McCarthy Announces Opposition to Jan. 6 Commission
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The top House Republican said he could not support an inquiry into the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob because it would not examine unrelated “political violence” associated with the left. Representative Rashida Tlaib urged President Biden to end his support of Israel amid its bombing campaign against Hamas.
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Protestors at the Capitol as they breached the doors on Jan. 6.Credit.Jason Andrew for The New York Times
Representative Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, said on Tuesday that he would oppose an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, denouncing the proposed bipartisan inquiry into the deadliest attack on Congress in centuries because it would not examine unrelated “political violence” associated with the left.
Simone Mize-Gregg, with her parents Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg – Photo: Lambda Legal.
The U.S. State Department will begin recognizing the citizenship of children of legally married same-sex couples born abroad via assisted reproductive technology.
Ned Price, a spokesperson for the State Department, announced that the department would be updating its interpretation and application of Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which establishes requirements for acquisition of U.S. citizenship at birth.
The decision to update the department’s interpretation was fueled by several lawsuits brought over the past few years by same-sex couples whose children were denied citizenship because the State Department, under the Trump administration, refused to acknowledge the legality of the parents’ marriages, treating the children of such unions as having been born “out of wedlock.”
State Dept. Ends Discrimination Against Children of Same-Sex Couples
The policy had denied citizenship to the children of many married same-sex couples and had been successfully challenged in court. May 19 2021 4:17 PM EDT
The U.S. State Department is ending a policy that denied citizenship to the children of many same-sex couples.
During Donald Trump’s administration, the department had been sued several times over the policy, which said that children born abroad to married same-sex couples in which one spouse is a U.S. citizen would be recognized as citizens at birth only if they had a genetic relationship to the citizen parent. This denied citizenship to many children born through assisted reproductive technology and treated same-sex couples differently from opposite-sex ones, who did not have to prove a biological relationship.
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