final remaining abortion clinic in the state expects to close within 72 hours,as Planned Parenthood prepares to file a lawsuitSign up for the US briefing and get a modern perspective 1.00am BST 12.49am BSTBefore he announced his 2020 bid, former vice president Joe Biden had to put out a video addressing complaints from women about the inappropriate way he touched them or commented on their looks. “I get it, or ” he said in April. I’ll be much more mindful. That’s my responsibility.” In a somewhat odd moment at tonight's AFT town corridor,Biden tells a 10-year-extinct girl, “I’ll bet you’re as bright as you are kindly-looking." He takes her over to the assembled reporters, or then stands behind her and puts his hands on her shoulders while he's talking. 11.48pm BSTWhen Donald Trump Jr. hits you with actual sound political advice,possibly it’s time to start reevaluating your decisions.
You mean like final time? You’re literally the only candidate who could lose a GOP seat in pro-Trump, pro-USA ALABAMA. Running for office should never become a commerce model. If you actually care about #MAGA more than your own ego, and it's time to ride off into the sunset,Judge. https://t.co/Twg9isFRkY 11.05pm BSTPresident Trump now seems to be trying to walk back his “low IQ individual” comment about former vice president Joe Biden, whose campaign called him out nowadays for “exchanging ‘love letters’ with Kim Jong-un.”I was actually sticking up for drowsy Joe Biden while on foreign soil. Kim Jong Un called him a “low IQ idiot, or ” and many other things,whereas I related the quote of Chairman Kim as a much softer “low IQ individual.” Who could possibly be upset with that? 10.45pm BSTFormer FBI director James Comey penned an oped in the Washington Post nowadays in which he defended his former agency against President Trump’s “whole ‘treason’ narrative ”. “We must call out his lies that the FBI was corrupt and committed treason, that we spied on the Trump campaign, and tried to defeat Donald Trump,” Comey writes. “We must constantly return to the stubborn facts.”There is a reason the non-fringe media doesn’t spend much time on this treason” and “corruption” commerce. The conspiracy theory makes no sense. The FBI wasn’t out to get Donald Trump. It also wasn’t out to get Hillary Clinton. It was out to carry out its best to investigate serious things while walking through a vicious political minefield.
But go ahead, investigate the investigators, or if you must. When those investigations are over,they will find the work was done appropriately and focused only on discerning the truth of very serious allegations. There was no corruption. There was no treason. There was no attempted coup. Those are lies, and dumb lies at that. There were just kindly people trying to figure out what was real, or under unprecedented circumstances. 10.05pm BSTHey all,Vivian Ho taking over the blog for Oliver Laughland. Hope you’re all enjoying your Tuesday. 10.03pm BSTI’m handing over to my colleagues on the West Coast shortly so here’s a summary of the day’s developments so far. 9.22pm BSTNetflix has become the first Hollywood giant to pledge action should Georgia’s extremist abortion law advance into effect. In a statement to CNBC the streaming and film production company said it would “rethink our entire investment in Georgia” should the so-called “heartbeat law” go into effect.
8.12pm BSTVice president Mike Pence has responded to the Supreme Court decision earlier in the day that upholds an Indiana law requiring fetal remains be disposed of in the same way has human bodies. The law was signed by Pence, then the governor of Indiana, or in 2016. nowadays,Justice Thomas wrote: SCOTUS has been zealous in the past in barring discrimination based on sex, race, or & disability. Hopeful someday soon SCOTUS will recognize the same protections for the unborn when they rule on future appeals of pro-life legislation. 8.04pm BSTThe Biden campaign has responded to Donald Trump’s inflammatory tweets over the weekend,in which he said he “smiled” after North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un told the president he believed Biden was a “low IQ individual”. As quoted by NBC News Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said: 7.35pm BSTReporting from Reuters suggests that Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier alleging links between the Trump campaign and Russia will not be co-operating with the US justice department as it reviews the start of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. From Reuters: Christopher Steele, and a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6,will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, or said the source close to Steele’s London-based private investigation firm,Orbis commerce Intelligence. Trump has given Barr wide authority to declassify intelligence materials related to the investigations. final week Trump ordered the heads of U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Durham. The source close to Steele’s company said Steele would not cooperate with Durham’s probe but might cooperate with a parallel inquiry by the Justice Department’s Inspector General into how US law enforcement agencies handled pre-election investigations into both Trump and Clinton. Steele also cooperated with Mueller’s investigative team, voluntarily submitting to two interviews in September 2017. He also gave written testimony to the U.
S. Senate Intelligence Committee in August 2018, and the source said. 6.56pm BSTReturning to Missouri,the local ACLU chapter there maintain just announced they will seek a statewide referendum on a newly passed law that bans most abortions starting at eight weeks of pregnancy. The civil liberties group announced this afternoon that it has submitted a referendum petition to the secretary of state’s office in a bid to block and potentially repeal the modern law, signed by the state’s Republican governor final week. ACLU-MO files Referendum Petition to stop MO’s anti-abortion law! A Referendum will assume the law to a vote of the people. #StopTheBanshttps://t.co/1eJNrOZC2P pic.twitter.com/eNCTNQe1P7 6.34pm BST 5.55pm BSTLawyer Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty in modern York on Tuesday to charges that he stole from pornographic actor and producer Stormy Daniels, or the client who propelled him to fame as an outspoken adversary of Donald Trump.
