Home committee releases picture of ‘sickening’ Trump birthday word to Epstein
Howdy and welcome to the US politics reside weblog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will likely be bringing you all the newest information strains over the subsequent few hours.
We begin with information that Home Democrats on Monday launched a picture of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing that seems to bear the signature of Donald Trump, the exact same word the president had denied writing after studies of its existence have been printed earlier this yr within the Wall Avenue Journal.
The letter, described as “sickening” by one consultant, was turned over by attorneys for disgraced financier and intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein’s property in response to a subpoena from the Home oversight committee, and was included in a set of notes despatched to the convicted intercourse offender for his fiftieth birthday.
The picture confirmed a letter that in impact comported with an outline within the Journal’s report from July. Contained in the sketch of a lady’s torso, the word depicts an imagined dialog between Trump and Epstein, with what seemed to be Trump’s signature beneath.
“The oversight committee has secured the notorious ‘Birthday Guide’ that accommodates a word from President Trump that he has stated doesn’t exist,” Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the panel, stated in a press release. “It’s time for the president to inform us the reality about what he knew and launch all of the Epstein recordsdata.”
The White Home didn’t instantly touch upon the letter, however officers sought to discredit the word. Deputy chief of employees for communications, Taylor Budowich, recommended in an X submit carrying a unique model of Trump’s signature that the letter or the signature had been falsified.
“Time for information corp to open that verify guide, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!” Budowich wrote, referencing the defamation go well with that Trump filed towards Information Corp, the mum or dad firm of the Journal, over its authentic story.
Maryland consultant Jamie Raskin known as the letter “sickening” and known as for the complete Epstein recordsdata to be launched. Posting on X, he stated:
Home Democrats fought to carry this sickening letter into the sunshine whereas Trump and MAGA mouthpieces assured us it didn’t exist. Trump even sued the Wall Avenue Journal for reporting on it!
We are able to’t belief a phrase MAGA says. Launch the complete Epstein file NOW!
Learn the complete story right here:
In different developments:
US immigration officers are ramping up immigration sweeps in Los Angeles once more after the supreme courtroom reversed a short lived restraining order that banned the Trump administration from stopping individuals solely based mostly on their race, language or job. In a submit on Twitter/X, Greg Bovino, the pinnacle of US border patrol in Los Angeles, known as the non permanent restraining order “very poorly” written and “the worst” he’s ever seen.
Donald Trump’s second state go to to the UK will see a giant policing operation led by drones within the airspace over Windsor, police have stated. King Charles is to host the US president and his spouse, Melania Trump, at Windsor Fort from 17 to 19 September, the place they are going to be entertained with a ceremonial welcome and state banquet.
Donald Trump launched a vitriolic assault towards Tom Hanks for supposedly being “damaging” and “woke” after one among America’s most beloved actors was snubbed with out a lot clarification by West Level final week. On his social media website on Monday, the US president applauded the alumni affiliation of the US Navy Academy (or West Level) for abruptly calling off a ceremony honoring Hanks, twice an Academy award winner who has performed quite a few army characters and likewise has a protracted historical past of advocating for veterans.
Donald Trump now can’t declare presidential immunity to get off the hook from paying $83.3m in damages to the author E Jean Carroll, a federal appeals courtroom dominated on Monday, upholding a jury’s 2024 award towards the president for defamation. Trump’s attorneys had pointed to the supreme courtroom’s ruling final yr saying the president has immunity for official acts to argue that the damages needs to be overturned.
The US supreme courtroom allowed Donald Trump on Monday to maintain a Democratic member of the Federal Commerce Fee away from her submit for now, quickly pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust.
Intent on vindication after spending 4 months in jail final yr, Donald Trump’s White Home commerce adviser Peter Navarro requested a federal appeals courtroom on Sunday evening to pressure the justice division to elucidate why it will not defend his 2022 conviction for defying a January 6 committee subpoena.
