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24 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In new letter to Dems, Pelosi says the new House bipartisan committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack will hold its first hearing on Tuesday.
People participating:

-Harry Dunn, Private First Class, U.S. Capitol Police
-Aquilino Gonell, Sergeant, U.S. Capitol Police
-Michael Fanone, Officer, Metropolitan Police Department
-Daniel Hodges, Officer, Metropolitan Police Department
"Each is a hero, and each will bring powerful testimony about the truth of the day," Pelosi says in her letter.
"We have the duty, to the Constitution and the Country, to find the truth of the January 6th insurrection and to ensure that such an assault on our Democracy cannot again happen," she says.

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26 Jul
In call with reporters, Rep. Adam Schiff says there will be new video footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack presented when the Jan. 6 House committee holds its first hearing on Tuesday.
These videos will "include depictions of violence," so be prepared if you tune in, warns a committee aide.
Some of the Jan. 6 video footage will be familiar to Hill reporters, says Schiff.

"For the viewing public, most of it is going to be new."
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26 Jul
Good day! 🥂

Sen. Josh Hawley, who voted to overturn the presidential election + raised his fist in solidarity with white supremacists just before they attacked the Capitol to stop Joe Biden from becoming prez, just introduced a bill about loving America. huffpost.com/entry/josh-haw…
Hawley says his new bill, called the Love America Act, would "promote patriotism in education" by barring federal $ to any public schools that teach students about how racism or white supremacy played a role in the founding of America.

This is better known as whitewashing.
Hawley's bill, which is not going anywhere, would also require schools that receive federal $ to ensure that students can read and recite portions of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution + the Pledge of Allegiance.

So would that include the 3/5 clause or...?
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21 Jul
Hi. While I've got you here: You voted to overturn the presidential election based on a lie about voter fraud that fueled a deadly Capitol insurrection. Why should any of the 147 Republicans who rejected democracy that day, including you, play a role in investigating that attack?
Here are the names of those 147 Republicans by the way. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
As a follow-up question: Of those 147 Republicans I just referenced, 139 of them -- including you -- also voted against standing up an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack.

Why did you do that? huffpost.com/entry/republic…
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21 Jul
Pelosi rejects GOP Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan for the Jan. 6 committee, saying they could hurt “the integrity of the investigation."

Why?

Oh, both voted to overturn the presidential election based on a lie that fueled the insurrection that day. huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pe…
“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee."
Kevin McCarthy has responded by saying he's pulling all 5 of his GOP picks from the committee.

Also the committee is charged with investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection that was fueled by the same lie he told about voter fraud when he voted to overturn the presidential election.
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20 Jul
Six months in, Biden has already appointed more Black women to lifetime seats on federal appeals courts than all but one president in U.S. history. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
Only 11 Black women have *ever* served as a federal appeals court judge since the U.S. courts were formed in 1789.

Of those 11, three have been appointed by Biden in the six months he's been in office. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
And those 11 Black women are out of a total of 838 people who have been appointed to lifetime seats on U.S. appeals courts since... 1789.
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20 Jul
Tonight, the Senate voted 63-33 to confirm Tiffany Cunningham to be a lifetime judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

She will be the court's first-ever Black judge.

She's also Biden's third appeals court judge confirmed. All have been Black women.
For a little context:

In four years, Trump appointed zero Black women to any federal appeals court seat.
For a little more context:

Only 11 Black women have *ever* served as a federal appeals court judge since the U.S. courts were formed in 1789. That includes today's confirmation of Cunningham.

Of those 11, 3 have been appointed by Biden in the six months he's been in office.
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