Rep. Kendrick Meek and Judge Leslie Meek
1 REP. KENDRICK MEEK AND JUDGE LESLIE MEEK
Carrying out his mother’s legacy in Congress since 2003, Meek hopes to win the vacant Florida U.S. Senate seat in 2010. Judge Leslie Meek is an administrative law judge in the District, and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses Organization.
2 JEFFREY BADER AND ROHINI TALALLA
She’s an academic and indie documentary filmmaker. He is senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council and an expert at the Brookings Institution. Bader joined Brookings after a 27-year career in the State Department, National Security Council, and office of the US Trade Representative.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, the favorite to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as the HouseGOP conference chair, voted with former President Donald Trump less than Cheney and has lower voting scores from top conservative organizations.
According to a tool on the FiveThirtyEight website on Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump, Cheney, R-Wyo., voted with Trump 92.9% of the time compared to 77.7% for Stefanik, R-N.Y.
The conservative group Heritage Action, meanwhile, gave Cheney a 91% score compared to just 56% for Stefanik during the most recent Congress. And the American Conservative Union, which hosted the extraordinarily pro-Trump Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) earlier this year, gives Cheney a 78% rating compared to just 44% for Stefanik.
Sounds like it’s a done deal.
Former President Trump officially endorses Rep. Elise Stefanik for GOP Conference Chair: pic.twitter.com/zfRIB7qvhc
BREAKING: @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy and @SteveScalise turn on Cheney, back Stefanik for conference chair.@PunchbowlNews AM is out https://t.co/4XGDpUp2KJ
Stefanik tells colleagues she has wide backing from moderates in Tuesday Group to conservatives in the Freedom Caucus and that Trump is backing her, per multiple sources.
Cheney is indicating to her allies she is not fighting this, saying it s not worth lying to keep her post
A source close to Cheney summed up for WaPo why she’s not bummed about losing her leadership role: “She’s not going to be a good messenger if it requires lying.” The caucus wants someone who’ll be agnostic at best and a liar at worst about whether the election was stolen from Trump and whether the insurrection wasn’t that bad. Someone whose raw ambition will lead her to pander to any constituency
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Supreme Court Seems Unlikely to Support Reduced Sentences for Crack Offenders Getty Images Kevin Daley • May 4, 2021 4:30 pm
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In its latest foray into the war on drugs, the Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed ready to say that low-level crack cocaine offenders do not qualify for reduced sentences under a bipartisan criminal justice reform law.
The 2018 First Step Act made some drug offenders eligible for resentencing, but four federal courts and the Trump administration said its benefits don t extend to people convicted for possessing small quantities of crack cocaine. Tarahrick Terry, the defendant in Tuesday s case, was convicted for possessing a few grams of crack in 2008 and is seeking a lighter sentence for himself and others like him, but the Court seemed to be against him by a lopsided margin.