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Sam Levine
Three main students of election legislation are beginning a brand new undertaking at New York College, targeted on finding out public confidence in authorities and political polarization, based on particulars first shared with the Guardian.
The hassle introduced Tuesday, known as the Democracy Venture, will likely be led by NYU legislation professors Richard Pildes, Samuel Issacharoff, and Bob Bauer (Bauer served as Joe Biden’s private legal professional and Barack Obama’s White Home counsel). It can carry collectively consultants with a variety of ideological and political backgrounds to debate what reforms may appear to be.
“Dissatisfaction with democratic authorities has been pervasive for the final decade all through the West. Our intention in launching the Democracy Venture is to investigate the sources of this phenomenon alongside many dimensions and throughout nationwide boundaries, in addition to determine essentially the most promising methods to satisfy this problem,” Pildes, Issacharoff, and Bauer stated in a joint assertion.
The hassle comes as huge numbers of People are involved concerning the state of democracy. A June NPR/Marist ballot discovered that 76% of People felt democracy was below severe risk. Seventy-three p.c of People additionally see politically motivated violence as a significant downside.
The undertaking is launching with an essay collection on democracy points that may launch day by day over the subsequent 100 days. These set to contribute to the collection embrace former Texas solicitor normal Jonathan Mitchell, former Montana governor Steve Bullock, former Justice on UK supreme courtroom Lord Jonathan Sumption, former South Africa supreme courtroom Justice Catherine O’Regan, and businessman Mark Cuban.
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Justice division contemplating handing over voter roll knowledge to homeland safety – report
The Division of Justice is in talks with Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI), housed throughout the Division of Homeland Safety, about transferring the delicate voter roll knowledge it has collected from states to be used in legal and immigration-related investigations, based on a report from Reuters.
The voter registration knowledge was gathered over the past a number of months by the DoJ’s civil rights division, which has despatched requests for voter registration-related data to at the least 24 states, per Reuters.
The report cites authorities data, which present that HSI plans to run the voter roll knowledge towards different data in its legislation enforcement databases to be used in legal and immigration investigations. Authorized consultants who spoke with Reuters stated sharing such knowledge raises privateness considerations.
Donald Trump has routinely claimed, with out proof, that there’s massive scale fraud throughout the US election system, and swathes of non-citizens are casting votes.
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Up to date at 09.59 EDT
My colleague, Oliver Holmes, has been going by means of the Jeffrey Epstein fiftieth birthday album that Home Democrats on the oversight committee launched on Monday, after they subpoenaed Epstein’s property.
As Oliver notes, a lot of the guide appears to be a set of flattering and celebratory letters – usually extremely sexualised – from individuals who knew Epstein. They embrace pictures of him embracing girls in bikinis whose faces have been redacted, and others exhibiting scenes that includes wild animals having intercourse.
A few of the key takeaways from the scrapbook, compiled by longtime confederate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, embrace:
Invoice Clinton, who had left the US presidency a pair years earlier than the publication of the guide, is listed within the “associates” part.
Peter Mandelson, the present UK ambassador to the USA, known as Epstein his “greatest pal”. There are additionally images within the guide which present Mandelson in shorts gazing from a balcony and in a white dressing robe laughing with Epstein.
Some of the placing pictures within the assortment is a drawing of Epstein handing younger ladies balloons and a lollipop in 1983, alongside one other drawing of him 20 years later, receiving a therapeutic massage from topless girls in 2003.
Learn extra in Oliver’s full report beneath:
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Legal professional normal touts greater than 2,100 arrests in DC
Legal professional normal Pam Bondi stated that there had been 2,177 arrests in DC because the starting of the federal legislation enforcement surge within the nation’s capital that started on 7 August.
She additionally stated that 222 unlawful firearms had been seized.
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Up to date at 09.03 EDT
We’ll hear from Donald Trump at 4.30pm ET right this moment, when he indicators a proclamation within the Oval Workplace. The press will likely be permitted, and we are able to count on a collection of questions: from fallout over his alleged Epstein “birthday guide” contribution, to the ramping up of immigration enforcement in Chicago.
