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Cory Booker attacks Biden for 'civil' relationship with segregationist lawmakers – as it happened

Summary

Closing out live coverage this evening, with an updated summary of today’s news from Amanda Holpuch and me:

Video highlights from today's US House debate on slavery reparations bill

Watch some of the key moments from today’s Congressional debate over reparations:

After facing criticism from his Democratic rivals all day, Joe Biden is pushing back on calls that he should apologize for his comments about his record of “civility” with segregationist members of Congress.

Asked about calls for him to apologize for his remarks, Biden said: “Apologize for what?”

“Cory should apologize,” he added. “He knows better. There’s not a racist bone in my body. I’ve been involved in Civil Rights my whole career. Period.”

Biden told reporters he had been describing what it took for him to pass legislation, including extensions of the Voting Rights Act, despite opposition from segregationists.

“The point I’m making is: You don’t have to agree. You don’t have to like the people in terms of their views,” Biden told reporters. “But you just simply make the case, and you beat them. You beat them, without changing the system.”

Matthew Kacsmaryk signed onto a letter that labeled being transgender a “delusion,” and has opposed protections for LGBTQ people in housing, healthcare, and the Violence Against Women Act.

Today, he was confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.

Whatever happens in 2020, Trump and the Republican Party have used his first term years to remake the federal judiciary at every level. As context, the Huffington Post reported today, 1 in 5 of all of the nation’s current circuit judges was nominated by Trump.

More on Kacsmaryk from the Huffington Post.

Over the past two months, the New Yorker and The Trace, a nonprofit that reports on gun violence in America, have produced a series of investigations about greed and self-dealing inside the National Rifle Association.

The latest reporting: before he became the NRA’s longtime former chief financial officer, Woody Phillips, now retired, had “had embezzled at least $1 million” from a former employer, according to several of his former colleagues. The NRA said it had “no knowledge” of the issue; Phillips did not respond to requests for comment.

Read more at The Trace.

A New Jersey Congressman has called on the State Department to reassess its travel advisory for the Dominican Republic after nine Americans tourists have died there, the last one just this week. More than two million American tourists visit the Dominican Republic each year, the New York Times reported, but the string of deaths has raised concerns and is under investigation.

Lois Beckett here in the Oakland bureau, taking over today’s live coverage of politics in the United States, where the past is never dead, it’s not even past.

“Disingenuous.” That’s what a senior adviser to Joe Biden is calling the criticism of his remarks about his productive and “civil” working relationship with a segregationist member of Congress.

In a thread of tweets, Sanders noted that Biden was “the man who served as President Obama’s VP, [and] the man who literally launched his 2020 campaign calling out Nazis in Charlottesville.”

Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders, another 2020 contender, also called on Biden to apologize for his remarks.

Summary

Updated

A global perspective on today’s historic debate in the US congress on slavery and reparations has just been given by Sir Hilary Beckles, who is the chairman of the reparations commission for Caricom, the union of Caribbean countries.

Speaking at a post-congressional event organised by the ACLU at the Metropolitan AME church in Washington, Beckles said that the reparations movement was starting to bear fruit around the world. Commissions like his own in Caricom have formed and opened negotiations in Columbia, Costa Rica and Venezuela as well as the European Union and several West African countries from where slaves originally came.

Beckles said that reparations was about making amends for nothing less than genocide. In his native Barbados, 600,000 slaves were imported to work in the sugar plantations but at the point of emancipation only 84,000 people of African descent remained. “What else can you call that other than genocide?”

The historian said that the 21st century would be the century of reparations. “It took us 300 years to fight to end slavery. It took us a further 100 years to get civil rights written into law. It may take us all of the 21st century to do this, but we will not stop because slavery is not done until reparations are paid.”

“Lawmakers and their witnesses ranged over the legacy of slavery, the Jim Crow segregation that followed and modern scourges of mass incarceration, inequality and poverty that still plague African Americans,” writes the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington, who attended a Congressional hearing on reparations in Washington DC today.

Ed’s full report is here:

Federal authorities are investigating whether Deutsche Bank complied with laws meant to stop money laundering and other crimes, according to the New York Times:

The investigation includes a review of Deutsche Bank’s handling of so-called suspicious activity reports that its employees prepared about possibly problematic transactions, including some linked to President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, according people close to the bank and others familiar with the matter.

The criminal investigation into Deutsche Bank is one element of several separate but overlapping government examinations into how illicit funds flow through the American financial system, said five of the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the inquiries. Several other banks are also being investigated.

