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Markey, Booker, Jackson Lee & Others Re-introduce Legislation to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday


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Washington – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Representative Shirley Jackson Lee (TX-18) today re-introduced the
Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
“Juneteenth,” observed on June 19, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is also known as “Emancipation Day,” “Jubilee Day,” and “Juneteenth Independence Day.”
On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which announced that, in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, “all slaves are free.”
Juneteenth is currently recognized by 47 states and the District of Columbia as an official state holiday or observance. In 1980, Texas was the first state to recognize Juneteenth as a paid holiday. ....

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It's Still Trump's Party—GOP Can't Cry Even if They Want To


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History is likely to remember the days following the Capitol riot of January 6 as the last, best chance the Republican establishment had to break Donald Trump’s hold on their party. In the immediate aftermath of the shocking events, Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell seemed on the verge of breaking with Trump. Fomenting a mob that attacked Congress seemed too much even for lawmakers who had hitherto forgiven Trump’s every transgression. McConnell even described the event as a “failed insurrection.”1 ....

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