Sam Levine has analyzed Biden’s speech in Austin. He writes: “The reforms themselves are significant, but just a small sliver of what activists and others have been pushing for over the last few years.”
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Summary
Here are a few of the key events from the world of politics today:
Joe Biden delivered a speech at an event celebrating the 60th anniversary of the US Civil Rights Act. During the talk, he warned of the dangers of the supreme court’s extremism and promised reforms on term limits, the ethics code and a recent ruling on presidential immunity.
House speaker Mike Johnson and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the seven Republicans and six Democrats who will sit on the taskforce to investigate the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his Twitter/X account.
A trial looming in a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s abortion ban was canceled Monday as the judge in the case, state district judge Bruce Romanick, weighs whether to throw out the lawsuit. It was not immediately clear why the trial was canceled.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer told a CBS interviewer that she has not been a part of the vetting process for Kamala Harris’s running mate. But she expects the presumptive Democratic nominee to announce her vice-presidential pick “in the next six, seven days”.
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