Congress is also investigating Deutsche Bank because of its close relationship with Donald Trump and his family.

“Deutsche Bank has said that it is cooperating with government investigations and that it had been taking steps to improve its anti-money-laundering systems,” the Times said.

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is under fire for recalling his “civil” working relationship with two segregationist and racist lawmakers: James Eastand, a Senator from Mississippi and Herman Talmadge, a Senator from Georgia.

“I was in a caucus with James O Eastland,” Biden said at a fundraiser in New York on Tuesday. “He never called me ‘boy’; he always called me ‘son.’ “

Biden’s competitors criticized the comments: New Jersey senator Cory Booker, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and California senator Kamala Harris.

“You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys,’” Booker said in a statement Wednesday. “Vice President Biden’s relationships with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make America a safer and more inclusive place for black people, and for everyone. I have to tell Vice President Biden, as someone I respect, that he is wrong for using his relationships with Eastland and Talmadge as examples of how to bring our country together.”

Updated

Lawmakers have criticized the Trump adminstration’s plans to roll back the US government’s only direct efforts to curb coal-fired power plant pollution as “disgraceful” and a “major setback.”

California attorney general, Xavier Becerra:

President Trump’s Dirty Power Plan is more than just disgraceful and immoral, it is unlawful. There is no justification for gutting a law that would have significantly reduced emissions and prevented thousands of premature deaths per year. While the Trump Administration might lack the necessary courage, we’re prepared to confront the climate crisis head-on.

The independent US senator from Maine, Angus King:

There is a seemingly very boring, but very important, hearing tomorrow about the state of the Congressional Research Service, a public policy branch in the government that creates non-partisan reports for Congress.

CRS has a positive reputation, but for the first time in more than a decade, the House will hold an oversight hearing to examine issues within the agency.

According to Roll Call:

Andie Wyatt worked at CRS from 2015 to 2018 as a legislative attorney in the American Law Division, with a focus on environmental law. She said there was a culture of management avoiding pushback at all costs without any accounting for whether the pushback was accurate.

“From the perspective of an attorney working on climate matters in 2017 and 2018, there was a lot of pressure not to imply too directly that the Trump administration, and Republican position against climate science, was wrong,” Wyatt said. She added that clear statements about climate risks and science were “watered down” either in the editing process or preemptively by authors who anticipated their language would be diluted...

... Stephen Dagadakis, a CRS spokesman, said in a statement that “CRS is committed to providing Congress with research and analysis of the highest quality. We address the full range of issues before Congress, including topics that are controversial, and believe the work stands for itself.”

The author and professor of history and international relations at American University, Ibram X Kendi, writes for the Atlantic on the Americans who oppose reparations:

Americans who prefer gradual approaches that do not radically disrupt inequality and who label their approaches “plain, peaceful, generous, just,” to use Lincoln’s words, carelessly ignore or understate the complex, violent, stingy, and unjust damage wrought by inequality. These Americans care more about responding to political expediency than the emergency of inequality, care more about repairing alienated white Americans than repairing pillaged black coffers, and claim to be horrified by slavery and “not racist” but end up, knowingly or unknowingly, compensating the white beneficiaries of slavery and racism.

These Americans claim they oppose racism and reparations. They support the drive for economic equality between the races at the same time they are pumping the breaks on the only foreseeable policy that can dramatically close the growing racial wealth gap between the races. Only an expansive and expensive compensation policy for the descendants of the enslaved and relegated of the scale Lincoln proposed for the enslavers and subsidized could prevent the racial wealth gap from compounding and being passed onto another generation.

The New York Times put the same 18 questions to 21 Democratic presidential hopefuls, including “Does anyone deserve to have a billion dollars?” “Would there be American troops in Afghanistan at the end of your first term?” and “What is your comfort food on the campaign trail?”

On the billionaire question, Kirsten Gillibrand was the only person to definitively say “no.”

The Afghanistan questioned saw all candidates say they would pull back troops, with only Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker vowing a full exit.

Turns out a few candidates are vegan (Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard) and Bernie Sanders put on some weight the last time he was on the campaign trail so he says: “there’s too much comfort food.”

Rally recap

The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, was in Orlando last night for Donald Trump’s rally to formally launch his 2020 presidential re-election bid.

Smith writes:

Trump spent little effort offering a vision of the future. He and his supporters were most energised by his greatest hits: grievance politics, demonising opponents, raging against perceived injustices. There was even a reprise of attacks on Hillary Clinton, his defeated rival in 2016, complete with furious chants of “Lock her up!”

