The following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
Colorado police, paramedics plead not guilty to homicide in Elijah McClain death
Three Colorado police officers and two paramedics pleaded not guilty on Friday to homicide charges in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a Black man subdued by police, placed in a choke hold and injected with a sedative, though he was neither armed nor suspected of a crime. Attorneys for all five defendants entered pleas of not guilty to manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other charges. The arrangement was in Adams County, the jurisdiction where the killing took place.
Trump warns US House Republicans not to touch Social Security, Medicare
Former President Donald Trump warned his fellow Republicans on Friday not to “destroy” federal retirement and health benefits as they try to exact spending cuts from President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies in the looming debate over the debt ceiling. “Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security,” Trump said in a two-minute video message posted to social media that could test his influence among Republicans who now control the US House of Representatives.
US Supreme Court justices were questioned, cleared in leak probe
The US Supreme Court’s chief security officer on Friday said she spoke with each of the justices in her inquiry into who leaked a draft of its ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide, adding that the probe found no information implying them or their spouses. Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley made the statement a day after the court released a 20-page report based on the eight-month investigation she led that failed to identify who leaked the draft to the news organization Politico.
Judge rules for Florida’s DeSantis against prosecutor for abortion stance
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, considered a possible 2024 Republican presidential contender, will not be forced to reinstate an elected state prosecutor he suspended over his pledge not to bring criminal cases against people seeking or providing abortions, a federal judge ruled on Friday. US District Judge Robert Hinkle in the state capital, Tallahassee, ruled against prosecutor Andrew Warren, a Democrat, in his lawsuit seeking to be reinstated as head of the state attorney’s office in Tampa. DeSantis on Aug. 4 barred Warren from performing any official “act, duty or function of public office.”
Illinois judge temporarily blocks state ban on semiautomatic gun sales
An Illinois judge temporarily blocked on Friday a newly enacted state ban on many semi-automatic firearms, a measure lawmakers swiftly passed after a gunman killed seven people and wounded dozens with an AR-15-type rifle at a July Fourth parade near Chicago. In granting a restraining order, State Circuit Court Judge Joshua Morrison sided with hundreds of plaintiffs who challenged the law on grounds that unconstitutional legislative maneuvers were used to win its adoption in the Democratic-controlled state General Assembly.
Florida ‘proudly’ teaches African American history, official says, as he defends rejecting AP course
Florida’s education chief on Friday defended the state’s rejection of a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, saying the public schools already teach about racism and slavery, while lashing out at “woke indoctrination.”
The rejection of the course was the latest in a series of actions by the administration of conservative Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on issues that strike a nerve in the country’s culture wars, including outlawing some educational efforts regarding racism, slavery and LGBTQ rights. DeSantis is widely expected to seek his party’s nomination for the presidency in 2024.
Biden has ‘no regrets’ about timing of classified documents disclosure
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday he has “no regrets” about not publicly disclosing before the midterm elections the discovery of classified documents at his former office and believed the matter will be resolved. Attorney General Merrick Garland last week named a special counsel to investigate the matter after classified documents were found at Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home and a Washington, DC, office he used before becoming president.
Abortion opponents call for stricter bans at first post-Roe Washington march
Thousands of abortion opponents rallied in Washington on Friday for the 50th annual “March for Life,” marking a new chapter for a movement that has organized for decades around overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that recognized a women’s right to an abortion. With that ruling now thrown out, march for life leaders and activists were celebrating their movement’s win, pushing for stricter limits on abortion at the state and national level, and praying to change the “hearts and minds” of Americans who support abortion rights.
Biden: We’re going to have a discussion about US debt with House leaders
President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to “have a discussion” with House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on US debt amid a looming debate about raising the debt ceiling. At an event with city mayors, Biden said a US debt default would be a calamity unlike anything ever seen in the United States financially.
US border arrests drop in January after new Biden restrictions-sources
The number of migrants caught crossing the US-Mexico border illegally in January plummeted amid a seasonal slowdown and implementation of new restrictions imposed by US President Joe Biden, a tenuous reprieve as he grapples with record crossings. US Border Patrol agents have arrested an average of about 4,000 migrants per day in January, three US officials told Reuters this week. That’s down from an average of around 7,400 per day during the week before Christmas, one of the officials said.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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