Earlier than that, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt will maintain a briefing at 1pm ET, the place reporters will get a chance to query the administration. We’ll carry you the newest because it occurs.
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US supreme courtroom ‘successfully legalized racial profiling’, immigration consultants warn
Lauren Gambino
Immigration advocates warned that the supreme courtroom has “successfully legalized racial profiling”, granting federal brokers the facility to cease individuals in Los Angeles merely for talking Spanish or showing Latino – and opening the door, they are saying, to a broader unraveling of civil rights protections nationwide.
In a 6–3 choice on Monday, the courtroom’s conservative majority lifted restrictions on “roving” immigration patrols throughout the LA space after a decrease courtroom discovered that federal brokers have been indiscriminately focusing on individuals on the premise of race, language, employment or location.
The excessive courtroom’s ruling alarmed civil liberties advocates and rattled immigrant communities in a county the place one in three residents is foreign-born, and the place the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement has already seen armed and masked federal brokers detain residents, together with US residents, close to bus stops, development websites, church buildings and different public areas with little clarification or due course of.
At a information convention close to a Residence Depot in a closely Latino neighborhood of Los Angeles, the place raids in June sparked large protests, town’s mayor, Karen Bass, assailed the choice, saying the supreme courtroom “has now given the inexperienced gentle for legislation enforcement to profile and detain Angelenos based mostly on their race”.
Bass quoted from the forceful dissent issued by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the primary Latina to serve on the courtroom, who warned: “We must always not need to reside in a rustic the place the Authorities can seize anybody who seems Latino, speaks Spanish, and seems to work a low wage job. Somewhat than stand idly by whereas our constitutional freedoms are misplaced, I dissent.”
“I agree along with her – I dissent,” Bass stated. “All of us dissent as a result of from the start, now we have identified that Los Angeles has been used as a check case for complete dominance and unchecked energy by the federal authorities.”
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Texas state consultant James Talarico, a Democrat and former schoolteacher with a rising nationwide profile, joined a widening race for the US Senate on Tuesday that already has two outstanding challengers making an attempt to unseat Republican senator John Cornyn.
Talarico, 36, has gained recognition within the Texas Home by means of viral social media posts difficult Republican-led insurance policies equivalent to personal faculty vouchers and requiring the Ten Commandments in lecture rooms, AP studies. It’s the first statewide race for Talarico, who flipped a seat in Austin’s booming suburbs in 2018.
He’ll search the Democratic nomination in a discipline that features former US consultant Colin Allred, who’s working once more after unsuccessfully difficult Republican senator Ted Cruz final yr.
“I get the sense that there’s a deep starvation throughout the political spectrum for a basically completely different sort of politics,” Talarico stated in an interview forward of his announcement. “It’s been 10 years now of Trumpian politics, politics as a blood sport … and there’s a starvation 10 years later for a return to extra timeless values of sincerity and honesty and compassion and respect.”
Talarico, who has levels from the College of Texas at Austin and Harvard College, is engaged on a Grasp of Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and stated he hopes to sooner or later lead the church he grew up in.
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Boston mayor Michelle Wu, town’s first Asian and feminine chief, is anticipated to take a vital step to securing a second time period when voters on Tuesday slim the sphere to the highest two candidates.
The expectation is that Wu will face towards nonprofit chief Josh Kraft, son of Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, AP studies. Two different candidates, Robert Cappucci and Domingos DaRosa, are additionally working. Cappucci is a army veteran and former district faculty committee member whereas DaRosa is a group activist.
For months, Wu has maintained a double-digit lead over Kraft, regardless of him spending tens of millions of {dollars} of his personal cash on his marketing campaign. Wu has been bolstered partially by her protection of town towards assaults from the Trump administration. Each are Democrats, and the social gathering has occupied Metropolis Corridor for the previous century, although the place is nonpartisan.
