More than 1,500 amendments were filed to the bill, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy will need to navigate between the demands of his most conservative members and the need for Democratic votes in order to get a bill ultimately signed into law.įormer Fox News host Tucker Carlson will host the first GOP presidential forum for the 2024 primary season this week, but notably missing from the lineup is the current GOP frontrunner, former president Donald Trump.
The House rules committee held a hearing on the $874bn annual defense policy bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff pressed public institutions, including colleges and libraries, to buy copies of her books when she traveled there for speaking engagements, according to an AP report. Tuberville was “wrong, wrong, wrong”, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said, while Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said “white supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country.” Joe Biden’s pick to become the country’s top military officer, Gen Charles “CQ” Brown, warned senators that an indefinite blockade of senior officer promotions could have a far-reaching impact across the US armed forces.Īlabama senator Tommy Tuberville has tripled down on his belief that not all white nationalists should be labelled as “racists”, just a day after he said the definition of a “white nationalist” was a matter of “opinion”. Trump asked the federal judge overseeing the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case to indefinitely postpone setting a trial date in court filings and suggested, at a minimum, that any scheduled trial should not take place until after the 2024 presidential election. The hearing, originally scheduled for 14 July, will now occur on 18 July. The federal judge overseeing the case involving former Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving office has agreed to delay an upcoming hearing in the case.
The district attorney of Fulton county, Fani Willis, has indicated she expects to obtain indictments between the end of July and the middle of August. A grand jury selected in Georgia on Tuesday is expected to decide later this summer whether Donald Trump and associates will face criminal charges over their attempt to overturn the former president’s defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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