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Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 4:34 a.m. No.16439768   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9841

Thats a shame only 11 million some or all of the J6 sham

 

https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1535344453896093698?s=20&t=ti7Hs1XMBbJYGS4b-UvEqA

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 4:39 a.m. No.16439778   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0318 >>0421

‘One-Sided’: CNN Legal Analyst Takes Aim At January 6th Hearing

Harold Hutchison

June 10, 2022 12:38 PM ET

 

A CNN legal analyst took aim at Thursday evening’s hearing held by the Jan. 6 Select Committee, calling it “one-sided.”

 

“Aprosecutor has to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, the standard for a member of Congress saying it’s a crime is they feel like saying it’s a crime,” Elie Honig, a senior legal analyst and former prosecutor said on CNN’s “New Day” Friday morning. “Also important to keep in mind last night’s presentation was bipartisan, yes, but one-sided. There was no push back, there was no cross-examination.”

 

Committee chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi invoked slavery in his opening statement during the hearing, which aired on multiple broadcast networks. Democrats told media outlets that they hope the hearings will influence the 2024 election, Politico reported.

 

Republicans boycotted the Jan. 6 committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to appoint Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled the three remaining nominees for the committee in the wake of Pelosi’s refusal.

 

The only Republicans on the committee are Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, both outspoken Trump critics.

 

“There’s been a change of tone,” Honig said. “If you think to the early days of the committee when the members were asked do you think this is a crime, they were circumspect, they would tip toe around, they would say ‘that’s not for us, the evidence will speak for itself.’ Now they’re outright campaigning to DOJ which calling the conduct illegal and criminal.”

 

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik criticized the select committee as a “sham” and “illegitimate.”

 

Honig did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/10/cnn-honig-onesided-january6-committee/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6 a.m. No.16439932   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0318 >>0421

13 Jun, 2022 10:25

Three killed in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk market – DPR

 

Four more have been wounded, local officials say

 

Ukrainian troops shelled the Mayski market in Donetsk on Monday, killing three people and injuring four, Donetsk People’s Republic officials have said.

 

Yan Gagin, an adviser to the Donetsk government, told reporters that a woman and a child are among those killed.

 

City officials also reported that a hospital and a gas pipeline were damaged.

 

Local media said that 10 rockets were launched at Donetsk from a Ukrainian-controlled area.

 

Mayor Alexey Kulemzin wrote on his Telegram channel that 13 people were injured in the district of Donetsk where the market is located on Monday.

 

Russia, along with the Donbass forces, and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of shelling residential areas and killing civilians. Moscow insists that it only strikes military sites.

 

On Sunday, Sergey Gayday, a senior Ukrainian-appointed official, said that Russian forces shelled the city of Lisichansk, also in Donbass, killing three people, including a six-year-old boy.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/557073-three-killed-ukrainian-shelling-donetsk/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:04 a.m. No.16439939   🗄️.is 🔗kun

13 Jun, 2022 08:38

UK poised to send first asylum seekers to Africa

Courts are hearing last-minute appeals against 30 deportations, with thefirst flight to Rwanda slated for Tuesday

 

The High Court of Justice and The Court of Appeal in London are hearing last-minute legal challenges to a new British government policy, under which asylum seekers are to be deported to Rwanda while their applications are being processed.

 

The first flight to the Central African country is expected to leave on Tuesday while refugee charity, Asylum Aid, is presenting arguments before the High Court on Monday.

 

The group insists that the government’s scheme, which gives asylum seekers a week to obtain legal counsel and to present their case to avoid deportation, is unjust.

 

Objections to the policy are also being mounted in the Court of Appeal by two more human rights groups and a trade union. The last-ditch attempts come shortly after a judge refused activists’ requests for an injunction to block the first deportation flight. The High Court sided with the government, arguing that there was a “material public interest” to allow the scheme to go ahead.

 

While the British government has not released the details of the first 30 asylum seekers it wants to send to Rwanda, charities claim that Syrian and Afghan nationals are among them.

