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Expected live at 11 a.m. ET: The Senate is expected to vote on the USMCA trade agreement. At noon, impeachment Managers, led by the House Sergeant at Arms, hold a procession ceremony.

Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries has accused the GOP of blindly following President Donald Trump 'like a cult,' while Democrats the presdient for the border crisis. “We are urging our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to show some decency, show some strength and stop acting like you are part of a cult,” Jeffries said.House Democrats want the GOP to support a $4.5 billion emergency spending bill that will implement restrictions on how border officials treat illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) chided President Trump for embarrassing former FBI agent Peter Strzok and bureau attorney Lisa Page at a House Judiciary Committee open hearing on Wednesday. Jeffries said there was no witch hunt because all the people who started the investigation (Comey) or were investigators (Mueller) were Republicans. (snip) "You were not concerned about the representational interest of Hillary Clinton," Jeffries said to Trump. "In fact, the top Republicans said the sole objective was to undermine her, the former first lady and Secretary of State. You weren't concerned with the reputational interest of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page....

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hasn’t taken office yet, but she’s already looking to take out fellow Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), according to a report Tuesday. Ocasio-Cortez, who shocked the political world when she defeated veteran Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley, said last month she’d support challenges to Democrats who are not as left-leaning as their constituents. Politico reported that she’s recruited an African-American woman to challenge Jeffries in 2020. A source told the news website that running a primary rival to Jeffries, who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens, was the “highest priority” for Ocasio-Cortez. Jeffries was recently elected the...

WASHINGTON – New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said he doesn’t regret calling President Trump the “grand wizard” of the White House and called on the commander-in-chief to own up to his decades of “colorful” behavior. “It’s colorful language,” Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I think that the president is going to have to own his pattern of behavior that has taken place not year after year, but decade after decade.” Jeffries, who was recently elected to House leadership as Democratic Caucus Chairman, used a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event to refer to Trump by the...

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D- NY) blasted President Donald Trump during a speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Jeffries spoke at the National Action Network event about the lessons from Dr. King that still resonate today. At one point he told the audience, “We have a hater in the White House. Birther-in-Chief. The Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. One of the things we’ve learned is that while Jim Crow may be dead he’s still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well.”

A New York City congressman said on the House floor that "every racist in America voted for Donald Trump." Hakeem Jeffries (D), who represents East New York and Coney Island, said "so many folks dripping in hatred flocked to his candidacy." "Why would people that worship at the altar of white supremacy [be] drawn to Donald Trump's campaign?" he asked.....

There is very dangerous legislation making its way through both the House of Representatives and Senate that will finish the United States. The sharia bill calls for Islamic blasphemy laws — the criminalization of speech that offends or insults — who, exactly? Well, that is up to the enforcer, is it not? On Wednesday, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced “The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014″ (S.2219), which seeks “to examine the prevalence of hate crime and hate speech on the Internet, television, and radio to better address such crimes.” Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) introduced a companion bill in the...

Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has called presidential assistant Steve Bannon a “stone-cold racist.” Jeffries offered that description during an interview with Katy Tur on her MSNBC show yesterday in explaining why it would be “hard” for him to attend a meeting between President Trump and the CBC if Bannon were present. Joy Reid played the Jeffries clip on her MSNBC show this morning during a discussion of a possible meeting between the president and the CBC. April Ryan, the reporter that President Trump had requested, at this week’s press conference, to set up a meeting with the...

Pfc. Douglas J. Jeffries Jr. – 20 Springville, CA – 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division One of two soldiers killed when enemy forces attacked their unit with a roadside bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on September 8, 2011 I spoke with Doug's grandfather Steve Jeffries today at a local gas station and he asked me why a singer that died from a drug overdose rated flags lowered to half-staff statewide when all his grandson got was flags lowered to half-staff in Tulare county by order of the Board of Supervisors. Good question but I...

WONDERLAND Scooter Libby and Reputation Prosecutions that wreak ruin on a lifetime. The trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is the closest version of a Red Queen trial this country has had in a long time. One says that knowing it might start a stampede from past defendants laying claim to the most upside-down prosecution. Lewis G. Carroll's account of the Knave' s trial before the Red Queen and White Rabbit is famous for the Queen's dictum, "Sentence first, verdict afterward." But read the full transcript of the mock trial and one will see that the real subject is not...

THE speech was grotesquely racist - littered with cracks about dead white people. And it featured an insane call for blacks to outsmart the white man by ridding their bodies of all things white: white milk, white sugar, white bread. But this racist rant was not spoken in a basement somewhere. It was part of a city-hosted "Unity in Diversity" event yesterday - and it took place inside the headquarters of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. During working hours. Your tax money at work. The speaker was Dr. Leonard Jeffries, the disgraced City University of New York...