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President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his first major address since taking office with his second administration.
The speech is not considered a state of the union address, which the last seven presidents have only customarily given after at least a year in office, according to the Congressional Research Service. It’s typically an opportunity to review the presidential agenda.
When is Trump’s joint address to Congress?
Trump will deliver his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, March 4 in Washington, D.C.
What time is Trump’s address to Congress?
Multiple reports indicate the speech itself is expected to begin around 9 p.m. ET, but special coverage on broadcast networks will likely begin earlier.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin will deliver Democrats’ response to Trump’s joint address
Freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., will deliver Democrats’ response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday.
The opposing party typically selects an up-and-coming politician to rebut high-profile presidential speeches before Congress. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., announced the decision Thursday, with Schumer saying in a statement that Slotkin was “nothing short of a rising star in our party.
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Judge rules head of watchdog agency must keep his job, says his firing was unlawful
The head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday, saying President Donald Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president’s authority to oust the head of the independent agency that’s likely headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court.
ACLU and other advocates sue to block migrants from being sent to Guantánamo Bay
A coalition of immigrant rights and legal aid organizations has sued the Trump administration to try to stop the transfer of migrants from the United States to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Saturday’s lawsuit does not challenge the U.S. government’s authority to detain migrants on U.S. soil, or to deport them directly to their home country or another country allowed under immigration law. Instead, the American Civil Liberties Union and its partner civil rights groups — the Center for Constitutional Rights, International Refugee Assistance Project, and ACLU of the District of Columbia — argue that it is illegal for the U.S. to first send those migrants to Guantánamo.
The suit maintains that there is no legitimate reason to do that because the government has ample detention capacity inside the United States, and because holding migrants in the U.S. is more financially and operationally practical.
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South Carolina prepares for first firing squad execution, ushering return of rare method
Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.
The overhaul of South Carolina’s death chamber was completed three years ago. Now, a team of sharpshooters is practicing its aim for what is poised to be the first firing squad execution in the state’s history on Friday.
Death by firing squad remains an extremely uncommon form of capital punishment in the United States, with only three carried out since the death penalty was ruled constitutional in 1976. All three occurred in Utah — the last in 2010, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
