- No evidence yet of federal hate crime in Atlanta-area spa killings, officials say (NBC News) – Georgia officials have previously stated that state hate crime charges are still possible, which would be separate from a federal case.
- Evidence in Capitol attack investigation trending toward sedition charges, departing chief says (Washington Post) – Sedition is a rarely invoked charge for those who use violence to hinder the execution of federal law.
- Top Senate Republican says Americans don’t need ‘alternative versions’ of January 6 Capitol attack (CNN) – Sen. Blunt pushing back on Senator Ron Johnson’s narrative that here was no violence on the Senate side of the US Capitol during the attack, and earlier this month he said he “never really felt threatened” and “wasn’t concerned” during the riot because he believed the rioters were “people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law.”
- Biden response to border crisis ‘isn’t incompetence’, but ‘is by design’, Tom Homan tells Mark Levin (Fox News) – Former ICE acting director claims president ‘sold out this country’ to progressives.
- Rep. Tom Reed apologizes for sexual misconduct detailed in Post report, won’t challenge Cuomo in 2022 (Washington Post) – He said he planned to dedicate himself to making amends for his past behavior and helping others battling substance abuse.
- Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock on Atlanta Spa Shootings: ‘We All Know Hate When We See It’ (Daily Beast) – Georgia’s first Black senator, Democrat Raphael Warnock, says “hate” was central to the murders of eight people, six of them Asian women, in Atlanta.
- Trump slams Biden over border ‘crisis’, accused him of causing ‘death and human tragedy’ (Fox News) – Trump took aim at the “pathetic, clueless performance” of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and wrote “The only way to end the Biden Border Crisis is for them to admit their total failure and adopt the profoundly effective, proven Trump policies.”
