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Tuesday, April 6 POLICE CHIEF CONDEMNS CHAUVIN'S ACTIONS Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified that former police officer Derek Chauvin "absolutely" violated the department's use of force policy when he knelt on George Floyd's neck in May 2020. The doctor who treated Floyd the night of his arrest testified that he believed Floyd's cause of death was "likely" asphyxia. [HuffPost]
DEMS' POWER MOVE The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Democrats will likely have an extra chance to pass a spending bill with a simple majority of votes this year, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office. The filibuster workaround is good news for Democrats' agenda, much of which faces fierce GOP opposition. [HuffPost]
YELLEN CALLS FOR CORPORATE TAX MINIMUM Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged the creation of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to partially offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration's proposed increase in the U.S. corporate rate. She cited a "30-year race to the bottom" as countries slashed corporate tax rates to attract multinational businesses. [AP]
ALL-STAR GAME SET TO BE MOVED OVER VOTING LAW Major League Baseball is to announce that July's All-Star Game will be relocated to Denver after the event was pulled from Atlanta amid a growing outcry over Georgia's new law suppressing voting. Major companies have also spoken out against the voting restrictions. [HuffPost]
TRUMP FAN INDICTED FOR DRAGGING COP INTO CAPITOL MOB Jack Wade Whitton was arrested last week after he was identified as the Trump fan captured on film dragging a D.C. police officer by the neck down the steps of the Capitol and into a violent mob on Jan. 6. Online sleuths nicknamed the suspect "Scallops" because of his distinctive grey backpack. Federal prosecutors want Whitton held until trial. [HuffPost]
POSSIBLE 2ND BREACH IN FLORIDA WASTE POND A drone discovered a possible second breach in a large Florida reservoir of polluted wastewater as more pumps were headed to the site to prevent a catastrophic flood. Fears of a complete breach at an old phosphate plant led authorities to evacuate more than 300 homes, close portions of a major highway and move several hundred incarcerated people. [AP]
WHAT'S BREWING
KATIE HILL CALLS OUT MATT GAETZ'S HYPOCRISY Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.), whom Rep. Matt Gaetz defended when she was the victim of leaked nude photos, said the Florida Republican must resign if the sexual misconduct allegations against him are true. "If true, Matt had engaged in the very practice he'd defended me from," she wrote in Vanity Fair. Gaetz wrote in an op-ed that he's "not a criminal" and is "absolutely not resigning." [HuffPost]
GOP'S NARROW DEFINITION OF INFRASTRUCTURE South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) and other Republicans have latched on to an extremely narrow definition of infrastructure: one that only includes fossil fuels, HuffPost's Chris D'Angelo writes. Their primary line of attack on President Joe Biden's plan is that it does not target what they've dubbed "real" or "traditional" infrastructure. [HuffPost]
NASSAR SURVIVORS STILL WANT ANSWERS Former USA Gymnastics coach John Geddart died by suicide in February after he had been charged with sexual assault after decades of work with young gymnasts. Serial sexual predator Larry Nassar is behind bars. But the 500-plus women who were sexually abused by Nassar and Geddart are still fighting for accountability from the systems that allowed the abuse to flourish, HuffPost's Alanna Vagianos writes. [HuffPost]
ARKANSAS GOV. VETOES ANTI-TRANS BILL Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said he will veto a harmful anti-transgender bill that would prohibit doctors from providing medically necessary treatment to trans kids, citing "government overreach." But legislators could override the veto. [HuffPost]
CLOCK'S TICKING TO DISMANTLE TRUMP RULES Democrats are running out of time to undo many regulations finalized by the administration of former President Donald Trump. They haven't yet used the Congressional Review Act, which gives Congress the power to cancel regulations within a short time period. [HuffPost]
WEINSTEIN APPEALS RAPE CONVICTION More than a year after Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction, his lawyers are demanding a new trial, arguing in court papers that a "cavalier" judge boosted the prosecution's case with improper rulings. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in state prison. [AP]
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