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26 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Good morning. Donald Trump's 2nd impeachment trial is shaping up. Senators are sworn in for trial today & a summons is expected to be sent to the former prez, too. Then it is legal briefs btwn Trump's lawyers & impchmnt mgrs for ~2 weeks.
Trial start date Feb 9.
.@JackRodgersCNS had the story yesterday on the delivery of the impeachment article (incitement of insurrection) here:
courthousenews.com/house-delivers…
Senators swearing in as jurors for the impeachment trial starts today around 2:15PM ET.
You can watch the ceremony here:
c-span.org/video/?508294-…
Also on the agenda today; the Senate will debate and then vote on the nomination of Antony Blinken to serve as Secretary of State around noon ET.
A bit of background on Blinken here: courthousenews.com/bidens-incomin…
With Blinken on the edge of being confirmed, Biden's cabinet continues to come together. Yesterday, Janet Yellen was successfully confirmed as US Treasury Secy.
Background here:
courthousenews.com/yellen-becomes…
Today at 10AM ET: The Senate Commerce Cmte meets for the confirmation hearing of Gina Raimondo. She is Biden's pick to serve as Commerce Secretary and currently, the governor of Rhode Island. She is expected to breeze through and a vote on her could come before the week is out.
Around 12:30 PM ET today, @PressSec holds a briefing w/Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy adviser, where they are expected to discuss executive orders @POTUS will sign re: advancing racial equity. Biden to speak on how his admin plans to address that, signs EOs around 2 PM ET.
Also happening today: VP Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff receive their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine. They will get their jabs in the arm around 4M PM ET.

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26 Jan
Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy adviser: "Private prisons profiteer off prisoners and are found to be less safe for correctional officers and for prisoners."
Rice: "President Biden is committed to reducing mass incarceration while making our communities safer and that starts with ending the federal government’s reliance on private prisons."
What will the Biden admin do to address distrust around law enforcement and policing among Black Americans?
Rice says in coming weeks the administration will have more announcements about reforms to policing, so "stay tuned for that," she says.
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26 Jan
TODAY: Biden will sign 4 EOs taking first steps towards rooting out systemic racism in housing and criminal justice including ending DOJ's use of private prisons.
More to come @CourthouseNews
Biden also directing HUD to take steps redressing discriminatory fed housing policies. Another order recommits fed govt to "respect Tribal sovereignty & strengthen the Nation-to-Nation relationship between the United States & Tribal Nations."
And in the last order, the Biden-Harris White House sets out to "combat xenophobia against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders," which has been on the uptick in the last year thanks to disinformation shared and derogatory remarks made about the novel coronavirus and its origins Image
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19 Jan
Shortly after 12PM ET tomorrow, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in, marking the official beginning of the Biden-Harris administration. But before that - multiple confirmations for Biden's admin are afoot today.
@CourthouseNews
Confirmation hearings on deck today include Janet Yellen for Secy of Treasury, Avril Haines for director of nat'l intelligence over at ODNI, Alejandro Mayorkas for DHS Secy, Anthony Blinken for Secy of State and Lloyd Austin for Secy of Defense.
@CourthouseNews
I will pop around from confirmation hearing to confirmation hearing today and post updates where I can in this thread.
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18 Jan
No sign of unrest in Washington tonight as the city remains locked down ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Via several reporters here at @CourthouseNews. Some photos inside and in this thread🔽
courthousenews.com/capitol-protes…
.@JackRodgersCNS & I walked all over D.C. today looking for protests. Instead, we found a city fortified and largely locked down after the insurrection and ahead of @JoeBiden's inauguration.
That's the White House hiding all the way back there behind all the barricades.
While we didn't see any of Trump's supporters downtown today, we did find Black Lives Matter Plaza, joyous and defiant, with music playing and signs protesting the outgoing twice impeached president with some colorful language.
cc: @JackRodgersCNS
@CourthouseNews
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15 Jan
Hi Jenna!
It's not so much Biden, but it might be his DOJ? Time will tell.
And definitely not all, but mostly just the ones who helped lay siege to the United States Capitol building.
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15 Jan
NEW: House Judiciary Committee announces Barry Berke to serve as chief impeachment counsel and Joshua Matz as impeachment counsel.

Supporting senior staff includes:
@CourthouseNews
Lead impeachment manager @RepRaskin in statement thanks Berke and Matz for their assistance on perhaps the most "important trial of American history."
"Our democracy continues to face clear and present danger from the violent insurrectionist mob summoned, assembled and blessed by President Donald Trump," Raskin says.
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