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Biden’s official announcement — PolitiTweet.org

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Expect to see Ketanji Brown Jackson on Hill next week making courtesy visits to senators, starting with leadership and members of Senate Judiciary. Durbin told me previously he expected hearings in about three weeks from the selection. Dems want her confirmed by April 11 recess — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jaketapper: From CNN’s @Arianedevogue: High school senior Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I want to go into law and eventually have a judici… — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham voted to confirm Jackson to the DC Circuit just last year, but his reaction here makes clear he's not yet on board with her pick to SCOTUS. He had lobbied the WH to pick district court judge Michelle Childs for the spot. Graham backed Obama's two SCOTUS nominees. — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham, Murkowski and Collins were the three GOP senators who voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson when she was nominated to the DC Circuit last year. Here’s the roll-call vote: https://t.co/7ODhdCIXgg — PolitiTweet.org

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Ketanji Brown Jackson to be nominated as first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court | CNN Politics https://t.co/q29qaxN1pq — PolitiTweet.org

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Supreme Court pick is expected today — and Biden expected to offer the job to the nominee in a call this morning, @jeffzeleny and @JohnJHarwood report — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StuartKLau: Xi spoke to Putin. Asked him to negotiate. No clear endorsement of war. "China’s position would be based on the right and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnBerman: JUST NOW: "We shall deal with Putin like a man who haslost reason. He's just simply mad. He's just simply crazy. He's just… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @siobhan_ogrady: Devastating scene at an apartment block in eastern Kyiv this morning. Elderly Ukrainians are tossing the remnants of th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KatieBoLillis: A grim moment for Kyiv: Sources familiar with the intelligence tell @jimsciutto and me that the initial US assessment fr… — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden has made his SCOTUS choice, ⁦@jeffzeleny⁩ reports. Announcement could come Friday https://t.co/jy7g8I5Akf — PolitiTweet.org

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After a call with admin briefers, one senator told me that “there was broad bipartisan agreement” for emergency funding legislation to help shore up NATO allies in the Eastern flank and to assist with refugees and humanitarian needs. Senator estimates package could cost $10B — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZcohenCNN: New: Biden officials told lawmakers tonight that Kyiv is under attack from north, south & east, but said it was too early to… — PolitiTweet.org

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Kamala Harris scraps trip to Louisiana tomorrow, WH says. This comes as Biden’s announcement of a Supreme Court pick could happen anytime between now and Monday. No details were given by the WH on why the trip was postponed — PolitiTweet.org

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended not cutting Russia off from SWIFT, arguing that if was even better to directly target the big Russian banks — though she added that "all actions remain at Treasury's disposal,” per source — PolitiTweet.org

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Blinken told lawmakers he thinks this will be a "bloody mess" for Russia but said it “will take a long time to play out,” per source. He told members how long this goes “is mostly dependent” on Ukrainians. “Will they allow themselves to be subjected to a puppet government?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, a leading conservative Republican and veteran of the Senate, is expected to announce in the coming days that he will cut short his six-year term and retire near the end of 2022, per source. (Confirming ⁦@jmartNYT⁩) https://t.co/RMixmv3djN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MZanona: NEWS: Republicans call for stronger Russia sanctions, but some key voices are being purposely careful in their criticism of Bi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: In a video statement, Ukrainian President Zelensky says the enemy has marked him as the number one target. "They want t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @burgessev: After Cruz, Sen. Hawley comes on at CPAC and defends objecting to the 2020 election certification on Jan. 6, 2021. "I'm no… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNN: "A very dramatic outburst." CNN's @mchancecnn describes the intense firefight he witnessed at an airport outside Ukraine's capita… — PolitiTweet.org

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Bob Menendez wants more sanctions, including “sanctioning the Russian Central Bank, removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system, crippling Russia’s key industries, sanctioning Putin personally, and taking all steps to deprive Putin and his inner circle of their assets” — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden briefed the top four Hill leaders — Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer and McConnell — on Ukraine this afternoon in “a classified discusssion,” McConnell said. Rest of the House and Senate getting unclassified briefings over the phone tonight with lawmakers back home over recess — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: The Treasury Department announces sanctions against 24 Belarusian individuals and entities, including the defense minis… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aletweetsnews: Protests are erupting in several Russian cities tonight against Putin's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, along with atte… — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden later said: “If he did move into NATO countries, we will be involved.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jimsciutto: Notable: Biden would deliberately *not* comment on whether he is consulting with China on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden on the impact of stiff sanctions on Putin: "It will so weaken his country that he'll have to make a very, very difficult choice of whether to continue to move toward being a second-rate power or, in fact, respond." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jmhansler: Biden says removing Russia from SWIFT is "not the position that the rest of Europe wishes to take." Ukraine had called on R… — PolitiTweet.org