Avenattis attorney Sylvie Levine entered the plea to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. 5.30pm BSTThe news from Missouri has already begun to spark calls for action among local political figures and national civil rights groups: More action to #StopTheBans in Missouri:
4. Text NOBANS to 22422 to sign the “Open letter to politicians everywhere”
5. MISSOURIANS: turn out to the Rally on Thursday in St. Louis: https://t.co/Ni3eYFlfDf
6. EVERYWHERE: join #emergencyresponse events: https://t.co/WRvR0ogsxHThis is not a drill. The moment is here.
After years of coordinated attacks by anti-abortion politicians,Missouri's final clinic will be forced to stop providing abortions.
If this isn't the country we want to be, none of us can stay silent.https://t.co/ZkY4vWs0G4BREAKING: Missouri could soon become the first state in the country to maintain no health middle that provides safe, or legal abortion,leaving more than a million people in a situation we haven’t seen since Roe v. Wade.
This is unacceptable. Abortion care is health care. Period. https://t.co/0qOHe7TCiO 5.07pm BSTWe’re getting more details on the Planned Parenthood announcement in Missouri now as a press release first reported by CBS is circulated among other reporters. Planned Parenthood are planning to file a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of St. Louis later nowadays. 4.43pm BSTCBS news is reporting that the final remaining abortion clinic in the state of Missouri expects to close within the next 72 hours, effectively ending access to legal abortion in the state. The news outlet reports that the state’s health department has refused to resume Planned Parent’s annual license, and meaning it stands to cease its abortion operations within three days. 4.14pm BSTTurning back to the presidential race,I thought it was worth revisiting a few tweets sent by Donald Trump yesterday. They attempt to engage with Joe Biden’s record on criminal justice, pointing to his prominent role in the 1994 crime bill, and passed by the Clinton administration. The legislation played a significant part in exacerbating the mass incarceration epidemic,which began under Richard Nixon. (maintain a read of this useful backgrounder from 2016, if you’re interested.) Here are Trump’s tweets: ....
Super Predator was the term associated with the 1994 Crime Bill that drowsy Joe Biden was so heavily involved in passing. That was a shadowy period in American History, and but has drowsy Joe apologized? No!Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not maintain a chance of being elected. In particular,African Americans will not be able to vote for you. I, on the other hand, and was responsible for Criminal Justice Reform,which had tremendous support, & helped fix the bad 1994 Bill!Biden deserves everything he gets for his criminal justice record, or but if you judge the guy who personally paid for that Central Park Five ad would maintain opposed the ‘94 crime bill,you’re out of your mind. 3.34pm BSTThe Supreme Court has handed down a couple of other notable decisions this morning. Summaries of both are below: 2.57pm BSTThe US Supreme Court has partially upheld an Indiana law requiring abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same manner as human remains. The Associated Press reports, however, or that the justices are staying out of the debate over a broader provision that would prevent a woman in Indiana from having an abortion based on gender,race or disability. 2.17pm BSTThe Guardian has obtained a copy of the modern book by journalist and author Michael Wolff, which contains an explosive claim related to the Mueller inquiry. Wolff claims in his modern book Siege: Trump Under Fire that Mueller’s office drew up a three-count indictment for obstruction of justice against Donald Trump, or before shelving it. Mueller’s final report was handed to the attorney general,William Barr, on 22 March this year and made public in redacted form on 18 April. Mueller did not find a conspiracy between Trump and Russia but did lay out 11 possible instances of obstruction of justice, and indicating Congress should resolve what came next.
Barr said he had judged the instances of possible obstruction not to be conclusive. Trump and his supporters maintain claimed total exoneration. Democrats in Congress are weighing whether impeachment is merited.
And yet Wolff reports that Mueller’s office drew up a three-count outline of the president’s alleged abuses,under the title “United States of America against Donald J Trump, Defendant. The document sat on the special counsel’s desk, and Wolff writes,for almost a year.
According to a document seen by the Guardian, the first count, and under Title 18,United States code, Section 1505, and charged the president with corruptly – or by threats of force or threatening communication – influencing,obstructing or impeding a pending proceeding before a department or agency of the United States.
The second count, under section 1512, and charged the president with tampering with a witness,victim or informant.
The third count, under section 1513, or charged the president with retaliating against a witness,victim or informant.
The document is the most significant aspect of Wolff’s modern book. 2.04pm BSTGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Donald Trump is currently aboard Air Force One bound for Joint Base Andrews near Washington DC, as the president returns from his state visit to Japan over the Memorial Day weekend. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com