 

In mid-April, Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a deal, under which Rwanda would house migrants seeking asylum in Britain in exchange for a down payment of £120 million ($148 million).

 

London will also pick up the tab for the migrants’ accommodation and integration, as clarified by the Home Office.

 

“Our new Migration and Economic Development Partnership will mean that anyone entering the UK illegally – as well as those who have arrived illegally since January 1st – may now be relocated to Rwanda,” the British PM announced at the time.

 

Johnson argued that the scheme would deal a severe blow to people-smugglers, while taking the heat off Britain’s social services.

 

Despite Johnson insisting that Rwanda was “one of the safest countries in the world,” critics were left unconvinced, with the Refugee Council group branding the scheme as “cruel and nasty.” The Labour party was also quick to pick holes in the plan, which it said was “extortionate as well as unworkable & unethical.”

 

According to the UK’s Times newspaper, it is not only the opposition and rights groups, that are highly critical of the scheme, but also Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne.

 

The royal reportedly described the government’s plan as “appalling” over the weekend.

 

When asked for comment, a spokesperson for Prince Charles did not deny he had voiced personal opinions about the policy, noting, however, that the royal remained “politically neutral,” in keeping with Britain’s unwritten constitution.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/557065-uk-deport-migrants-rwanda-appeals/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:09 a.m. No.16439951   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9956

12 Jun, 2022 13:04

Norway dumps NATO helicopter contract

Oslo is terminating a deal for the NH-90 dating back 20 years and now demands that €500 million be reimbursed

 

Norway, one of the founding NATO members, is terminating a contract for NH-90 military helicopters it signed back in 2001, the country’s Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram announced at a press conference on Friday. The model, which was developed specifically to meet the military alliance’s requirements, has been deemed suboptimal by the Norwegian military, which cited multiple defects and delays.

 

As the model “will never be in a position to fulfill the requirements of the Norwegian armed forces,” Oslo is now demanding that the nearly €500 million it has paid so far be reimbursed. The operation of the helicopters, which had already been delivered to Norway, was ceased with immediate effect on Friday. The machines will be returned to the manufacturer, France-based multinational company NHIndustries.

 

In the meantime, Oslo is reportedly looking for a replacement, which could come from the US, Germany’s Die Welt outlet indicated.

 

The report described the Norwegian military’s final verdict on the NH-90 as “damning” for both the model itself and the company that produces it. Oslo made it clear, as the article noted, that no additional tinkering, spare parts or investment were likely to make the helicopter worth having.

 

However, NHIndustries is apparently not going to take the abrupt contract cancellation in stride and could reportedly even take Norway to court over its decision, which the company described as “legally unfounded.”

 

In its statement, the multinational said, among other things, that it “rejects the accusations against NH90 and the company,” adding that Oslo had not given NHIndustries the opportunity to address “special Norwegian requirements.”

 

The manufacturer went on to insist that 13 of the 14 helicopters ordered by Norway had been delivered, with the other one ready to be collected. However, according to the Norwegian military, only eight of those machines were fully operational.

 

For NHIndustries, in which Airbus holds a controlling interest, Norway’s decision represents a new blow, after Australia, another buyer of the NH-90, announced in December 2021 that it was planning to switch to the US-made Black Hawk down the road. Canberra explained at the time that the performance of the European helicopter was a “constant problem,” adding that the operating costs were too high as well.

 

Die Welt claimed that Belgium, too, is currently considering replacing its NH-90s.

 

The German outlet noted that other users have also reported various issues with the NH-90. For instance, the Netherlands has allegedly complained about corrosion problems associated with the model.

 

According to a report penned by the German military and cited by Die Welt, by the end of 2021, only 19% of the NH-90s in service with the German armed forces were operational. The outlet claimed, citing a Germany military industry blog, that the country’s Navy recently refused to accept one such helicopter due to radar errors and a persistent fuel smell in the cockpit.

