Federal jury reconvenes to contemplate charging Trump over January 6 rebellion – stay

Good morning, US politics weblog readers. The wait continues to seek out out whether or not particular counsel Jack Smith will indict Donald Trump over his involvement within the January 6 rebellion, and there are indicators this morning a choice may come quickly. CNN noticed grand jurors arriving at a federal courthouse in Washington DC the place they’re contemplating proof within the case, however there’s no telling when a choice may come.

Indicators that Trump may very well be charged have been mounting. Final week, the previous president mentioned he had obtained a goal letter from Smith, a step sometimes taken earlier than somebody is indicted. And yesterday, Trump mentioned he anticipated expenses to be filed “any day now”. However the winding authorized saga has but to dent his standing within the GOP, and even within the presidential race at massive. New polling from the New York Occasions exhibits him crushing each different Republican candidate within the presidential nomination race, and tied with Joe Biden within the basic election.

Right here’s what else is going on right this moment:

• Kamala Harris is heading to Orlando to deal with the twentieth Girls’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Quadrennial Conference at 2.15pm jap time. We’ll maintain an eye fixed open if she reiterates her criticism of Florida’s new Ron DeSantis-backed faculty curriculum, which means that slavery wasn’t so dangerous.

• Biden, in the meantime, continues his seashore trip in Delaware. He has no public occasions scheduled.

• Alabama lawmakers are raging over Biden’s choice to cancel US Area Command’s deliberate transfer to the state, Punchbowl Information studies. The choice got here amid Republican senator Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing blockade of navy promotions in protest of the Pentagon’s abortion coverage.