Though Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort against the House speaker is likely to fail, she plans to use the vote to show that Mike Johnson relies on Democrats to keep his job

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Juan Merchan , the judge in Trump’s hush money criminal trial, has again held the former president in contempt of court, fining him another $1,000 for violating the terms of his gag order and threatening him with the possibility of jail time for future violations.

“ As much as I do not want to impose a jail sanction ... I want you to understand that I will, if necessary, and appropriate ,” Merchan warned Trump.

Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, warned that comments by Kari Lake, a Trump acolyte running for the state’s other Senate seat, could incite violence. Last month Lake told voters to “ strap on a Glock ” ahead of the 2024 elections. “It’s dangerous,” he told NBC News during an interview on “Meet the Press.” “What Kari Lake said could result in people getting hurt or killed.”

In an interview on CBS, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem would not say whether she met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un even though it appears she fabricated the encounter in her book. “I’m not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders. … This anecdote shouldn’t have been in the book and as soon as it was brought to my attention I made sure that was adjusted.”

Noem also doubled down on her decision to kill her 14-month old dog Cricket, despite widespread blowback. “The reason that this story is in the book — because people need to understand who I am and some of those difficult decisions,” she told CBS.

California congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat who has been visiting colleges around the country during student protests, said the president should join him.

“I think the president should and will get out there on campuses,” he told CBS, adding: “This is a defining moment for this generation, similar to anti-Vietnam protests, anti-apartheid protests, anti-Iraq war protests and they’re telling us that over 30,000 people have died. It’s time for this war to end.”

Far-right Republican congresswoman says she is ‘absolutely’ calling vote on motion next week and thinks vulnerable Democrats could be hurt by supporting Mike Johnson

A reporter asked Greene why she wanted to wait until next week to vote on the motion to vacate.

“ Everybody needs the weekend to prepare,” Greene replied. “I’m not irresponsible. I care about my conference. I have been measured, I have given this time. I have given warning after warning after warning. And that’s why we don’t have to rush. We can do it next week.”

I’m actually not going to concede that the vote will fail.

Now, you may say … congressman Massie, Hakeem Jeffries just told you, he’s gonna save Mike Johnson’s bacon. So why go through with it? It’s a futile exercise … Why would you go through with this? Look, we didn’t get elected to make excuses. We didn’t get elected to say we shouldn’t even try. We got elected to come here and give it our best and also to impose transparency. What we’ve seen here is the coming out of the uniparty, and it will be consolidated and it will be transparent and apparent next week to all Americans when this vote happens. Too many of our colleagues have thrown up their hands in frustration and apathy. ‘Oh, we shouldn’t even try. Let’s just coast this one out’. I tell you what, it’s too dangerous to coast this one out. We cannot coast this one out. Hakeem Jeffries knows if we coast this one out, we lose the majority.

Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries says far-right Georgia congresswoman’s motion to oust Mike Johnson ‘will not succeed’

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Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives vowed that the Georgia extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene “will not succeed” if she triggers an attempt to remove the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, from his role.

In response, Greene promised to press on in her quest to show Johnson the door.

House speaker to announce ‘crackdown on the virus of antisemitism’ he claims is spreading on college campuses amid pro-Palestinian protests

• Pro-Palestinian protesters take over Columbia University building

Republican House speaker Mike Johnson continues to direct his ire at the students and leadership of Columbia University, accusing them of antisemitism for their protests against Israel’s invasion of Gaza:

The protesters at Columbia say they’re outraged by Israel’s invasion of Gaza, and are sparring with university administrators, including president Minouche Shafik . Columbia’s leaders yesterday began suspending students who remained at a protest encampment after an afternoon deadline to disperse, and hours later, dozens of protesters took over a university building on Columbia’s Manhattan campus.

Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries sends letter to speaker Mike Johnson requesting consideration of a bipartisan bill to counter antisemitism

Last week, Joe Biden vowed to take another stab at convincing Congress to pass legislation that would allow him to tighten immigration policy and deter new migrants from entering the United States.

But Politico reports that nothing significant appears to be in the works – a consequences of the opposition from Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress that would likely kill any compromise reached on the highly divisive issue:

Talks around resuscitating the bipartisan border compromise that senators struck in February have been nonexistent in Washington. And despite the president’s proclamation, administration officials and immigration policy experts both say it’s highly unlikely any legislative momentum for border security materializes between now and November.

“They pulled a rabbit out of a hat on Ukraine, but there’s no chance they’re getting anything out of Mike Johnson’s House on border security,” said an immigration advocate familiar with the White House’s thinking, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations with administration officials. “They’ve known that since December, when they realized they had to count votes in the House. There’s no chance of legislation on this, and they know that. It’s rhetorical posturing.”

In the short term, the two leaders ordered their national security teams to work together to immediately implement concrete measures to significantly reduce irregular border crossings while protecting human rights. President Biden and President López Obrador also pledged to advance initiatives to address the root causes of migration throughout the Western Hemisphere, noting that increasing shared prosperity and security will be of critical importance in effectively addressing the migration challenge over the longer term.

Anyone who thinks far-right congresswoman will drop plan to remove Mike Johnson is ‘simply out of their mind’, aide says

Anyone who thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene will drop her threat to force the removal of the Republican US House speaker, Mike Johnson, is “high, drunk, or simply out of their mind”, a senior aide to the far-right Georgia congresswoman said.

“That’s absurd,” her deputy chief of staff Nick Dyer told Politico , adding that Greene was “not going to tell the press” her plans for activating the motion to vacate she filed more than a month ago.

At least 34 arrested at University of Texas in Austin and 50 more detained at University of Southern California while House speaker jeered at Columbia University

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Dozens of protesters were arrested on Wednesday while participating in pro-Palestine demonstrations across US college campuses.

At least 34 protesters, including a member of the media from a local news station, were arrested during protests at University of Texas in Austin and at least 50 more were detained by police at University of Southern California (USC).

Coalition of lawmakers helped legislation clear procedural hurdle to reach final votes, following opposition from rightwing Republicans

The US House pushed ahead on Friday with a $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support after Democrats came to the rescue of Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker.

A coalition of lawmakers helped the legislation clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend, as Friday morning’s vote followed a rare move late on Thursday for a House committee that normally votes along party lines.

House Republicans accuse homeland security secretary of failing to enforce border laws, but Schumer calls charges ‘beneath dignity of the Senate’

Senate Democrats on Wednesday dismissed the articles of impeachment brought by House Republicans against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on grounds that the charges failed to meet the bar of “high crimes and misdemeanors” outlined in the constitution as a basis for removing an official from office.

In a pair of party-line votes, Democrats held that the articles alleging Mayorkas willfully refused to enforce border laws and breached the public trust with his statements to Congress about the high levels of migration at the US southern border with Mexico were unconstitutional. On the first article, the Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, voted “present”.