Two prominent Indigenous leaders this week separately pressed President Joe Biden on why he hasn’t released Leonard Peltier from prison ― and signaled that tribal leaders and Native rights advocates plan to make this a priority issue in the 2024 presidential election.Fawn Sharp, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, said in a Monday letter to Biden that he regularly talks about his commitment to strengthening the federal government’s relationship with Native communities. But lost in that commitment is doing anything about Peltier, the Indigenous rights activist the...…Two prominent Indigenous leaders this week separately pressed President Joe Biden on why he hasn’t released Leonard Peltier from prison ― and signaled that tribal leaders and Native rights advocates plan to make this a priority issue in the 2024 presidential election.Fawn Sharp, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, said in a Monday letter to Biden that he regularly talks about his commitment to strengthening the federal government’s relationship with Native communities. But lost in that commitment is doing anything about Peltier, the Indigenous rights activist the...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― It looks like President ’s nominee to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Beck, isn’t going anywhere.It’s just math. Beck’s nomination doesn’t appear to have the votes to clear the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a committee member, announced her opposition earlier this month, which would put the vote count at a 13-13 tie if every other Republican voted yes and every Democrat voted no. A tie means Beck almost certainly...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― It looks like President ’s nominee to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Beck, isn’t going anywhere.It’s just math. Beck’s nomination doesn’t appear to have the votes to clear the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a committee member, announced her opposition earlier this month, which would put the vote count at a 13-13 tie if every other Republican voted yes and every Democrat voted no. A tie means Beck almost certainly...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement” ”Advertisementdidn’t say much of anything as , one by one, raised concerns with Wilson’s record and said they would be voting no.“His record is an antithesis to what the American people are marching for and demanding right now.”- Sen. Kamala HarrisAdvertisementLike so many of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees, Wilson is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that has effectively been picking Trump’s judicial nominees for him. There is to these court picks,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement” ”Advertisementdidn’t say much of anything as , one by one, raised concerns with Wilson’s record and said they would be voting no.“His record is an antithesis to what the American people are marching for and demanding right now.”- Sen. Kamala HarrisAdvertisementLike so many of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees, Wilson is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that has effectively been picking Trump’s judicial nominees for him. There is to these court picks,...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― As the nation grapples with a deadly and nationwide for racial justice, Senate are acting with urgency … to put Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s protege into a lifetime seat on the nation’s second-most-powerful court.The Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Justin Walker’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. There’s nothing particularly pressing about filling this court seat; it’s not even vacant until September. But McConnell is personally...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― As the nation grapples with a deadly and nationwide for racial justice, Senate are acting with urgency … to put Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s protege into a lifetime seat on the nation’s second-most-powerful court.The Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Justin Walker’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. There’s nothing particularly pressing about filling this court seat; it’s not even vacant until September. But McConnell is personally...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementBut their public support glosses over McGlynn’s and Dugan’s opposition to abortion rights, which is odd considering that both senators are known for being strong supporters of women’s rights.Durbin and Duckworth are certainly hampered in choosing federal judicial nominees. By Senate custom, senators and presidents work together in naming federal district court judges for each senator’s state. Under the agreed-upon selection process for Illinois, the president’s party gets to pick candidates for...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementBut their public support glosses over McGlynn’s and Dugan’s opposition to abortion rights, which is odd considering that both senators are known for being strong supporters of women’s rights.Durbin and Duckworth are certainly hampered in choosing federal judicial nominees. By Senate custom, senators and presidents work together in naming federal district court judges for each senator’s state. Under the agreed-upon selection process for Illinois, the president’s party gets to pick candidates for...WW…

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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×a national health emergency that has left millions of Americans out of a job and worrying about health insurance, Senate moved forward Wednesday with confirming a judicial nominee who has called the Affordable Care Act “illegitimate,” “perverse” and “liberal-utopia-dictated healthcare.”The Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Cory Wilson, 49, who is up for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.Advertisementgrilled Wilson, a Mississippi state judge and...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×a national health emergency that has left millions of Americans out of a job and worrying about health insurance, Senate moved forward Wednesday with confirming a judicial nominee who has called the Affordable Care Act “illegitimate,” “perverse” and “liberal-utopia-dictated healthcare.”The Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Cory Wilson, 49, who is up for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.Advertisementgrilled Wilson, a Mississippi state judge and...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut even testing negative for the coronavirus doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have it. The viral test can give false negatives. The Abbott ID NOW test, for example, which the White House uses, may have a false-negative rate .In the early stages of infection, that the virus simply won’t be detected. Additionally, a person with COVID-19 before feeling symptoms, and emerging research suggests that people may be most likely to spread the virus during this...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut even testing negative for the coronavirus doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have it. The viral test can give false negatives. The Abbott ID NOW test, for example, which the White House uses, may have a false-negative rate .In the early stages of infection, that the virus simply won’t be detected. Additionally, a person with COVID-19 before feeling symptoms, and emerging research suggests that people may be most likely to spread the virus during this...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Imagine that voting for president was so easy you could do it from your couch, in the same clothes you’ve been wearing for days because you’re in the middle of a pandemic and you’ve kind of let yourself go, in between back-to-back episodes of the best show on television, “Love Is Blind.”Imagine that it could save your life, too.Why wouldn’t you do this?You can do this in Oregon, which has been conducting all of its statewide elections entirely by mail since 1998. The process is simple. It’s...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Imagine that voting for president was so easy you could do it from your couch, in the same clothes you’ve been wearing for days because you’re in the middle of a pandemic and you’ve kind of let yourself go, in between back-to-back episodes of the best show on television, “Love Is Blind.”Imagine that it could save your life, too.Why wouldn’t you do this?You can do this in Oregon, which has been conducting all of its statewide elections entirely by mail since 1998. The process is simple. It’s...WW…

Greetings my friends, supporters, loved ones. I know I’ve probably said this, or things like this, many times. Every time I say it, it is as heartfelt as the first time. From the bottom of my soul, I thank you for your support.Living in here, year after year, day after day, week after week, plays on your concepts of time and your process of thought beyond what you can imagine.Every day, I have to say a prayer in the morning, about keeping my spirit up and the spirits of our people.The struggles of the American Indian Movement, which are the struggles of all of us, have never ended for me....…Greetings my friends, supporters, loved ones. I know I’ve probably said this, or things like this, many times. Every time I say it, it is as heartfelt as the first time. From the bottom of my soul, I thank you for your support.Living in here, year after year, day after day, week after week, plays on your concepts of time and your process of thought beyond what you can imagine.Every day, I have to say a prayer in the morning, about keeping my spirit up and the spirits of our people.The struggles of the American Indian Movement, which are the struggles of all of us, have never ended for me....WW…