President Biden Joe Biden Former chairman of Wisconsin GOP party signals he will comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena Romney tests positive for coronavirus Pelosi sidesteps progressives' March 1 deadline for Build Back Better MORE to be tougher on Russia over its aggression toward Ukraine, but their isolationist far-right flank is denying them unity on the issue. Some of former President Trump Donald Trump Former chairman of Wisconsin GOP party signals he will comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena Overnight Defense & National Security — Pentagon tells Russia to stand down Billionaire GOP donor maxed out to Manchin following his Build Back Better opposition MORE ’s closest allies have questioned why the U.S. would side with Kyiv over Moscow at all and expressed skepticism that it’s worth pouring American resources into the conflict. Top GOP leaders espousing the party’s traditional hawkish views have urged … [Read more...] about GOP faces divisions over siding with Ukraine against Russia

Presented by Facebook To view past editions of The Hill's 12:30 Report, click here: https://bit.ly/30ARS1U To receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox, please sign up here: http://bit.ly/2UoupvN --> A midday take on what's happening in politics and how to have a sense of humor about it.* *Ha. Haha. Hahah. Sniff. Haha. Sniff. Ha--breaks down crying hysterically. HAPPENING TODAY *Looks around* well, that was a creepy coincidence: via GIPHY President Biden Joe Biden Former chairman of Wisconsin GOP party signals he will comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena Romney tests positive for coronavirus Pelosi sidesteps progressives' March 1 deadline for Build Back Better MORE just landed in Pittsburgh, where he is scheduled to deliver remarks on his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. Well, earlier this morning, a snow-covered bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed (!) Photo of the collapsed bridge : … [Read more...] about The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – Actor John Krasinski films outside White House

As left-wing Democrats sour on Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, they are finding new allies — and donors — in Republicans. Ken Langone, a co-founder of The Home Depot and a prominent GOP donor, donated $5,000 to Manchin’s leadership PAC in December 2021, the most an individual can give to a political action committee in a year, CNBC reported . This donation came right after Manchin effectively killed President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, infuriating some of his fellow Democratic lawmakers. “I don’t see leadership any place in this country,” Langone told CNBC before he made his contribution. “I’m going to have one of the biggest fundraisers I’ve ever had for him. He’s special. He’s precious. He’s a great American.” Manchin has also received praise from some Senate Republican colleagues in recent months, especially after he and Sinema refused to go along with their party’s effort to rework the filibuster to pass Democrats’ voting bills . … [Read more...] about Republicans Line Up Behind Manchin And Sinema Amid Their Independent Streak

After farming for over six years, Carolina Mueller has learned how to adapt to the fickle and sometimes unpredictable weather patterns she has experienced over the last several seasons. Even this winter, when harsher frosts were expected, Mueller, 30, who works at a farm owned and run by her partner in Bastrop, Texas, about 30 miles from Austin, prepared with the rest of the farm's staff by throwing row fabric covers to protect crops from the frost, putting out extra feed for animals and stocking up on propane tanks for the greenhouse. But a deep freeze — the first in decades — caused a massive shutdown of the state's electrical grid in February, rendering propane heating and water pumps useless as Mueller and her partner were stuck in Austin for a full week because of dangerous road conditions. The couple finally returned to rows of dead crops, as well as other damage totaling over $30,000, including loss of future income. "It was a really eye-opening experience for a … [Read more...] about How young farmers are navigating climate change on their farms