NYT—Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu of Israel threw up a hurdle on Saturday to President #Biden’s declaration a day earlier that it was “time for this war to end,” reiterating that #Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire in #Gaza before the destruction of #Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.
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Via Lawrence Tribe:
The Trumpers are now going for the jugular in attacking the great 1965 precedent on which nearly all federal rights of privacy and personal autonomy depend, Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, upholding the right to use #contraceptives when having sexual relations.
#Biden-Harris HQ:
Top #Trump supporter Marsha Blackburn says Griswold v. Connecticut is “constitutionally unsound”
(Griswold v. Connecticut is the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that legalized birth control)
#Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring President Joe #Biden is on the state’s 2024 ballot.
https://apnews.com/article/dbed6f0c5ec75d1aa7c7ef2ca81657fa
#ElonMusk Ramps Up Anti-Biden Posts
The #billionaire has increasingly been using his #SocialMedia platform to criticize #POTUS #Biden.
“He is just a tragic front for a far left political machine,” #Musk wrote. It was the 29th time this year that he had posted about the president….
#power #influence #TaxCutsForTheWealthy #CorporateTaxCuts #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/elon-musk-x-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
👍🏻👍🏻Via Kyle Griffin:
President #Biden just announced his 50th round of nominees for federal judicial positions — bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 244.
👍🏻 #Biden to waive penalties for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens
President Biden will announce plans to clear the way for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for legal residency #immigration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/06/17/biden-undocumented-immigrant-spouses/
👍🏻In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans’ ability to own a home or buy a car, the #Biden administration will propose a rule Tuesday to ban medical debt from credit reports. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sweeping-change-biden-administration-ban-medical-debt-credit/story?cid=social_twitter_abcn&id=110997906
Mensch in Chief👇🏼
Statement from President #Biden:
"As I said last week, I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today … As I also said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support. Nothing will ever change that."
#Biden attacks #Trump as ‘convicted felon’ after 34-count guilty verdict in hush-money trial –
At a campaign event in New York, the president described Trump as a “convicted felon”, and said, “This guy does not deserve to be president whether or not I’m running.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/04/biden-trump-immigration-election-latest-updates
Via Andrew Weissmann:
#Biden has every personal interest to tell his AG to drop the charges against his only surviving child. Or to pardon his son. #Trump wd do both in a heart beat. But Biden is not bc of his belief in and commitment to the rule of law, even at a great personal toll.
Via Emptywheel:
Mob tactics v unconditional love.
It's on the ballot in 2024.
Scott MacFarlane:
First Lady Jill Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington for opening statements in Hunter Biden trial
“The White House press corps would be in wolf pack mode if Biden were in the middle of a speech and suddenly veered into gibberish about boats and sharks. There would be front-page stories questioning whether the president, at 81, was suffering from dementia; and the op-ed pages would be filled with thumb-suckers about whether Vice President Harris and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment."
~ Eugene Robinson
#Trump #dementia #Biden #media #MediaFail
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/10/trump-sharks-electrocuted-boat-story/
#POTUS #Biden Issues #ExecutiveOrder to Temporarily Seal the #Border to #Asylum Seekers
The move shows how drastically #immigration #politics have shifted in the #UnitedStates. The ACLU said it planned to challenge the order in court.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/us/politics/biden-executive-order-border-asylum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=c&pvid=842FAC82-74E9-4568-964E-17F923835645&sgrp=c-cb
The #Biden admin will announce rules to block #MedicalDebt from being used to evaluate #borrowers’ fitness for #mortgages & other types of #loans.
…The WH has repeatedly focused on the issue of #medical #debt, saying it disproportionately harms low-income Americans & communities of color.
“This is going to be an enormous relief for so many people battling #bills when it comes to medical visits,” CPFB dir Rohit Chopra said….
#equity #economy #finance #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/11/biden-cfpb-medical-debt/
How #Republicans used #CheapFakes to attack #Biden in 24hrs
#POTUS, who at 81 is decades younger than the vets he honored during Thurs’s D-Day commemoration, nonetheless found his age & fitness in the spotlight as selectively #edited clips of him circulated online.
D-Day’s 80th quickly became the latest example of the fast spread of #manipulated videos, highlighting the use of #misinformation [ #disinformation ] & #ConspiracyTheories in politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/11/biden-videos-republicans-cheap-fake-d-day/
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
#BidenHarris2024
https://time.com/6984970/joe-biden-2024-interview/
Via Kyle Griffin:
President #Biden goes 'there' at a fundraiser in CT: "For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency."
"Something snapped in this guy for real" after 2020. "It's literally driving him crazy."
“President Joe #Biden’s administration is widening sanctions on the sale of semiconductor chips and other goods to #Russia, targeting third-party sellers in China and elsewhere as it looks to further choke off Vladimir Putin’s war machine in #Ukraine.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-11/chip-sales-to-russia-to-be-curbed-under-wider-us-sanctions
Republicans are not interested in securing the southern U.S. border. Democrats have been tougher on this (specifically on deportation—see the Obama administration’s record deportations.) A brief history by @VICE (story from 2019): https://bit.ly/4c3uuJV #vote #Biden
FYI
I’ve decided not to report much on #HunterBiden’s trial. It is evident that he, Beau’s widow, & the #Biden family were in deep #grief.
In that grief, Hunter & Hallie self-medicated w/a highly addictive drug. Hunter already had a predisposition to #addiction, & he did what people addicted to drugs & alcohol do — made terrible decisions.
He admitted it & admitted to committing crimes during his addiction.
Detailing that painful time for the purpose of humiliating his family is cruel.
#POTUS #Biden said Thurs he would not #pardon his son, if convicted.
Biden said “yes” when asked in an ABC interview if he would rule out pardoning Hunter Biden…. Biden also said yes when the interviewer asked if he would accept the trial’s outcome.
The president has said for months that he would not pardon his son.
“I’ve been very clear — the president is not going to pardon his son,” WH press sec Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in Dec.
#law #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/06/joe-biden-hunter-not-pardon/
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Via Kyle Griffin:
The Biden-Harris campaign says it's Los Angeles fundraiser tonight featuring Presidents #Biden and Obama, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Jimmy Kimmel has already raised $28 million — the most for any fundraiser in Democratic Party history.
President #Biden says he won't offer commutation to his son Hunter after gun sentence https://apnews.com/article/18efb958a5365eebda5bb3da411c4326
Mensch in Chief
President #Biden: "I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He's one of the brightest, most decent men I know."
He says he will "abide by the jury's decision."
Biden did not attack the justice system or the outcome of the trial.