Trump's Attorney General Announces Return of Federal Capital Punishment After 20 Years – Live | American News

Asset just ended a speech at a ceremony welcoming the new Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper.

"You will do a great job. I have absolutely no doubt, "said Trump of Esper. The former staff member and Republican lobbyist got confirmation from the Senate earlier this week by 90 votes to 8.

He will be the first permanent leader of the Pentagon since Jim Mattis, who resigned for political disputes with Trump and left the Department of Defense in January.

Brian HastingsHead of the operations of maintaining the order of the customs police and border protection, contradicted a report according to which a child of three years migrant girl forced to choose which of her parents would stay with her in the United States, while the other was sent back to Mexico.

NPR reported earlier this month that a Honduran girl named Sofia was facing a heartbreaking choice at a border patrol detention center in El Paso, Texas. "The agent asked her who she wanted to go with, dad or mom," Sofia's mother, Tania, said through an interpreter. "And the girl, because she's more attached to me," she said to Mom. But when they started taking [my husband] away, the girl started to cry. The officer said, "You said [you want to go] with mom. & # 39; "

But at a hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House, Hastings asserted that the child did not choose the parent who would be deported and who would stay in the United States. He added that the entire family had been sent back to Mexico, but had been briefly detained in separate cells while being treated in a detention center. According to Hastings, Sofia was only asked what parent cell she wanted to wait.

Only a fraction of the house Republican caucus should support budget agreement negotiated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Even if Asset at request Republican lawmakers will support the two-year deal that would have the effect of raising the debt ceiling and ending the sharp annual spending cuts, party leadership in the House expects most members of his caucus voted "no" to this agreement.

Whip of the House Steve Scalise Trump's support tweet "helps" strengthen support within the caucus. But he added, "We heard a lot of members say that they voted" No ", regardless of the circumstances."

The President has already stated that he supported the agreement, but the idea of ​​signing a massive finance bill passed for the most part with Democratic support can make him reconsider.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris came out strongly against the Department of JusticeThe announcement of its recovery Capital punishment after a period of 16 years of politics.

The Californian senator has a unique history in this area. She has always opposed the death penalty, a position that has landed her more than once.

Specifically, while Harris was a San Francisco attorney, she refused to seek the death sentence on the man ultimately found guilty of killing police officer Isaac Espinoza. This decision was criticized by law enforcement and even by some fellow Harris Democrats, such as the senator Dianne Feinstein.

A migrant child reported being "beaten and abused" while being held in a facility in Clint, Texas.

The alleged abuse allegedly took place on 12 March and is still under investigation by the Customs and border protectionNBC News, internal watchdog. The allegation follows further accusations of abuse against migrant children, including an alleged sexual assault on a girl at a facility in Yuma, Arizona.

House Democrats should consider the alleged abuses during a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on Trump AdministrationThe separation policy of migrant families and the conditions of detention centers. The audience is already in progress and can be viewed live here.

the US Federal Government He has not executed a death row since 2003, when Louis Jones Jr. was put to death for the rape and murder of Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride.

McBride was kidnapped at a Texas air base in 1995 and beaten to death with a tire iron, a murder Jones confessed.

Jones died by injection eight years later at the federal penitentiary near Terre Haute, in Indiana, where was the same Department of Justice plans to carry out five more executions between December and January.

The five executions scheduled by the Department of Justice should take place between 9 December and 15 January.

The department said the executions would be held at the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, adding that additional executions "will be scheduled at a later date".

"Each of these detainees has exhausted his appeals and convictions, and no legal impediment currently prevents them from being executed," the Justice Ministry said in a statement.

the Department of JusticeIn his statement on the return of capital punishment, the first person to be executed belonged to a group of white supremacists.

"Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a group of white supremacists, murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl," reads the statement from the Department of Justice. Lee was convicted of three counts of murder, among others, in 1999. The department set its execution on December 9.

Asset has already downplayed the growing threat of white nationalism and white supremacy. After an attack of white supremacy on two mosques of New Zealand In March, leaving 49 people dead, he was asked if he saw white nationalism as a growing threat in the world. "I do not really know," said Trump. "I think it's a small group of people who have very, very serious problems."

the Department of Justice In a statement, he said that he would resume capital punishment after nearly two decades of inactivity.

