âNot a fair trialâ: Verdict divides the US While many Americans were celebrating Derek Chauvinâs murder conviction this week, others were convinced he didnât get a fair trial, says Sam Clench.
Crime by Sam Clench
COMMENT You can believe your eyes, prosecutors told the jury in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of murdering George Floyd this week. Use your common sense. A simple message, for a simple case. The murder was recorded on video in its entirety: the moment Chauvin first dug his knee into Mr Floyd s neck; the 27 times Mr Floyd said he couldn t breathe; the minutes Chauvin stayed on top of him after he had stopped moving. Even after being told he had no pulse.
And moments before this week’s vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
“As my friend the leader knows, we haven’t had all the resolutions that have been introduced on my side of the aisle,” Hoyer said as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
“This makes it harder, however, not to proceed on numerous resolutions on my side of the aisle,” he added.
The threat underscores how lawmakers have fewer qualms about imposing punishments as severe as censure or expulsion against each other as they continue to harbor fury over the insurrection more than three months ago.
It’s also a reflection of an ever-more-polarized environment where lawmakers are quicker to turn to demanding maximum sanctions when they’re outraged over conduct by members of the opposing party.
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An American Repudiation of Tlaib and Waters
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House Democrats have produced two radical demagogues whose policies would endanger the lives of innocent Americans, lead to the breakdown of society, and undermine the U.S. Constitution.
Specifically, Reps. Maxine Waters and Rashida Tlaib have recently acted in ways that reflect unfavorably on the House of Representatives and betray their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Congresswoman Waters flew to Minnesota while the murder trial of Officer Derek Chauvin was in progress and said, “we are looking for a guilty verdict.” If Chauvin is not found guilty of murdering George Floyd in May 2020, Waters said, “We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business. … We cannot go away.”
With new goal of cutting greenhouse gases in half, Biden will signal US is again fighting climate change
Updated April 21, 2021, 1 hour ago
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In this Feb. 1, photo, emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Independence, Mo.Charlie Riedel/Associated Press
President Biden will announce Thursday that the United States intends to cut planet-warming emissions nearly in half by the end of the decade, which would require Americans to transform the way they drive, heat their homes, and manufacture goods.
The target, confirmed by three people briefed on the plan, is timed to a closely watched global summit Biden is hosting Thursday and Friday, which is aimed at sending a message the United States is rejoining international efforts to fight global warming after four years of climate-change denial from the Trump administration.