His vicious, often fabricated, attacks implied that while a referendum on his record would likely end in defeat, his campaign believes that whipping up fear of a Democrat in the White House could yet save his skin.

Outside the rally, Richard Luscombe kept watch on the supporters and protestors, who came out in droves:

A happy crowd danced and sang to live music in the rain, but the carnival atmosphere was marred by the appearance of several dozen of apparent members of the Proud Boys, a far-right organization deemed by the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a hate group.

Marching from the Amway Center chanting, many wearing Maga hats and some making white power gestures, the group was intercepted by City of Orlando police officers outside the bar. The officers spread their bicycles across the road as a barricade.

And Adam Gabbatt, reporting from Orlando, has got the top takeaways from the rally, including “Trump has no plans to turn forward the clock” and “A big crowd in Orlando … but early departures.”

The judiciary sub-committee hearing in Washington on reparations has just wrapped up. It’s been a lively debate - at times heated - with the full hearing room echoing occasionally with cheers for those advocating for making amends for slavery and at other times loud booing when Republican lawmakers and their witnesses dismissed the idea.

The final word came from the Democratic sponsor of HR 40, the House bill calling for a government study of reparations, and her key witness.

Sheila Jackson Lee, representative from Texas who has sponsored HR 40 since 2017, said that the debate around reparations was real and very much rooted in the present day. “We are not here on a temporary pass doing temporary work,” she said.

An activist stands in a line waiting to enter a hearing about reparation for the descendants of slaves, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
An activist stands in a line waiting to enter a hearing about reparation for the descendants of slaves, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

The job was to correct the errors of the past and enshrine that correction into law.
Her key witness, the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, said that the common theme through all this morning’s discussion was theft. Slavery was theft of black labor, Jim Crow segregation was theft of black property, and today “if you deny my ability to vote and participate in the political process you have effectively stolen from me”.

None of this was a passive process, he said as the debate closed. “It was a conscious taking from one group to give to another by the state.”

In the wake of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ appearance at the reparations hearing, it’s worth looking back at his interview with The New Yorker about reparations published earlier this month.

Several Democratic presidential candidates have issued support for reparations, and Cory Booker was at the hearing, but Coates said in the interview that Elizabeth Warren was the candidate he thought was most serious when they talk about reparations.

An excerpt from that interview:

The New Yorker: In what way?

Coates: I think she means it. I mean—I guess it will break a little news—after “The Case for Reparations” came out, she just asked me to come and talk one on one with her about it.

TNY: This is five years ago, when your piece came out in The Atlantic?

C: Yeah, maybe it was a little later than that, but it was about the time. It was well before she declared anything about running for President.

TNY: And what was your conversation with Elizabeth Warren like?

C: She had read it. She was deeply serious, and she had questions. And it wasn’t, like, Will you do X, Y, and Z for me? It wasn’t, like, I’m trying to demonstrate I’m serious. I have not heard from her since, either, by the way.

TNY: Have you talked to any candidates about it?

C: No.

Afternoon summary

Hope Hicks is refusing to answer questions related to her time in the White House in an interview with the House Judiciary Committee, according to Democrats in the closed-door meeting.

“She’s objecting to stuff that’s already in the public record,” California Representative Karen Bass, told the AP. “It’s pretty ridiculous.”

Pramila Jayapal, a representative from Washington, called it “a farce.”

In a letter to Nadler, White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote that Trump directed Hicks not to answer questions “relating to the time of her service as a senior adviser to the president.”

California representative, Ted Lieu, who is tweeting his personal highlights from the interview, is not impressed:

Ta-Nehisi Coates condemns Mitch McConnell over reparations

An inside look at Coates’ testimony from the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington, who is at the reparations hearing:

Before I get into Coates’s criticism, a quick word about where we’re sitting. Coates delivered his address in front of the assembled members of the sub-committee on the constitution, civil rights and civil liberties.

Half the bench of lawmakers consists of Democrats, and their seats are all full. Half the bench consists of Republicans, and their seats are almost entirely empty. Which speaks volumes about how the modern conservative movement views the subject of making amends for slavery.

Yesterday the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell made a statement in which he dismissed in curt terms the very idea of reparations. “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” McConnell said.

That clearly made Coates see red. His address grew angrier and angrier, his disdain for McConnell’s posture more pointed and personal.

The Republican leader may not have been around 150 years ago, but he was around for the aftermath, he said. “For a century after the Civil War black people were subjected to a relentless campaign of terror, a campaign that extended well into the lifetime of majority leader McConnell.”

