Booker asks Barrett if she thinks it's wrong to separate children from their parents
Barrett: "That's a matter of hot political debate that I can't express a view or be drawn into as a judge"
Booker: "These are basic questions of human rights."
Lindsay Wise
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Lindsay Wise
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Covering Congress for @WSJ. Formerly @KCStar, @HoustonChron. Send tips via email, DM or Signal. #IAPEstrong
- A statement from Danielle Hegseth after the Senate vote to confirm Pete Hegseth: “What happened today will make women who have experienced abuse and mistreatment even less forthcoming …”
- Eliot L. Engel, chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee: “I have learned that the Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Secretary Pompeo. Mr. Linick’s firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation”
- Rep. Brian Mast, a military combat veteran, is giving history lesson to US troops deployed to the Capitol. Says he’s going to try to get them into the Speakers Gallery for the famous view.
- UPDATE: Republicans appear to have realized their mistake and removed this sign from the hearing roomRepublicans had added a sign behind GOP committee members that says "0 days since Adam Schiff Followed House Rules" ... 🤔
- Volker, a witness called by Republicans, in his opening statement: "I have known Vice President Biden for 24 years. He is an honorable man and I hold him in the highest regard"
- Mitt Romney just came out of the GOP lunch carrying a poster board with a bar graf on it and the title: “Blue states aren’t the only ones getting screwed”
- A GOP strategist in KS warns this is "a big deal" "There were no major contested Democratic primaries to drive turnout & the amendment still failed resoundingly. If Republicans think the issue of abortion isn't on the minds of voters tonight's results should put them on notice"Kansas Voters Reject Constitutional Amendment Removing Abortion Protections wsj.com/livecoverage/p… via @wsj
- Dershowitz's exact words: "Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest. If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment"Replying to @AlanDershThey characterized my argument as if I had said that if a president believes that his re-election was in the national interest, he can do anything. I said nothing like that, as anyone who actually heard what I said can attest.
- Graham on Fox: “And I’ll just say this, if most Americans heard from Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci that it was not safe to go back to work, no matter what the president said, most would not go back to work.”
- MCCONNELL: "The mob was fed lies, they were provoked by the president and other powerful people...But we pressed on. We stood together and said an angry mob would not get veto power over the rule of law in our nation, not even for one night."
- Michigan Republican @RepFredUpton will vote to impeach President Trump, his office confirms. Statement coming.
- NEW—> @SpeakerPelosi endorses House Judiciary investigation of Barr: “Congressional oversight of the Executive Branch is needed to protect the integrity of our legal system, which is under serious threat from this White House. AG Barr must be held accountable for his actions.“
- 71% of American adults, including nearly half of all Republicans, believe former President Donald Trump was at least partially responsible for starting the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
