Jackson gains GOP supporters, assuring Supreme Court confirmation.
HOW AMAZON WORKERS BEAT UNION BUSTERS AT THEIR OWN GAME Faced with union organizing efforts in Alabama and New York City last year, Amazon hired a bunch of anti-union consultants to throttle the campaigns. But many of them had the misfortune of crossing paths with Connor Spence at Amazon's JK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island. Dave Jamieson has the story on the creative tactics the workers used to discredit and fluster the busters and win a historic election. [HuffPost] MORE REPUBLICAN SENATORS ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR KETANJI BROWN JACKSON Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) announced that they will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making them the second and third Republicans to confirm their vote for President Joe Biden's court pick. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted earlier to send Jackson's nomination to the full Senate, with a final vote expected later this week. [HuffPost] BIDEN: PUTIN SHOULD FACE WAR CRIMES TRIAL After Ukrainian officials said the bodies of civilians were found in Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin "is a war criminal." Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide. [AP] ZELENSKYY TO ADDRESS UN AMID OUTRAGE OVER CIVILIAN DEATHS Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to speak today to U.N. Security Council diplomats outraged by growing evidence that Russian forces deliberately killed civilians in Ukraine, many of them shot in yards, streets and homes, and their bodies left in the open. Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies. [AP] | | | 'IT'S NOW OR NEVER' ON CLIMATE Even if humanity manages to immediately phase out fossil fuels and rein in greenhouse gas emissions, planetary warming is likely to at least temporarily soar past 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report concluded. Political forces continue to be the biggest obstacles to aggressive action. [HuffPost] HE'S BACK! (FOR A VISIT) Former President Barack Obama is coming back to the White House today for the first time since leaving office, and he's going to speak about one of his favorite topics: the Affordable Care Act. In addition to touting the law's accomplishments and survival in the face of repeated Republican efforts at repeal, Obama is likely to promote a pair of Democratic efforts to make it stronger. [HuffPost] KANSAS BRINGS HOME FOURTH NCAA TITLE Kansas overcame North Carolina 72-69, thanks to a second-half flurry in the Men's Final Four NCAA tournament. It was the Tar Heels' record 21st — and possibly most unlikely — trip to the Final Four. But instead it's the Kansas Jayhawks taking the banner home. [AP] SENATE AGREES ON SLIMMED-DOWN $10 BILLION COVID PACKAGE Bipartisan Senate bargainers have agreed to a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19, but without any funds to help nations abroad combat the pandemic. The accord represents a deep cut from the $22.5 billion Biden initially requested, and from a $15 billion version that both parties' leaders had negotiated last month. [AP] COLORADO GOV SIGNS LAW TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS Colorado joined a handful of other states in codifying the right to abortion in statute, in anticipation of a pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a challenge to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Gov. Jared Polis signed into law the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which bans local governments from imposing their own restrictions on reproductive care. [AP] | | | Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? — Subscribe here! ©2021 HuffPost BuzzFeed, Inc 111 E 18th St, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates
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