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• Biden taps Brown Jackson for SCOTUS: Joe Biden has selected DC Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the Supreme Court seat of the retiring Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked, with a public introduction coming later today. Biden infamously and illiberally limited the field for his SCOTUS pick to a black woman, saying it was “long overdue.” Biden has been heavily criticized for blatantly appealing to identity politics for his pick. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson lamented: “You know, this is America. Many people fought and gave their lives to bring equity. And now we’re reverting back to identity politics … bringing more division into our country.”

• Three former Minneapolis cops found guilty in George Floyd’s death: After two days of deliberation, a Minnesota jury found police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and You Thao, who were all present at George Floyd’s arrest and death, guilty of violating his civil rights. The jury agreed that the officers failed to provide medical care and failed to intervene as former senior officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on Floyd’s back and neck for nine minutes. The three officers have also been charged with aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter and will face a separate trial this summer.

• Is the Secret Service covering for Hunter Biden? The Secret Service has failed to deliver communications documents related to Hunter Biden’s overseas travel for the years of 2010, 2011, and 2013, which Republican Senators Chuck Grassley (IA) and Ron Johnson (WI) requested last month. Grassley and Johnson had requested Hunter’s travel communications from January 2009 to January 2017 — a period during which Hunter was grifting on his dad’s name. In an apparent rebuff of the senators’ request, U.S. Secret Service Director James Murray responded that “the Secret Service provided documents responsive to your request in accordance with law, longstanding Executive Branch practice, and Department-wide standards,” but that “search parameters did not yield communications for the years 2010, 2011, or 2013.” The senators complain that much of what they have received from USSS has"extensive" and “inappropriate redactions” that have impeded their “ability to understand the full scope of the interactions between Hunter Biden, his associates, and the USSS.”

• Biden administration mum on funding migrant shelters in Mexico: Following a federal judge’s ruling last August against Joe Biden’s termination of Donald Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as Remain in Mexico, ordering its reinstating, GOP lawmakers are wondering where the funds allocated for the program are going. Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken demanding answers. With record numbers of illegal aliens flowing across the U.S. southern border, Republicans have “serious concerns with the Department of State’s refusal to provide information on U.S. foreign assistance funds.” For the MPP to work as designed, migrants seeking asylum must have appropriate shelters in place in Mexico as they wait for their requests to be processed. The MPP designated funds for these shelters. During Trump’s last two years, roughly 68,000 migrants enrolled in MPP, though since Biden took office and following MPP’s reinstatement the total number enrolled at the end of January was 673, and of those migrants only 403 have been returned to Mexico. So, where is the money going?

Headlines

• Biden stops short of sanctioning Putin directly (Fox News)

• “The world’s most powerful forces are watching from afar”: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky takes shot at Biden (Daily Wire)

• Twitter, Facebook, Instagram allowing Kremlin officials to promote war efforts on social media (Fox News)

• Ukraine instructs citizens to make Molotov cocktails to “burn and destroy” invading Russian military (Daily Wire)

• China refuses to call Russian attack on Ukraine an “invasion,” deflects blame to U.S. (CNBC)

• Biden’s already tapped the strategic petroleum reserves to drop prices two cents. Why not one more time? (The Hill)

• Oakland mayor admits campaign to defund police “went too far” (Washington Examiner)

• Policy: The economic consequences of the war in Europe (AEI)

• Satire: Biden warns Russia that if it doesn’t stop he will deploy deadly trans admiral (Babylon Bee)

• Related satire: Biden announces he will move to unfollow Putin on Twitter (Babylon Bee)

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