President Joe Biden is planning a new wave of executive orders and actions this week as he looks to further dismantle many of former President Donald Trump's policies and address a slate of Democratic priorities as quickly as he can.
Chief Justice John Roberts won’t preside over the Senate impeachment trial
From CNN s Manu Raju and Joan Biskupic
Chief Justice John Roberts leads the US Supreme Court Justices as they arrive in the Crypt of the US Capitol for President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 in Washington. Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool/AP
Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont and the President pro tempore of the Senate, is expected to preside in the impeachment trial, according to two sources familiar with the matter, not Chief Justice John Roberts.
Senators preside when the person facing trial isn t the current president of the United States, one source said.
Tributes poured in for the new Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, which immediately got to work and sent out 17 executive orders addressing immigration policy, the COVID pandemic, and climate change,
The incoming Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to immediately revoke implementation of the public charge rule, easing anxiety for millions of immigrants who have denied themselves federal benefits over the past three years for fear of losing their ability to upgrade their immigration status.
“Public charge will be a front-burner issue for the new administration because it is so entwined with our current public health crisis and connected to the pandemic,” said Daniel Sharp, chief of the Office of Immigrant Affairs in Los Angeles County’s Department of Consumer and Business Affairs. “We do expect the new administration to prioritize the issue,” he said in an interview with EMS, noting that President-elect Joe Biden had committed to ending the rule while campaigning for office.
The incoming Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to immediately revoke implementation of the public charge rule, easing anxiety for millions of immigrants who have denied themselves federal benefits over the past three years for fear of losing their ability to upgrade their immigration status.
âPublic charge will be a front-burner issue for the new administration because it is so entwined with our current public health crisis and connected to the pandemic,â said Daniel Sharp, chief of the Office of Immigrant Affairs in Los Angeles Countyâs Department of Consumer and Business Affairs. âWe do expect the new administration to prioritize the issue,â he said in an interview with EMS, noting that President-elect Joe Biden had committed to ending the rule while campaigning for office.