Will the National Mall be closed? What about First Amendment activities?
National Mall Superintendent Jeff Reinbold said the National Parks Service had worked with groups already permitted to use the area next week to find other venues for their activities. But, Reinbold said, there will be spaces for First Amendment activities on Inauguration Day, despite the Mall being closed.
“We are the premier First Amendment area in the country, in the world probably, and we wanted to see if we could do that,” Reinbold said.
Those areas will be located on Pennsylvania Avenue at the Navy Memorial and John Marshall Park. Reinbold said those wanting to exercise their First Amendment rights will have to pass through a magnetometer and will be escorted in and out of the area by U.S. Park Police.
Enhanced security measures, including razor wire atop a security fence surrounding the U.S. Capitol, are being implemented across the nation in preparation for next week s Presidential inauguration.
Law enforcement officials are bracing for possible serious security breaches and violent assaults ahead of President-elect Joe Biden s swearing in next week. State and federal officials are taking no chances as the countdown begins for Inauguration Day.
The heightened security comes after a violent siege at the U.S. Capitol last week from pro-Trump supporters that resulted in the death of five people and forced lawmakers into hiding.
The FBI is seeing an extensive amount of concerning online chatter.about a number of events surrounding the inauguration, according to the bureau s director Christopher Wray.
$100,000 For Toilet As Ivanka Trump Wouldn t Let Secret Service Use Hers A White House spokesperson denied that Trump and Kushner restricted agents from their 5,000-square-foot home, with its six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms, and asserted that it was the Secret Service s decision not to allow the protective detail inside.
Updated: January 15, 2021 11:46 am IST
Basement being used by Secret Service is across the street from home of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Many U.S. Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington s elite Kalorama neighborhood, home over the years to Cabinet secretaries and former presidents. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secure perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, they had a new worry: finding a toilet.
Security concerns in Washington, D.C., ahead of the scheduled inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden have resulted in some scheduling changes, Biden’s staff said Thursday, according to a report.
A rehearsal for Joe Biden’s inauguration that was originally scheduled for Sunday has been postponed due to security concerns in the wake of last week’s…