Jan. 31, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where tonight President Trump plans to nominate a qualified conservative to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat. Fred Lucas has details on two judges considered his likeliest picks. We've also got a guest commentary on the confirmation process from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Trump pokes a beehive with his executive order restricting travel from certain terrorism-plagued nations, and Josh Siegel and Rachel del Guidice have reports. Plus: The war in Ukraine flares up, and Nolan Peterson has a dispatch.
President Donald Trump will reveal tonight his pick for the Supreme Court, widely reported to be one of two federal appeals court judges—Neil Gorsuch or Thomas Hardiman.
"I consistently maintained that the next president would fill [Justice Scalia's] vacancy," writes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "I held to that view even when nearly everyone thought the president would be Hillary Clinton."
"We are establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States," President Trump said. "We want to make sure we aren't admitting to our country the threats our soldiers are fighting overseas."
Congress is poised to unravel one of the Obama administration's midnight regulations that could prevent certain Social Security disability beneficiaries from buying guns.
Ukrainian troops have been placed on "high alert" along the 250 miles of front lines in the Donbas, Ukraine's embattled eastern region on the border with Russia.
"America welcomes Muslims from 190 countries and temporarily bans all individuals from seven countries," says Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. "The president's executive order is a temporary effort that addresses a serious issue with terrorist hot spots."
Assurant Health's 2015 decision came 18 months after the implementation of Obamacare, and industry watchers argued Assurant Health's end could be attributed to the health care law.
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