The statement noted that Attorney General William Barr asked the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five death row prisoners, the first scheduled for 9 December.

"Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation passed by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the president," Barr said. "The Department of Justice respects the rule of law – and we need to enforce our justice system's punishment of victims and their families."

Nancy Pelosi told a CNN reporter that she had "never" discouraged her Democratic colleagues in the House to support a Accused investigation against Asset and that they must follow their own instinct in this matter.

But reports began to emerge last night that the Speaker of the House had rejected efforts to launch a dismissal special advocate Robert MuellerThe testimony of

Some Democrats in the House also have a deadline for the next break, according to their CNN. They fear that the impeachment issue will run out of steam if it is not addressed before the August parliamentary recess.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg raises his eyebrows with his heavy bill for private jet trips.

The mayor of the millennial generation has spent $ 300,000 in private jets this year, more than any other Democratic presidential candidate, reports the AP.

The Buttigieg campaign defended charter flights as a necessary expense, given its headquarters in South Bend, Indiana. "We pay attention to the way we spend our money and we fly commercial flights as often as possible," said a spokeswoman for Buttigieg. "We do not fly for commercial purposes when the schedule dictates."

But his competitors already seem to jump on the potential blunder. "No private planes for this campaign" Beto O'Rourke in a video posted Monday on the YouTube channel of his campaign.

The pair of candidates may have a chance to tackle the travel issue next week. They share the same scene the first night of proceedings in Detroit.

Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW of North America have reached an agreement with California to produce more fuel efficient cars in the USA.

The deal could undermine the Trump AdministrationEfforts to soften fuel consumption standards for US cars.

The Washington Post reports:

Mary D. Nichols, California's highest authority in charge of air pollution, said in an interview Wednesday that she considered this deal as a potential "olive branch" for the Trump administration and the government. hoped that it would join the agreement, which would give the builders flexibility to achieve the emissions targets without the "massive setback" contained in the current White House proposal. …

In a joint statement, the four companies said their decision to enter into an agreement with California was driven by a need for predictability, as well as a desire to reduce compliance costs, keep vehicles affordable for customers and to be good stewards of the environment.

Asset is ready to tweet about the two-year budget agreement that would raise the debt ceiling and put an end to the painful cuts in annual spending.

The unequivocal approval of the president should relieve the leader of the minority in the House. Kevin McCarthy and leader of the Senate majority Mitch McConnell. When the agreement between the secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin and speaker Nancy Pelosi Trump said that he was "satisfied" with the agreement. But the lack of a full endorsement worries some republicans, especially a handful of Conservative complaints about the deal.

Trump's approval should allay these concerns before the congressional vote on the bill – assuming the president does not change his mind, which is still possible.

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Washington still treats everything we've heard special advocate Robert Mueller yesterday in his hearings before two panels of the House. But one (very important) person seems to have already reached a conclusion: Nancy Pelosi.

The chairman of the judicial commission rejected by the President of the House Jerry NadlerLaunch instances Accused proceedings against Donald Trump at a closed meeting yesterday after the appearance of Mueller. Pelosi called for Nadler's idea to start writing indictment articles prematurely, insisting that the "slow and methodical" approach was the way forward.

It is certain that Pelosi will be questioned about his position on impeachment during a meeting with the media later in the day. Here are some other points on which the blog keeps an eye:

• Jeffrey Epstein was found unconscious in his prison cell in Manhattan with neck wounds, reports the New York Post. The wealthy financier has been denied bail last week and is awaiting trial in New York on charges of sex trafficking.
• Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation effective August 2, reports our colleague Oliver Laughland. Rosselló faced nearly two weeks of protests against misogynistic and homophobic comments that he held in text messages that were leaked.
• American rapper A $ AP Rocky was charged with assault in Sweden. The artist has been in custody for more than three weeks following a fight in Stockholm last month and Trump announced he would contact the Swedish authorities to discuss the issue of the release of Rocky.
• The Judiciary Committee of the House will hold a hearing at 10:00 am Eastern Time. separations of migrant families and conditions in detention centers for migrants.

The blog covers all of this and more today. Stay tuned.