![]() ![]() Biden stands 'squarely behind' troop withdrawal World leaders came out with varying statements of solidarity with the Afghan people, condemnation of the Taliban and warnings about those who might seek refuge from the new ultraconservative Islamist regime. Military aircraft from the US, Germany and other countries were involved in evacuation operations at the Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) where foreigners and Afghans alike made desperate attempts to flee the Taliban's advance. Please stick with us.The US and the rest of the international community scrambled on Monday to react to the shocking fall of Kabul to the Taliban the day before. We’ll have all that, and more, coming up. It comes as the Guardian reveals new details of the timeline of federal prosecutors’ investigations of the former president. Trump’s lawyers have received the first batch of evidence against him from the justice department after his indictment for illegally retaining classified documents. There’s fallout from a sloppy day in the House, in which Republicans voted to censure California Democrat Adam Schiff for leading investigations into Donald Trump and rightwingers Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were at each other’s throats over efforts to impeach Biden. We’ll hear from both leaders at a lunchtime press conference. The day also has big significance for the president as he woos a potential ally in resisting both Russia’s war in Ukraine China’s rising global influence. Indian’s prime minister Narendra Modi has a big day in Washington DC, meeting Biden at the White House this morning and addressing a joint session of congress this afternoon. We’ll bring you news from the supreme court as we get it. But among the “blockbusters” still outstanding are challenges to Joe Biden’s student loan relief program, and rulings on LGBTQ+ rights and the role of race in college admissions procedures.Īdding spice to all this: the ongoing ethics scandal involving justice Samuel Alito, and his taking of undeclared gifts from a billionaire. We don’t yet know which cases will be among today’s batch, which are expected to start filtering through at 10am ET. Justices at the supreme court are on the final lap of their current decisions season, with fewer than two dozen rulings yet to drop in the session ending this month. Good morning politics blog readers, welcome to a busy Thursday. While we wait, here’s Guardian columnist Margaret Sullivan’s take on the Alito scandal: We’ll bring you today’s decisions as they drop. ![]() That, and ongoing controversies over justice Clarence Thomas ’s conduct, have worked to erode public confidence in the supreme court. While the cases are certainly consequential, there’s at least equal interest in the latest ethics scandal sweeping the supreme court, with conservative justice Samuel Alito at the center of a storm over accepting free gifts from a billionaire that he later failed to disclose. In the first, six Republican-led states are challenging the Biden administration’s right to write off student debt.ģ03 Creative v Elenis is a case covering a company’s right to refuse to design wedding websites for same-sex couples and Moore v Harper is a case from North Carolina covering a state’s authority to regulate federal elections without interference from the courts. Two of them, Biden v Nebraska, and Department of Education v Brown, relate to the president’s plans for relief from student loans. ![]()
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