Kyle Griffin

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Reuters: A judge ruled that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis knowingly violated the rights of same-sex couples by denying them marriage licenses in 2015, clearing the way for a jury trial seeking damages against her. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ukrainian forces have surrounded several strategic areas on the northwest outskirts of Kyiv, according to the Bucha city council. — PolitiTweet.org

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Republican Thom Tillis: Do I read that statement [correctly]? Judge Jackson: "No, senator, you don't read it correctly."   Later, from Judge Jackson: "Senator, if you read two more sentences down, that is precisely what I focus on." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Zelensky to Italy: Do not be a holiday resort for those promoting the war. "Do not be a resort for them. Block their properties, seize their accounts, their yachts from Scheherazade to the smallest one." — PolitiTweet.org

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Republican Utah governor vetoes transgender sports ban after Indiana vetoed similar measure in wave of trans youth bills. — PolitiTweet.org

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Moderna says its lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine works in babies and young children. — PolitiTweet.org

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Senior U.S. defense official: The Pentagon assesses that Russia's combat power is dropping. "We've assessed, for the first time, that the Russians may be slightly below a 90% level of assessed available combat power." @NBCNews — PolitiTweet.org

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The U.S. has seen indications that some Russian soldiers have gotten frostbite in Ukraine because they lack the appropriate cold-weather gear, according to a senior U.S. defense official. — PolitiTweet.org

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NBC News: During his trip to Europe this week, President Biden could announce that the U.S. plans to permanently maintain an increased number of U.S. troops deployed in NATO countries near Ukraine, according to four people familiar with the discussions. @NBCNews — PolitiTweet.org

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The U.S. has "clear evidence" that Russian forces have “deliberately and intentionally targeted civilian infrastructure, hospitals, places of shelter,” a senior U.S. defense official said. The U.S. has seen "indications of behavior ... that would likewise constitute war crimes." — PolitiTweet.org

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Breaking NBC: The Biden admin is preparing to unveil as early as this week a plan to expedite and streamline the resettlement of some Ukrainian refugees in the United States. https://t.co/uiYlFTRzLi — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Mazie Hirono asks Judge Jackson whether she has been accused of sexual assault or harassment. Judge Jackson confirms she has not. — PolitiTweet.org

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KBJ responds to Cruz: "Your chart does not include all the factors that Congress has told judges to consider." "I take these cases very seriously as a mother, as someone who, as a judge, has to review the actual evidence." "I did my duty to hold the defendants' accountable." — PolitiTweet.org

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KJB responds to Cruz: "Your chart does not include all the factors that Congress has told judges to consider." "I take these cases very seriously as a mother, as someone who, as a judge, has to review the actual evidence." "I did my duty to hold the defendants' accountable." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ted Cruz repeatedly interrupts Judge Jackson. — PolitiTweet.org

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Judge Jackson responds to Ted Cruz's questions about books on reading lists at a private school: "I have not reviewed any of those books, any of those ideas." "They don't come up in my work as a judge, which I am, respectfully, here to address." — PolitiTweet.org

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Chairman Durbin notes to Judge Jackson: "Earlier, Sen. Cornyn said that you had called former President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld a 'war criminal' ...There was no time where you called President Bush or Secretary Rumsfeld a 'war criminal'." — PolitiTweet.org

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A judge has convicted New Mexico county official Couy Griffin of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Griffin, a Republican who helped found a group called Cowboys for Trump, is scheduled to be sentenced in June. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Zelenskyy says Russian forces shelled along a humanitarian corridor Monday, wounding four children who were among the civilians being evacuated. — PolitiTweet.org

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Republican John Cornyn complains that the Court's Obergefell decision conflicts with the sincere beliefs of some religious people. Judge Jackson: "That is the nature of a right." — PolitiTweet.org

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Judge Jackson: "Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning the right to terminate a woman's pregnancy. They have established a framework that the court has reaffirmed." — PolitiTweet.org

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AP: Ukrainian forces retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday. Ukraine's Defense Ministry announced that troops were able to retake Makariv, northwest of Kyiv. — PolitiTweet.org

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana governor vetoes banning trans females from girls school sports, signs bill ending state’s gun permit requirement. — PolitiTweet.org

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A Ukrainian girl who gained worldwide attention for singing "Let it Go" while in hiding from Russian attacks sung her country's national anthem in Poland. The girl, 7-year-old Amellia Anisovych, sang the Ukrainian national anthem Sunday night at a charity concert in Poland. — PolitiTweet.org

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Judge Jackson on defending Guantanamo Bay detainees: "Federal public defenders don't get to pick their clients." "You are standing up for the constitutional value of representation." — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's the entire answer: Judge Jackson responds to accusations about light sentences in child porn cases. https://t.co/oh2XweRc8x — PolitiTweet.org

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Judge Jackson, responding to Republican Josh Hawley's accusations that she's soft on child porn cases: "As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth." — PolitiTweet.org

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Chairman Durbin notes that there's just one living member of the Senate who has changed the size of the Supreme Court: Mitch McConnell, when he kept a seat vacant for a year in 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is accusing Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine: "What's happening in Mariupol is a massive war crime. Destroying everything, bombarding and killing everybody in an indiscriminate manner. This is something awful." — PolitiTweet.org

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(AP) BERLIN — Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says Boris Romanchenko, who survived camps at Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, was killed Friday when his home in Kharkiv was attacked. — PolitiTweet.org