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Senate set to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for upcoming Supreme Court vacancy

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, the end of a historic nomination process streaked with acrimony even for a justice who will not alter the court’s current conservative tilt.

Tribune News Service

Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson for upcoming Supreme Court vacancy

Tribune News Service

Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history as first Black woman Supreme Court Justice

Senate votes through Joe Biden’s nominee after weeks of contentious hearings

The Independent UK

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Republicans’ ugly attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson show lurch to far right

The QAnon-tinged questioning at Senate hearings for the supreme court justice displayed a party in thrall to conspiracy theories

The Guardian - US

From Pat Toomey to Dr. Oz: The Pennsylvania Senate Race Reflects the GOP's Descent Into Madness

Donald Trump's staying power and the decline of fusionism are on full display in this primary race.

Reason

LZ Granderson: Stand back, because Lindsey Graham keeps flip-flopping like crazy

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to be confirmed this week after a bipartisan group of senators voted on Monday to advance her nomination. So far only three Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have said they will support Jackson.…

Los Angeles Times

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a menace to decency

In the wake of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Greene took to social media to smear the soon-to-be justice and the senators who will be voting to confirm her, including three Republicans.

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What happens if the Senate’s Covid-19 relief bill fails? Here’s what is at stake

The Senate has reached an impasse on Covid-19 funding

The Independent UK

Aviation program offset blows budget hole in Senate's COVID-19 aid plan - Roll Call

To win Republican support, Senate negotiators promised that a bipartisan COVID-19 aid package would be fully paid for.

Roll Call

Editorial: Time to confirm a clearly qualified judge

The U.S. Senate should confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who clearly is qualified to ascend to the Supreme Court. As the first Black woman ever to be appointed to that court, and as a jurist of calm, distinction and intellectual heft, she deserves more bipartisan support.

Chicago Tribune

The View calls GOP hypocrisy "pathetic"

"This [SCOTUS selection] process has become so political, which it should never have been"

Salon

Analysis: 3 GOP senators buck party to back Biden court pick

Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

MTG leads GOP revolt against GOP senator

Greene is a close ally of Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is under a federal probe over possible sexual relations with a minor

Salon

‘Feels like the good old days’: Joe Biden welcomes Barack Obama back to White House – as it happened

Former president returns to mark 12 years of Affordable Care Act, his signature legislative achievement – follow the day’s politics news

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First Thing: Zelenskiy warns of worse atrocities yet to be uncovered in Ukraine

Ukraine’s president prepares to address UN security council but casts doubt on meeting Putin. Plus, why it’s over for fossil fuels

The Independent UK

Murkowski, Romney back Jackson, all but assure confirmation

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first Black woman on the high court

The Independent UK

Democratic, GOP Senate bargainers reach $10B COVID agreement

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps

The Independent UK

Romney and Murkowksi support Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination

Two Republicans join Senator Susan Collins of Maine in supporting President Joe Biden’s nominee.

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Axios

Murkowski, Romney announce support for Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination

Jackson's confirmation is all but a sure thing.

Axios

Senators reach deal on bipartisan $10 billion COVID package

The White House had raised alarm bells about insufficient funding to ward off future pandemics and Covid-19 surges.

The Independent UK

AP sources: $10B Senate COVID deal, but without global money

Democrats and Republicans familiar with negotiations say a bipartisan group of senators have agreed to a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19

Benzinga

Mitt Romney Says Senators Reached Tentative $10B Deal In Additional COVID-19 Relief Funding: CNBC

Senate Republicans and Democrats have reportedly reached a tentative deal on $10 billion in additional COVID-19 funding to shore up the nation’s pandemic preparedness. Senator Mitt Romney told reporters he had a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, to cover the spending by redirecting money from the American Rescue Plan…

The Independent UK

Bargainers: Bipartisan deal near on trimmed $10B COVID bill

Lawmakers have moved to the brink of clinching a scaled-back bipartisan compromise to provide a fresh $10 billion to combat COVID-19

Tribune News Service

Senate close to COVID-19 aid deal; global funds in question

Senators negotiating a COVID-19 supplemental funding package have an “agreement in principle” to provide roughly $10 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to stock up on waning domestic supplies for combating the virus, according to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.

The Guardian - US

‘I know how much it hurts’: Biden to release US oil in bid to lower gas prices – as it happened

President lays out plan to free 1m daily barrels from US oil reserve, and suggests Putin ‘may be in self-isolation’

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