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Former Twitter executives said Wednesday that they erred in temporarily blocking a story about the laptop of President Joe Biden's son Hunter during the 2020 election, but said there had been no coordinated government or campaign effort to pressure them into the decision and broadly defended their work on the platform's content moderation.
The Judiciary Committee advanced 24 judicial picks to the full Senate Thursday in a marathon voting session that underscored Democrats' new advantage in their expanded majority and the potentially bitter partisan divide on nominations that could play out for the next two years.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued his first subpoenas of Biden administration officials Friday, demanding documents concerning the administration's warnings about and responses to harassment and threats against school officials, which Republicans have castigated as intimidation of parents.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized one of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees Tuesday, questioning the Washington state judge's qualifications for the federal bench because of her performance in a hearing last week.
Senate Democrats restarted their judicial confirmation efforts Wednesday with a hearing featuring five district court picks who were announced last year, including just the second trial court nominee from President Joe Biden in a red state to appear before lawmakers.