 

With its maiden flight in 1995, the NH-90 is currently in service in over a dozen countries, mostly in Europe.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/557036-norway-terminates-contract-nato-helicopter/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:13 a.m. No.16439965   🗄️.is 🔗kun

12 Jun, 2022 17:08

West wants to ‘absolve’ itself from its own crimes – Serbia

By pressuring Belgrade to sanction Moscow, Western states are seeking to whitewash their own sins, the interior minister says

 

It is not in Serbia’s interests to reduce cooperation with Russia and to “absolve” the West of its crimes, the interior minister says

 

Serbia says it is not interested in diminishing its “closeness and cooperation” with Moscow, adding that by trying to force Belgrade to impose sanctions on Russia, the West simply seeks to “absolve” itself from its own crimes.

 

In an interview with the newspaper Novosti published on Sunday, Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that throughout history, Serbs have always been “expected to do something for others” and to neglect their own interests.

 

“It is not in Serbia’s interest to participate in the conflicts of the greats, and it is not in Serbia’s interest to diminish the closeness and cooperation with Russia and its leadership,” the minister said.

 

He claimed that when Western countries ask Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia, they know it would not mean much for Russia from an economic perspective, but would serve as a significant moral blow.

 

“Those who bombed us know that the moral greatness of Serbia is disproportionate to its firepower, and that is why they need that little tormented Serbia, that brave victim, to be with them,” he said.

 

In his opinion, the US and its allies “have everything but morals” and so they want Serbia “to absolve them of the crimes they have committed and to absolve them of the sins of violating international law.”

 

“Unlike Western admirers of the right to vote and democracy, despotic Russia and China have never asked us to impose sanctions on the EU or US and accept their choice as our own,” Vulin said, adding that any “anti-Russian hysteria is always anti-Serbian.”

 

The minister also noted that his country does not want Russia to be defeated in Ukraine.

 

“The defeat of Russia would be felt with all its might in all positions of Serbia, as it always has been,” he said.

 

Vulin hailed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for “showing strength that exceeds the position of the president of a small country” in opposing the sanctions on Russia.

 

“Vucic is not a little Russian, he is a great Serb,” he added.

 

The US, EU, UK, and many other countries view Russia’s military operation in Ukraine as an act of unprovoked aggression and responded by imposing sweeping sanctions on Moscow.

 

On Friday, at a press conference with the Serbian president, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Serbia must follow the EU’s lead in sanctioning Russia, and recognize the breakaway province of Kosovo as an independent state if it hopes to join the bloc someday.

 

Vucic reiterated that sanctioning Russia would be difficult for Belgrade. Earlier this week, he told Serbian TV that the EU’s oil embargo has already cost $600 million in higher prices.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the sanctions have backfired on the West, citing the inflation and shortages that the US and EU governments are now trying to blame on Moscow. The following day, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the sanctions have indeed made a “huge difference to food and energy prices” amid record-setting inflation.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/557046-russia-serbia-relations-west/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:17 a.m. No.16439974   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9978 >>0009

12 Jun, 2022 17:24

Ukraine hails British monarch with bizarre image

 

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted an image of Queen Elizabeth armed with an anti-tank missile launcher

 

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry made a social media post on Saturday depicting Britain’s reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, aiming a shoulder-fired NLAW anti-tank missile launcher. The image is the latest in a line of controversial social media posts by the government in Kiev.

 

In the drawing, the Queen is depicted aiming one of the British-made missile launchers over one shoulder, with the Ukrainian coat of arms emblazoned on her other arm. “God bless the Queen, Ukraine and the whole world,” reads a caption above the image.

 

Britain has donated thousands of single-use NLAW missile launchers to Ukraine, and the weapons have been immortalized in British and Ukrainian propaganda. Mock-religious icons depict ‘Saint NLAW’ holding the missile launchers, and British politicians have claimed that Ukrainian soldiers shout “God save the Queen” as they fire the weapons.

 

The efficacy of the NLAWs, and of American-supplied Javelins and Stingers, has been hotly debated. Ukraine regularly claims to have destroyed more Russian vehicles than Moscow records as lost, and in the months since Britain first sent more than 4,000 NLAWs, Kiev has petitioned the West for heavier weapons and vehicles as Russia’s advance in eastern Ukraine continued.

