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Seung Min Kim
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Seung Min Kim
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White House reporter for @AP. @CNN analyst, proud @washingtonpost@politico alum. Email: [email protected]. Also over on Bluesky at seungminkim1.
- Flag burning is a constitutionally protected act under the First Amendment, per 1989 Supreme Court ruling"You burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump says in Oval as he signs EOs. "And it goes on your record."Readers added contextFlag burning is protected by first amendment freedom of speech. An EO doesn’t override that. uscourts.gov/about-federal-…
- Kamala Harris is also the first Asian-American vice presidential nominee in history — which a lot of news organizations seem to be forgetting.
- His final public appearance, visiting the newly-named Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. RIP to @repjohnlewis.
- Before joining the press briefing, BTS is filming content with the White House digital team and getting a tour, per a WH official. #bts
- Wow -- Duckworth says she will block Senate approvals of **1,123** senior U.S. Armed Forces promotions until Esper "confirms in writing that he did not, or will not, block the expected and deserved promotion of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to Colonel."
- Senate Majority Leader Joe Manchin announces that he'll vote to confirm Deb Haaland for Interior secretary
- Per sources, Biden is telling Senate Democrats on their virtual lunch how he told Republican senators yesterday that their package was too small.
- Today is Joe and Jill Biden’s 46th wedding anniversary. He proposed to her five times before she said “yes” marthastewart.com/7858580/joe-bi…
- For the gazillionth time, Trump did NOT win the women's vote in 2016. He won the white women's vote.
- Can someone help me do a clip search and find whether Antonin Scalia was asked whether he could be a proper father to nine children when he was nominated to the Supreme Court
- On CNN, Pelosi is now calling it the “Trump virus”
- Obama and Biden did not leave behind all those judicial vacancies, despite what Trump says. McConnell did.