McConnell may not have been there for the Battle of Appomattox at the end of the Civil War, “but he was alive for the execution of George Stinney, he was alive for the blinding of Isaac Woodard.”

Stinney was aged 14 when he was executed by electric chair in 1944 after a trial for the murder of two white girls that was later overturned as unfair. Woodard was blinded in an attack by South Carolina police in 1946 – he was still in uniform having recently been honorably discharged from the US Army as a World War 2 veteran.

Coates went on to say of McConnell: “He was alive for the red-lining of Chicago and the looting of black homeowners of some $4bn. Victims of their plunder are very much alive today – I’m sure they would love a word with the majority leader.”

Updated

Back to the reparations hearing, where Sheila Jackson Lee, a congresswoman from Texas who is the current sponsor of the House reparations bill HR 40, delivered sober statistics on why she supports reparations.

  • Number of Africans who were transported by force across the Atlantic in the slave trade: 10 to 15m
  • Number of slaves who died during the Middle Passage: 2m
  • For every 100 slaves who reached the New World, another 40 died on route

Then the congresswoman went on to give a set of equally chilling statistics from today:

  • 1m African Americans are incarcerated
  • Black unemployment stands at 6.6%, more than double the national rate
  • 31% of black children live in poverty, also more than twice the national average

“I am not here in anger, I am not seeing to encourage hostilities,” Jackson Lee said. But she added: “The role of the federal government in supporting the institution of slavery is an injustice that must be formally acknowledged and addressed.”

She said that today’s debate was not symbolic. It was the first step towards legislative action that should see her bill, HR 40, move to the floor of the House and the Senate and eventually be signed into law by the US president.

Donald Trump has raised nearly $25m for his re-election in less than 24 hours, according to the Republican National Committee.

He is also planning to use US military planes fly over the mall for the Fourth of July celebrations, according to the Washington Post:

Under the arrangements, Trump would not be on board the presidential Boeing jetliner as it flew overhead, the people familiar with the plans said.

The White House, which declined to comment Tuesday, has provided few details on how it plans to change the long-standing celebration of Independence Day in the nation’s capital. The Washington Post reported in May that the president plans to speak on July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial in an event dubbed “Salute to America,” a move that has shifted the National Park Service’s fireworks launch from the reflecting pool area to West Potomac Park.

Emily Holden, an environment reporter at the Guardian, has the full story on Donald Trump’s administration finalizing its plans to roll back the US government’s only direct efforts to curb coal-fired power plant pollution that is heating the planet:

Joe Goffman, a Harvard professor and former EPA general counsel, called EPA’s legal arguments “tortured” and “deceptive”.

Goffman said the rule “demonstrates the Trump administration’s determination not only to avoid taking action to address climate change but also to obstruct current and future efforts by states and successors to cut greenhouse gas pollution”.

Democratic-led states and environment advocates are expected to challenge the rule in lawsuits. Trump’s agency argues it does not have legal authority to regulate climate change. If the courts agree, future US climate efforts could be in jeopardy.

Coal plant air pollution – from tiny particles that enter the lungs – cause breathing problems and early deaths. According to an earlier estimate from EPA, the new rule could lead to 1,400 more deaths each year.

Coleman Hughes, a columnist at the online magazine Quillette, is now testifying against reparations.

“We’re spending our time debating a bill that mentions slavery only 25 times and incarceration only once,” Hughes says, noting that there are no slaves and more than 2 million black people incarcerated.

Hughes said he was encouraged by nearly everyone else he knew not to testify today, because he would anger both Republicans and Democrats.

“If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further,” Hughes said.

He advocates for reparations to people who lived under Jim Crow, but not for descendants of slaves. “People who are owed for slavery are no longer here,” Hughes said.

At the end of his testimony, he is met with a few boos from the crowd, prompting the committee chair to call on people to be respectful to all those testifying.

At the reparations hearing, Ta-Nehisi Coates begins his testimony by quoting senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky who said Tuesday that he opposes reparations, telling reporters: “I don’t want reparations for something that happened 150 years ago.”

Coates notes that the families of Civil War veterans received payments well after the war and that the US honors treaties that date back 200 years. “Many of us would love to be taxed for the things we are solely and individually responsible for,” Coates says, noting that is not how the American project works.

His testimony is impassioned and directed at McConnell.

He lists the myriad, systemic crimes against black people that have happened in McConnell’s lifetime and notes that people impacted would surely “love a word with the majority leader. “

Trump rolls back only rule that curbs coal-fired power plant pollution

Donald Trump’s administration is taking another big step on Wednesday in rolling back the US government’s only direct efforts to curb coal-fired power plant pollution that is heating the planet.