 

The Defense Ministry’s post was cheered on Twitter by pro-Ukrainian users, but slated by others. Some condemned the ministry for supporting a foreign monarch, while others simply described the post as “cringe.”

 

The ministry has made a number of controversial posts since Russian forces attacked Ukraine in late February. Among them were attempts to pass off video game footage as a real-life air battle, and photos of its own soldiers wearing Nazi insignia. Other official Ukrainian government accounts have compared the country’s struggles to those of Nazi Germany, while the Ukrainian National Guard has boasted of dipping bullets into pig fat for use against Chechen Muslim soldiers, whom it called “orcs.”

 

Although Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s head of state, her role is mostly a symbolic one. The country’s Defense Ministry authorized the donation of NLAW systems to Ukraine, and the Queen herself has not publicly commented on the conflict, instead making a “generous” donation in March to humanitarian aid groups working in the country.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/557051-ukraine-queen-nlaw-post/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:32 a.m. No.16440017   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0318 >>0421

Watch Live: ‘ShutDownDC’ Attempt Planned ‘Blockade’ of SCOTUS Ahead of Possible Abortion Ruling

Breitbart News13 Jun 2022

1:07

 

ShutDownDC, a leftist activist group, plans to “blockade” the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of its potential decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Monday.

 

“These unelected extremists [U.S. Supreme Court justices] are trying to steal our rights and roll us backwards on issue after issue – abortion, guns, environment, due process, &c [sic]. They are illegitimate & the people say no,” said the group in a tweet on Sunday.

 

According to the organization’s website, “We are in a crisis of democracy… Times of crisis can either be opportunities to break through the inertia and win transformational change or they can be opportunities for the establishment to further entrench the status quo.”

 

“On June 13, one of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision days, we plan to blockade the streets around the Supreme Court to rise up for the transformative change that our communities need,” the event description continues.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/13/watch-live-shutdowndc-attempt-planned-blockade-of-scotus-ahead-of-possible-abortion-ruling/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:34 a.m. No.16440025   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0219 >>0318 >>0421

Senate Gun Control Agreement Adds ‘Investigative Period’ to Some Firearm Background Checks

 

The Senate gun control agreement that emerged Sunday adds an “investigative period” to some firearm background checks.

 

Breitbart News reported that the Senate agreement includes proposals such as a crackdown on straw purchases, funding to incentivize states to adopt, red flag laws, and deeper record searches for gun buyers under the age of 21, among other things.

 

The broadened record searches for gun buyers younger than 21 “requires an investigative period to review juvenile and mental health records.”

 

The agreement contains no stipulation for how long this “investigative period” may last.

 

On February 28, 2019, NPR noted that House Democrats were pushing to change National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks so as to allow longer extended review periods.

 

The FBI conducts NICS checks on retail gun purchasers. The checks are designed to be completed quickly, but the FBI can take up to three business days to conduct the check if they believe they need to see more records. This means a NICS check either returns a pass or a fail, or it signals a need for an extended review of records.

 

On August 5, 2019, Business Insider noted that the Democrat-controlled House passed the Enhanced Background Checks Act to extend NICS reviews to ten days. The Republican-controlled Senate did not pass the Act.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/13/senate-gun-control-agreement-adds-investigative-period-some-firearm-background-checks/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:36 a.m. No.16440030   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0318 >>0421

Macron Faces Losing Parliament Majority As Left Bloc Surges in Legislative 1st Round Vote

 

French President Emmanuel Macron may not achieve a majority in the French parliament as the first round of legislative elections as voter abstentions reached a record 52.8 per cent.

 

President Macron’s bloc Ensemble! (Together!) polled at 25.8 per cent according to projections by the firm Elabe after the voting for the first round of the legislative elections ended on Sunday evening.

 

The leftist bloc, the New Ecologic and Social People’s Union, or NUPES, polled slightly higher than Macron’s candidates at 26.2 per cent, fueling speculation that after the second round, which is set to take place next Sunday, Macron may not be able to wield a majority in the French parliament, France24 reports.