Members of president Donald Trump’s administration have accused town of not doing sufficient to crack down on unlawful immigration and threatened a surge in arrests.
Boston is often often known as a sanctuary metropolis, which limits cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Wu has repeatedly stated she desires it to be a welcoming place for immigrants.
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Court docket rejects Trump’s try to overturn E Jean Carroll’s $83m verdict
Sam Levine
Donald Trump now can’t declare presidential immunity to get off the hook from paying $83.3m in damages to the author E Jean Carroll, a federal appeals courtroom dominated on Monday, upholding a jury’s 2024 award towards the president for defamation.
Trump’s attorneys had pointed to the supreme courtroom’s ruling final yr saying the president has immunity for official acts to argue that the damages needs to be overturned. A 3-judge panel for the US courtroom of appeals for the second circuit, rejected that argument.
“The jury’s duly rendered damages awards have been cheap in gentle of the extraordinary and egregious info of this case,” the judges wrote of their unanimous opinion. The panel consisted of judges Denny Chin, an appointee of Barack Obama, in addition to Sarah AL Merriam and Maria Araújo Kahn, each appointees of Joe Biden. Their choice was unanimous.
At an earlier stage within the case, additionally they concluded Trump had waived his proper to argue presidential immunity as a result of he had not raised it earlier.
“We conclude that Trump has did not determine any grounds that will warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity,” the panel wrote. “A case involving the legal prosecution of a former President, didn’t alter the prevailing legislation on whether or not presidential immunity might be waived.” Justin Smith, a lawyer for Trump, had argued that presidential immunity is “not waivable”, based on Politico.
Neither the White Home nor Trump’s private attorneys within the case instantly responded to requests for remark. The second circuit on 13 June upheld Carroll’s separate $5m jury verdict towards Trump in Could 2023 for the same defamation and for sexual assault.
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Donald Trump’s second state go to to the UK will see a giant policing operation led by drones within the airspace over Windsor, police have stated.
King Charles is to host the US president and his spouse, Melania Trump, at Windsor Fort from 17 to 19 September, the place they are going to be entertained with a ceremonial welcome and state banquet.
A round the clock policing operation will likely be in place within the Berkshire city throughout the occasion, with a short lived order limiting the airspace from 16 September – when the state go to rehearsal is to happen – till 18 September.
This implies non-police drones and smaller plane can’t fly by means of the protected space, Thames Valley cops stated on Monday throughout a drone-flying demonstration on the pressure’s coaching centre in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.
The Cease Trump Coalition is to stage a mass demonstration in central London on the primary day of the journey, with an extra protest deliberate close to Windsor Fort.
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US immigration officers ramp up sweeps in LA after raid restrictions are lifted
Johana Bhuiyan
US immigration officers are ramping up immigration sweeps in Los Angeles once more after the supreme courtroom reversed a short lived restraining order that banned the Trump administration from stopping individuals solely based mostly on their race, language or job.
In a submit on Twitter/X, Greg Bovino, the pinnacle of US border patrol in Los Angeles, known as the non permanent restraining order “very poorly” written and “the worst” he’s ever seen. He additionally stated that border patrol can be beginning operations again up once more right this moment.
“We’re going onerous in Los Angeles right this moment and are hitting a location as I write this,” Bovino wrote.
Immigration officers have been pressured to pause their sweeping immigration raids after advocacy teams sued the Trump administration for systemically racially profiling brown-skinned individuals. US district decide in Los Angeles Maame E Frimpong granted the teams a short lived restraining order after discovering a “mountain of proof” that the immigration enforcement techniques have been violating the structure.
However the supreme courtroom dominated 6-3 to carry these restrictions on Monday. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who voted to approve the keep on the order, wrote that the Immigration and Nationality Act permits immigration officers to “interrogate any alien or individual believed to be an alien as to his proper to be or to stay in the USA”. Whereas “ethnicity alone can’t furnish cheap suspicion” it may be used as a “related” issue, he wrote.
