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Manufacturing Anti-Immigrant Hysteria

President-elect Donald Trump falsely blamed unlawful immigration and claimed private vindication within the violent assault that killed 15 New 12 months’s revelers in New Orleans.

In a Fact Social publish the morning of the assault, Trump manufactured hysteria over “criminals coming in” to the nation. Trump continued to falsely blame “Biden ‘Open Border’s Coverage’” Thursday morning, lengthy after incorrect experiences – that the rented truck within the New Orleans assault was pushed throughout the border from Mexico – had been debunked.

The alleged attacker was a local born U.S. citizen and Military veteran from Texas.

In each posts, Trump crowed that the assault proved him appropriate.

Dying Toll In New Orleans Assault Stands At 15

• A Texas man killed 15 individuals and injured greater than 30 others when he drove a rented pickup truck flying an Islamic State flag down Bourbon Road early New 12 months’s Day.
• Bourbon Road was closed to vehicular site visitors, however the wrongdoer managed to plow by means of momentary barricades in place whereas a everlasting system of bollards had been being changed with a more recent system.
• Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the alleged wrongdoer within the assault, was killed in a shootout with police.

In the meantime, In Las Vegas …

Investigators are exploring whether or not there’s any hyperlink between the New Orleans assault and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck on the Trump Worldwide Lodge in Las Vegas on New 12 months’s Day. The driving force of the car was killed within the incident:

WATCH: The second a Tesla Cybertruck exploded this morning in entrance of Trump Worldwide Lodge in Las Vegas

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) January 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM

The Cybertruck was reportedly rented in Colorado by means of the Turo app, the identical methodology used to acquire the truck within the New Orleans assault. The FBI and ATF are “conducting operations and searches in Colorado Springs” as a part of the investigation, ABC Information reported.

Mike Johnson’s Slim Path To The Speakership

With Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lined up as a agency no towards re-electing Rep. Mike Johnson as Home speaker, all eyes flip to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). The lack of two GOP votes needs to be sufficient to disclaim Johnson election as speaker, which means that he has a slender path to victory and avoiding one other extended stretch of chaos during which the Home GOP majority is unable to elect anybody as speaker. The primary vote on speaker is anticipated Friday.

Quote Of The Day

“In the event that they thought I had no Fs to present earlier than, I undoubtedly haven’t any Fs to present now.”–Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who’s against Rep. Mike Johnson’s reelection as speaker of the Home

Home GOP To Make It More durable To Take away Speaker

Beneath a brand new guidelines package deal unveiled this week, Home Republicans would increase the bar for eradicating the speaker by growing the variety of members required to set off a movement to vacate from one to 9.

Proof Of Citizenship To Vote Is A Prime GOP Precedence

Among the many first dozen payments the Home GOP majority is aiming to move within the new Congress is one to require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

Taking On Massive Tax Prep

TPM’s Hunter Walker: Ron Wyden’s Combat For Free Tax Submitting Is A Blueprint For Future Democratic Battles Towards Trump

Biden To Honor Liz Cheney

In a White Home ceremony in the present day, President Biden will bestow the Presidential Residents Medal, the second highest honor for American civilians, on 20 recipients, together with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who served as chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Home Jan. 6 committee.

Assessing Biden’s Influence On The Federal Courts

The WSJ’s Jan Wolfe:

A lot of Biden’s appointees … succeeded different like-minded judges, which means that the general ideological dynamics didn’t change a lot.

The place Biden made an enduring affect, nevertheless, was in appointing judges that symbolize a broader swath of America. …

One other Biden precedence was deciding on nominees with a broader array {of professional} expertise, together with by appointing former federal public defenders to a judiciary that has been disproportionately represented by former prosecutors.

Scathing Opinions Of Chief Justice’s Annual Report

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a spicier-than-usual annual report on the judiciary,

• “The chief justice stated nothing concerning the Supreme Court docket’s personal actions that may have contributed to a diminished public standing, together with a string of conservative selections that independents and Democrats contemplate partisan slightly than principled and a refusal to undertake an enforceable code of conduct regardless of moral clouds surrounding some justices’ conduct.”–WSJ
• “[T]he 9 pages from Roberts come throughout as extra of a lashing out than a reasoned report. … The tip result’s a chilling, if imprecise, condemnation by Roberts of the widespread opposition to the extremism exhibited by the excessive courtroom in its selections and the moral failings of justices accountable for these selections.”–Chris Geidner
• “[T]he Chief Justice’s report not solely fails to even acknowledge the general public discourse; it takes a place that’s both wholly detached or remarkably oblivious to it—providing a remarkably un-nuanced view of when criticism crosses the road into ‘illegitimate exercise.’ Within the course of, the report additionally neglects to acknowledge what’s, for my part, an excellent larger menace to judicial independence in the present day: the persevering with erosion of public religion within the courts that’s mirrored in (however not prompted by) a lot of the good-faith criticism that’s on the market. In these respects, not less than, it’s a remarkably tone-deaf missive from somebody who must know higher.”–Steve Vladeck

Trans Assaults Watch

• Among the many first dozen payments the Home GOP majority has teed up for the brand new Congress is one to amend Title IX to offer that in athletics “intercourse shall be acknowledged primarily based solely on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at delivery.”
• Texas Legal professional Normal Ken Paxton sues NCAA over transgender athletes competing in girls’s sports activities.
• Extra battles over transgender rights await Supreme Court docket.

A Triple Menace To Humanity

In a brief new essay, Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez determine local weather change, pandemics, and anti-science disinformation because the gravest perils to human civilization.

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