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A judge has blocked pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation from the US. New York judge Jesse Furman issued the order on Monday after Donald Trump confirmed the arrest of the permanent US resident with a green card. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday.
The US senate on Monday confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer to serve as Donald Trump’s Labor secretary in a vote that drew rare bipartisan support and opposition. In a 67-32 vote, 17 Democrats joined most Republicans to support Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries rejected Republicans’ go-it-alone strategy to avert a government shutdown, saying Democrats would not back their plan to fund federal agencies through the rest of the fiscal year.
Los Angeles district attorney Nathan Hochman says that he opposes the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted for the 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Today’s final numbers from Wall Street are out and the three main indices have continued to drop. The S&P 500 fell 2.7%, the Dow Jones dropped 2%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 4% as investors sold shares in the so-called “magnificent seven” – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Tesla.
The US senate on Monday confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer to serve as Donald Trump’s Labor secretary in a vote that drew rare bipartisan support and opposition.
In a 67-32 vote, 17 Democrats joined most Republicans to support Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination. Three Republicans, including former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell opposed her nomination, on the grounds that she was too pro-labor.
Trump’s choice of Chavez-DeRemer, a former congresswoman from Oregon whose father was a member of the Teamsters union, was seen as a nod to the support he drew from union households that were once a cornerstone of Democrats’ coalition.
Several prominent labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, endorsed her nomination.It made for a strange re-orientation, with pro-workers’ rights Democrats and anti-union Republicans questioning her relatively pro-labor record. Pressed on her past support for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act– the so-called Pro Act – during her confirmation hearing, she demurred: “I do not believe the secretary of labor should write the laws.”
