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Joe Biden Expected To Host Barack Obama For Official White House Portrait Reveal
FORMER PRESIDENTS’ PORTRAITS
Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With
WASHINGTON – Presi- dent Joe Biden is bringing back presidential portrait un- veilings.
Biden will host a White House ceremony later this year to unveil former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama's official portraits, according to an NBC News report.
The Obamas' portraits are “virtually done,” a person fa-
miliar with the process told NBC News.
Former President Donald Trump famously did not par- ticipate in a White House un- veiling of Obama's portrait while in office. He was not ex- pected to participate in a White House ceremony with Biden, either.
Trump is working on his of- ficial portrait, though, accord- ing to NBC News.
The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously affirmed a ruling Monday that provides for an incre- mental increase in how col- lege athletes can be compensated and also opens the door for future legal chal- lenges that could deal a much more significant blow to the NCAA's current business model.
Justice Neil Gorsuch
wrote the court's opinion, which upheld a district court judge's decision that the NCAA was violating antitrust law by placing limits on the education-related benefits that schools can provide to athletes. The decision allows schools to provide their ath- letes with unlimited compen- sation as long as it is some way connected to their edu- cation.
Gorsuch wrote that the nation's highest court limited the scope of its decision on
The Supreme Court as seen on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Washington. The high court ruled earlier this week with a Catholic foster agency in its case against the City of Philadelphia.
Hold Tulsa Rally On Juneteenth
In the days before Donald Trump made a decision to change the date for a June 2020 rally, a Black Secret Serv- ice agent told him that holding it on Juneteenth would be “very offensive,” according to a new report.
In an excerpt from Wall Street Journal writer Michael Bender’s upcoming book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, Trump of- ficials had discussed holding a rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa, Oklahoma because it was run by a Trump-friendly Republi- can and had the most flexible COVID restrictions in the country.
According to Bender, when Trump campaign man- ager Brad Parscale first rec- ommended holding the Tulsa rally on June 19, no one had flagged concerns over the “combination of time and place – as potentially problematic.”
House Democrats Urge Biden To Extend Eviction Ban
Former College Players In Dispute
With NCAA About Compensation
Black Secret Service Agent Told
those education-related ben- efits rather than delving fur- ther into questions about the association's business model. Justice Brett Kavanaugh published a concurring opin- ion that takes a harder line, suggesting that the NCAA's rules that restrict any type of compensation -- including direct payment for athletic accomplishments -- might no
longer hold up well in future antitrust challenges.
"The NCAA is not above the law," Kavanaugh wrote. "The NCAA couches its argu- ments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA's busi- ness model would be flatly il- legal in almost any other industry in America."
Trump It Was ‘Very Offensive’ To
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP
“Had Parscale bothered to ask Katrina Pierson, the highest-ranking Black staffer on the campaign and a close friend of Parscale’s, she would have told him that June 19 was Juneteenth, a signifi- cant holiday for Black Ameri- cans that commemorated the end of slavery,” writes Ben- der.
“She also would have said to him that Tulsa, as most Black Americans are well aware, had been home to one of the blood- iest outbreaks of racial violence in the nation’s history.”
A group of 44 House De- mocrats on Tuesday pressed President Joe Biden to extend the Centers for Dis- ease Control and Preven- tion’s nationwide ban on evictions before it expires at the end of the month.
The lawmakers — led by
Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) — said in a letter to Biden and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky that without further action "mil- lions of renters will once again face the threat of evic- tion" next week.
"Evictions take lives and push households deeper into poverty, impacting every- thing from health outcomes to educational attainment,” they said.
Democrats are urging Biden to extend the eviction ban with some 6 million renter households behind on rent, according to a recent survey by the U. S. Census Bureau.
Democrats are urging Biden to extend the eviction ban with some 6 million renter households behind on rent, according to a recent sur- vey by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The CDC first issued the ban in September, citing a public health law that gives the agency certain powers to prevent communicable dis- eases from crossing state lines. Though Congress and the White House later ex- tended the policy three times, landlords have chal- lenged the eviction morato- rium in courts around the country. The National Asso- ciation of Realtors applied
for Supreme Court relief ear- lier this month, and the case is pending.
Congress has allocated more than $46 billion in emergency rental assistance for state and local officials to distribute to struggling ten- ants, but much of that money still hasn’t reached the hands of landlords, who are still on the hook for property taxes, mortgage payments and op- erating costs.
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