 

A total of 289 seats are required to form a majority in the French parliament and projections state that Macron’s Ensemble! could gain between 225 to 310 seats after the second round of voting next week.

 

A loss of majority status could force President Macron to negotiate future legislation on a case-by-case basis as he would require the support of other parties to pass policy proposals.

 

“It’s a very serious warning that has been sent to Emmanuel Macron,” said Brice Teinturier, a political scientist, who added, “A majority is far from certain.”

 

Far-left former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the NUPES bloc, commented on the initial results saying, “The presidential majority is defeated,” and added, “The truth is that the presidential party is beaten and defeated.”

 

“I call on our people, in view of this result, for our personal lives and for the destiny of the common homeland, to surge next Sunday,” Mélenchon said and added that his bloc was “ready to govern.”

 

Populist Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN) and the runner-up in this year’s presidential election, came close to securing an outright win in her race in Henin-Beaumont with 54 per cent of the vote but will need to go to a second-round due to the low turnout in the election.

 

Low turnouts for the election were not limited to Ms Le Pen’s race as the entire election saw a record 52.8 per cent of voters choosing to abstain from voting.

 

Le Pen’s National Rally, which won just eight seats at the least national election in 2017, is projected to increase her party’s presence in parliament to between 20 and 45 seats this year.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/13/macron-faces-losing-parliament-majority-as-left-bloc-surges-in-legislative-1st-round-vote/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:40 a.m. No.16440042   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0318 >>0421

Exclusive: Whistleblowers Detail How Illegal Alien Smugglers Use California’s Sanctuary State Policy

 

I dont know why this is news

 

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Whistleblowers are detailing how California’s sanctuary state policy, shielding illegal aliens from arrest and deportation, is crucial to smugglers operating the billion-dollar enterprise for the Mexican drug cartels.

 

In October 2017, California joined a number of other blue states in designating itself a destination for illegal immigration by imposing a strict sanctuary state policy that bans local law enforcement from inquiring about the immigration status of suspects and cooperating with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

 

Likewise, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law the policy that allows illegal aliens to secure driver’s licenses in the state.

 

Whistleblowers close to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Breitbart News that California’s sanctuary state policy is a vital tool for smugglers working for the cartels who bring thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens to the United States-Mexico border every day.

 

For example, in cases where federal immigration officials are trying to track down smugglers and the illegal aliens they are smuggling, whistleblowers said California local police almost never intervene to help with arrests.

 

“California officers are not allowed to intervene ever,” a whistleblower said. “And the officers will literally say, ‘We wish we could help but we’re not allowed to.’ The smugglers know all of this.”

 

“If the illegal aliens have seatbelts on, the cops won’t call us to report smuggling. So long as they’re following state laws,” another whistleblower said. “The sheriffs cannot, by law, pick up migrants even if they had an ICE detainer after they finish their sentence, they’ll just let them loose.”

 

Such claims are overwhelmingly supported by county data in California.

 

Federal immigration officials revealed in 2019 that Los Angeles County, California release about 100 criminal illegal aliens from their local custody every day rather than turning them over to ICE agents for arrest and deportation.

 

“Today, because of the sanctuary policies that are in place, we receive less than five [criminal illegal aliens] which means — with all things being equal — there are 70 to 100 criminal aliens hitting the streets of Los Angeles, alone, that is one city within the United States,” former ICE official Timothy Robbins said in congressional testimony at the time.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/12/exclusive-whistleblowers-detail-how-illegal-alien-smugglers-use-californias-sanctuary-state-policy/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:46 a.m. No.16440062   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0072

Hutchinson: Many in Republican Party ‘Looking for an Off-Ramp’ from Trump’s Control

 

(More traitors, Good luck with that assholes)

 

Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that many in the Republican Party were “looking for an off-ramp” from former President Donald Trump’s control.

 

Hutchinson said, “I hope that the future of the Republican Party is different than former President Trump’s leadership. I hope we move in a different direction. I believe that what happened on January 6 is a lot at his feet. It was wrong for our country, and for him to continue to push that theory, I agree, is the wrong direction for the Republican Party.”