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Home committee releases picture of ‘sickening’ Trump birthday word to Epstein
Howdy and welcome to the US politics reside weblog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will likely be bringing you all the newest information strains over the subsequent few hours.
We begin with information that Home Democrats on Monday launched a picture of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing that seems to bear the signature of Donald Trump, the exact same word the president had denied writing after studies of its existence have been printed earlier this yr within the Wall Avenue Journal.
The letter, described as “sickening” by one consultant, was turned over by attorneys for disgraced financier and intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein’s property in response to a subpoena from the Home oversight committee, and was included in a set of notes despatched to the convicted intercourse offender for his fiftieth birthday.
The picture confirmed a letter that in impact comported with an outline within the Journal’s report from July. Contained in the sketch of a lady’s torso, the word depicts an imagined dialog between Trump and Epstein, with what seemed to be Trump’s signature beneath.
“The oversight committee has secured the notorious ‘Birthday Guide’ that accommodates a word from President Trump that he has stated doesn’t exist,” Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the panel, stated in a press release. “It’s time for the president to inform us the reality about what he knew and launch all of the Epstein recordsdata.”
The White Home didn’t instantly touch upon the letter, however officers sought to discredit the word. Deputy chief of employees for communications, Taylor Budowich, recommended in an X submit carrying a unique model of Trump’s signature that the letter or the signature had been falsified.
“Time for information corp to open that verify guide, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!” Budowich wrote, referencing the defamation go well with that Trump filed towards Information Corp, the mum or dad firm of the Journal, over its authentic story.
Maryland consultant Jamie Raskin known as the letter “sickening” and known as for the complete Epstein recordsdata to be launched. Posting on X, he stated:
Home Democrats fought to carry this sickening letter into the sunshine whereas Trump and MAGA mouthpieces assured us it didn’t exist. Trump even sued the Wall Avenue Journal for reporting on it!
We are able to’t belief a phrase MAGA says. Launch the complete Epstein file NOW!
Learn the complete story right here:
In different developments:
US immigration officers are ramping up immigration sweeps in Los Angeles once more after the supreme courtroom reversed a short lived restraining order that banned the Trump administration from stopping individuals solely based mostly on their race, language or job. In a submit on Twitter/X, Greg Bovino, the pinnacle of US border patrol in Los Angeles, known as the non permanent restraining order “very poorly” written and “the worst” he’s ever seen.
Donald Trump’s second state go to to the UK will see a giant policing operation led by drones within the airspace over Windsor, police have stated. King Charles is to host the US president and his spouse, Melania Trump, at Windsor Fort from 17 to 19 September, the place they are going to be entertained with a ceremonial welcome and state banquet.
Donald Trump launched a vitriolic assault towards Tom Hanks for supposedly being “damaging” and “woke” after one among America’s most beloved actors was snubbed with out a lot clarification by West Level final week. On his social media website on Monday, the US president applauded the alumni affiliation of the US Navy Academy (or West Level) for abruptly calling off a ceremony honoring Hanks, twice an Academy award winner who has performed quite a few army characters and likewise has a protracted historical past of advocating for veterans.
Donald Trump now can’t declare presidential immunity to get off the hook from paying $83.3m in damages to the author E Jean Carroll, a federal appeals courtroom dominated on Monday, upholding a jury’s 2024 award towards the president for defamation. Trump’s attorneys had pointed to the supreme courtroom’s ruling final yr saying the president has immunity for official acts to argue that the damages needs to be overturned.
The US supreme courtroom allowed Donald Trump on Monday to maintain a Democratic member of the Federal Commerce Fee away from her submit for now, quickly pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust.
Intent on vindication after spending 4 months in jail final yr, Donald Trump’s White Home commerce adviser Peter Navarro requested a federal appeals courtroom on Sunday evening to pressure the justice division to elucidate why it will not defend his 2022 conviction for defying a January 6 committee subpoena.
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