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency will replace an Obama-era climate change rule with a regulation that academic and health experts warn could help some of the oldest, dirtiest coal plants keep running.

Obama’s rule, the Clean Power Plan, would have pushed power companies to shift away from coal and toward natural gas and renewable power. Trump’s rule lays out ways states could direct coal plants to increase their efficiency, with hardware fixes or operational changes.

Trump’s rule will not significantly address the heat-trapping gases entering the atmosphere and causing more extreme heat waves, floods and other disasters. And it will lead to higher levels of air pollution, compared with the Clean Power Plan.

But the Trump administration is defending the change, arguing it is limited by law in how it can regulate the emissions that cause rising temperatures.

The Guardian’s chief reporter, Ed Pilkington, is at the Congressional hearing on reparations, which takes place on Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the US.

I’m in a House judiciary committee room in the Rayburn building in Washington and already the setting is buzzing. The corridor is jam packed with people, overwhelmingly African American, hoping to grab one of the public seats for the first congressional hearing to be held in 12 years on what has become this year’s hot topic – reparations for slavery.

The exceptional turnout for the event which has just started is a sign of passions running high ahead of the 2020 presidential elections in which many of the 23 Democratic candidates have embraced the idea of atoning for America’s original sin.

A couple of the presidential candidates are likely to speak too: Cory Booker, the US senator from New Jersey, who has introduced a senate bill calling for the creation of a government commission, is at the hearing, as is Eric Swalwell, a California congressman who is a member of the sub-committee that has called the hearing.

I’ve just been speaking to people standing in line in the packed corridor, asking them what they are hoping to hear today. Kenniss Henry, a member of one of the oldest pro-reparations groups, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, said she was hoping that the hearing would give enough of a push in Congress that the reparations bill, HR 40, would finally get a full debate on the floors of both the House and Senate – something that has proved elusive for the past 30 years.

The most touching comment came from Khalab Blagburn, aged 13. He recently spoke at a debate at his local high school in which he argued all black people in America today and not just the descendants of slaves should be compensated, because the fall-out of slavery had impacted them all.

I asked him whether, as a teenager, he was confident he would have a fair chance of realizing his dreams in America when he grows up. He replied:

If I work hard and continue to pursue my passions I think I can be successful. But I know I face greater obstacles in the road in front of me than my white school friends.

That, in a nutshell, is what today’s historic hearing is all about.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not censure Donald Trump, a move that is a step down from launching impeachment proceedings.

Some Democrats floated censure as an alternative to impeachment because of Pelosi’s firm stance against holding such proceedings.

“No. I think censure is just a way out,” Pelosi told reporters at a breakfast briefing. “If you’re gonna go, you gotta to go. In other words, if the goods are there, you must impeach, and censure is nice, but it is not commensurate with the violations of the Constitution should we decide that’s the way to go.”

She said she doesn’t feel pressure from Democratic House members “to do anything.”

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, should be investigated over the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi because there is “credible evidence” that he and other senior officials are liable for the killing, according to a UN report published this morning.

The 100-page analysis concludes Saudia Arabia is responsible under international human rights law for the extrajudicial killing of Khashoggi at the Istanbul consulate in October 2018.

Agnes Callamard, the UN’s special rapporteur, asked the US to make a determination under the US law on the responsibility of the crown prince for Khashoggi’s death.

This is complicated for the US because Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has close ties with the crown prince.

Hope Hicks, former White House communications director, is the first witness in the House investigation into the Mueller report’s findings on whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct a probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Hicks is named 184 times in the Mueller report.

She arrived at the closed-door hearing about 20 minutes ago and reporters said she ignored questions from reporters.

Good morning and welcome

For the first time in a decade, Congress today is holding a hearing on reparations, the idea of providing financial compensation to descendants of the enslaved.

Among those testifying today is writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose seminal piece for the Atlantic, The Case for Reparations, re-invigorated the push for reparations alongside the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Congress will also hold a closed-door hearing with Hope Hicks, the former White House official and Trump campaign official, to discuss Russian interference in the 2016 election. House Judiciary committee chairman Jerry Nadler said a transcript of the meeting will be made public.

Speaking of the Trump campaign, the president held a rally last night to mark the official launch of his re-election bid. The Florida rally contained the president’s usual mix of falsehoods and anger - we’ll have reactions to that later this morning and a recap is here.

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