Today, President @JoeBiden meets with AG Merrick Garland et al to talk about gun crimes in America. The conversation is expected to lean heavily into increasing state & local funding for police. I will have more later today for @CourthouseNews.
Joining Biden @ the WH today: DC Mayor @MurielBowser, Mayor of San Jose, CA @sliccardo + Memphis PD police chief CJ Davis; superintendent for Chicago PD David Brown, Wilmington, DE PD chief Robert Tracy, Newark NJ chief Anthony Lima & Aqueela Sherrills (cbpscollective.org/our-team/)
If people tell you the Biden administration is not dedicated to increasing funding for police, this is from the White House in June. Folks on either side of this issue need to be disabused of the notion that Democrats are against funding police. From the horse's mouth:
Now: Donald Trump at a rally at his golf club in New Jersey announces he is suing FB, Twitter and other social media companies for injunctive relief - he wants them to put his accounts back online. And he's hired "the tobacco lawyers" to represent him, he says. @CourthouseNews
#BREAKING: The 46-page lawsuit from Trump against YouTube, and Sundar Pichai, the Chief Executive Officer of Google, Inc. and Alphabet, Inc., where he's asking for his accounts to be reinstated but also that Section 230 be declared unconstitutional: documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
Trump is being represented by the firm Vargas, Gonzalez, Baldwin, Delombard.
Inbox: @SpeakerPelosi slams @GOPLeader McCarthy this morning, saying he "looks the other way and welcomes members who spread dangerous conspiracy theories and consort with insurrections, far right extremists and white supremacists"
Pelosi cites the following reports as evidence of McCarthy's white supremacy/domestic extremism apologetics: edition.cnn.com/2021/07/02/pol…
Inbox: Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina will have her appeal of a $5,000 fine for allegedly evading House metal detectors upheld, the House Ethics Committee announces.
Foxx was heading to a vote & according to an incident report by U.S. Capitol Police in May, she evaded a magnometer, brushed off a request for her to stop and then allegedly told reporter Olivia Beavers "Why don't you deal with things that are important?" forbes.com/sites/andrewso…
The comment to Beavers, as first reported, was prompted because Beavers saw Foxx skip past the magnometer and said, "I don’t want to get you guys in trouble, but I’m going to be reporting on that."
#BREAKING: Pelosi announces members of the 1/6 select committee including representatives:
Bennie Thompson, Chair
Liz Cheney
Jamie Raskin
Stephanie Murphy
Elaine Luria
Zoe Lofgren
Adam Schiff
Pete Aguilar
Chair @BennieGThompson says at today's press conference unveiling membership of the select 1/6 cmte: "[Speaker Pelosi] you met Republicans more than halfway in an effort to stand up a bipartisan independent commission."
Pelosi brushes off a question from a reporter who starts out his questions asking about what McCarthy has to say about appointments. "Go ask him and his caucus."
McCarthy does have a presser today at 11:30.
Starting today in Virginia: Adults 21 and older can legally possess weed in the commonwealth. You can't have more than 1 oz of cannabis though + no intent to distribute. The commonwealth legalized it back in April. Ppl with over 1lb of weed? You face up to 10 years in prison.
Though legal possession of small amounts of marijuana is effective today in Virginia, you still cannot legally consume it public. And you can only own up to 4 plants at home for personal use.