Trump argued against taking down statues of slaveholders and of military leaders who fought to break up the United States in order to preserve slavery, on the grounds that those statues are important for teaching U.S. history.
The Justice in Policing Act gets a vote; Klobuchar will not be vice president; and all about proxy voting.
The bill was supported by Democrats but received little support from Republicans, whose own police-reform effort was blocked in the Senate the day prior.
Eric Black Ink
The polling shows Joe Biden with very large leads in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, the three states that Trump carried in 2016 that enabled his Electoral College victory.
National
In May, the U.S. House started using proxy voting, which allows a member to designate another member to cast their vote for them on the floor of the chamber.
Eric Black Ink
It’s only June. But you wouldn’t want to be Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale when he has to explain the situation to the boss.
Eric Black Ink
Emmer suggested that anyone who supported Nancy Pelosi is under suspicion.
National
“Every time I get up, I know exactly when my expiration date expires and that is every two years for my DACA status,” said Edwin Torres, the former Latinx outreach director for Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s presidential campaign and a beneficiary of the DACA program.
Eric Black Ink
Will Trump’s absurdly long West Point tales about the ramp walk and water drinking really energize anyone?
D.C. Memo
This week from Washington, the Supreme Court decides the fate of the DACA’s program, Mayor Melvin Carter testifies in D.C., and Congress prepares to vote on national policing legislation.
Eric Black Ink
Check out this 538 analysis: In each of the last three presidential elections, the Cook Political Report’s list of swing states in June turned out to contain more states that didn’t end up being close in the end than states that were.
Eric Black Ink
There is no such law. There is no such rule. There is not even such a “norm,” outside of Trump’s imagination.
Eric Black Ink
It’s a small leap, or none at all, to argue that a president who thinks he has the power to do whatever he wants could try to cancel the next election if he thought he was in danger of losing, or postpone it until he thought his chances were better …
