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US onAir – 1/20/22

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Secretary Blinken gives remarks on tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine
CNN, January 20, 2022 – 9:45 am (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/us-transfer-weapons-ukraine/index.html

Jan. 6 committee requests interview with Ivanka Trump
Associated Press, Jill Colvin and Farnoush AmiriJanuary 20, 2022

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily cooperate with its probe.

The committee sent a letter Thursday requesting a meeting with Ivanka Trump, who served as an adviser to her father, in early February. In the letter, committee chairman Bennie Thompson says she was in direct contact with her father during key moments of Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to halt certification of Joe Biden’s presidential win.

The committee says it wants to discuss what Ivanka Trump knew about her father’s efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the 2020 election results — including a telephone call they say she witnessed — as well as concerns that she may have heard from Pence’s staff, members of Congress and the White House counsel’s office about those plans.

The panel cited testimony that Ivanka Trump implored her father to quell the violence by his supporters and said it wants to ask about her actions while the insurrection was underway.

Supreme Court rejects another attempt to block Texas’ six-week abortion ban
CNN, Ariane de VogueJanuary 20, 2022

Over the furious dissent of three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected another attempt by abortion providers to block Texas’ six-week abortion ban.

The court’s order is the latest setback for providers who are trying to revive challenges to the law five months after it was allowed to go into effect, bringing a halt to most abortions in the country’s second-largest state.

The three liberal justices wrote a scathing dissent.

“This case is a disaster for the rule of law and a grave disservice to women in Texas, who have a right to control their own bodies,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. “I will not stand by silently as a State continues to nullify this constitutional guarantee.”

Last month, the Supreme Court allowed the controversial law to remain in effect but it cleared limited path forward for the providers to sue a handful of licensing officials in Texas in order to block them from enforcing the law. The court’s ruling was a devastating blow to supporters of abortion rights who had hoped the justices would block the law outright. Instead, the case was returned to the conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals.

Bipartisan group of senators seeks common ground on changing Electoral Count Act
CNN, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Clare ForanJanuary 20, 2022

A bipartisan effort in the Senate is underway to overhaul a 19th century law that has come under scrutiny in the wake of last year’s January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden have been pushing for the passage of more sweeping election overhaul and voting rights legislation, but have repeatedly hit a wall in the Senate amid Republican opposition. On Wednesday, Democrats tried and failed to change Senate rules in their latest effort to pass a voting rights bill. In the aftermath of that defeat, bipartisan talks focused on the Electoral Count Act — a law dating back to 1887 that details how Congress counts Electoral College votes from each state — are now gaining momentum.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah both confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers will have a series of video meetings starting in the next several days to see if they could agree on a deal soon. It’s still too early, Collins warned, to know if a deal might be ready to vote on when they return from next week’s recess. “We don’t know how long it is going to take,” she said.

Collins said there were six Democrats working with the group of Republicans and that they have already talked to election officials, professors and other voting experts to try and clarify the Electoral Count Act.

Biden Faces Year Two With Control Of Congress, Democracy On The Line
MSNBCJanuary 20, 2022 (08:17)
PBS NewsHour live episode, Jan. 20, 2022
Associated Press, January 20, 2022 – 6:00 pm (ET)

https://apnews.com/article/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-bennie-thompson-elections-election-2020-b974bb17f8ce4ea0200f3b016e50176b

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