 

He added, “I think there is many Republicans that are looking for an off-ramp, new opportunities to define leadership in the future. And obviously, what President Trump did, there’s a lot of things that he did that were very good that the base and I agree with, but he got off track on Jan. 6, and that was a costly error for our democracy. I agree with a lot of the comments that he has responsibility there, and we need to make sure that’s clear. I think Republicans need to do a lot of soul-searching as to what is the right thing here. What is the right thing to say for our party and our democracy and our future and not simply appeal to the instincts of some of our base.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/06/12/hutchinson-many-in-republican-party-looking-for-an-off-ramp-from-trumps-control/

Anonymous ID: 9077b5 June 13, 2022, 6:56 a.m. No.16440097   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0122 >>0449

House Delays Judicial Protection Bill in order to Expand Coverage of Personal Security Details to Staffers, Aides, Receptionists, Chauffers’ and DC Employees

 

June 9, 2022 | Sundance | 247 Comments

If you know the way Washington DC thinks, specifically thinks about their own scale of importance amid a world filled with lesser people who do not understand the value of their elite place in the construction of government, then you could easily predict what is happening right now.

 

A previous senate bill that would have afforded security details to Supreme Court Justices, is now stalled in the House of Representatives as Nancy Pelosi and top Democrat politicians add an additional set of people who should gain the full benefit of taxpayer funded security details.

 

Democrats in the House are using the opportunity provided by bipartisan agreement to enhance the personal security services for the Judicial Branch, in order to assign the same privileges to staff, aides and people who work within the administration of government. DC is nothing if not predictable in their elitist view of their self-importance.

 

At the same time as Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, along with some insufferable republicans who pretend not to know how these issues are always manipulated to the benefit of the administrative state, are urgently constructing limits and restrictions to disarm lawful Americans; they are simultaneously building their own system of personal protective services to insure they never have to face the same physical risks they initiate upon everyone else.

 

WASHINGTON DC – […] House Democratic leadership didn’t agree to the vote because they want a broader bill that would include enhanced security, which could include extending protection to clerks and other staff.

 

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer during an exchange on the floor why Democratic leadership hadn’t put the bill to a vote after it unanimously passed the Senate.

 

“I think it’s a very relevant question,” Hoyer said in response. “Hopefully can move that as early as possible. I want to tell the gentleman the reason he thought that it might be moving this morning was because last night I thought I had after discussions with Sen. Cornyn, a way forward both the Senate and the House could agree on. Unfortunately this morning that appeared not to be the case.”

 

The bill’s purpose was brought into sharp focus early Wednesday when an armed man was arrested near Kavanaugh’s Maryland home after making threats against the justice, according to a court spokesperson. The man told law enforcement he had traveled from California to kill “a specific United States Supreme Court Justice,” according to an FBI affidavit filed Wednesday.

 

Senate Judiciary Chairman Duck Durbin said earlier Thursday that the House is “ready to move” on the bill, telling reporters that “we’re ready to meet with them and resolve our differences” on the legislation.

 

“What happened this week with Justice Kavanaugh is a reminder that we live in a dangerous place, and these people are vulnerable and we should protect them,” Durbin said.

 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been critical of the House for its inaction on the legislation, and on Thursday he slammed Pelosi for what he called a “dangerous dereliction of duty” for slow-walking its passage.

 

“Inexplicably, this urgent and uncontroversial bill has been sitting on Speaker Pelosi’s desk ever since,” he said. “The same House Democrats whose irresponsible rhetoric has contributed to this dangerous climate are themselves blocking added security for the judges and their spouses and their children.”

 

Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told CNN on Wednesday he is still working with the House on a compromise to enhance security, which could include extending protection to clerks and other staff. (read more)

 

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/09/house-delays-judicial-protection-bill-in-order-to-expand-coverage-of-personal-security-details-to-staffers-aides-receptionists-chauffers-and-dc-employees/#more-233983