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Joe Biden will be the first sitting president to speak at a Sunday service at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, ...

[passed a voting rights bill](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/john-lewis-voting-rights-advancements-act-house/index.html) in 2021, but attempts by Senate Democrats to change filibuster rules to pass the legislation [were unsuccessful](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/senate-voting-legislation-filibuster/index.html) amid opposition from moderate Democratic Sens. Sinema has since [become an independent](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democratic-party/index.html), while continuing to caucus with Democrats, and Republicans [won control of the House](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/republicans-win-house-of-representatives/index.html) following the November midterm elections, further dashing hopes of finding compromise on voting rights. [steady drip of revelations](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/politics/biden-classified-documents-wilmington-delaware-home/index.html) tied to his handling of classified documents after [his time as vice president](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics/biden-documents-final-days-vice-president-aides-scramble/index.html). On Monday, when the nation honors King on his eponymous holiday, Biden will deliver the keynote address during the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King, Jr. “If you’ve come through the East Wing, you’ve seen the pictures of Dr. served as pastor until his [assassination in 1968.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/politics/civil-rights-activists-martin-luther-king-jr-legacy/index.html) Biden was invited to speak Sunday by the current pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Democratic Sen. Biden narrowly flipped Georgia in 2020, buoyed by support from Black voters, and the state could prove critical in next year’s presidential campaign. [Joe Biden](https://www.cnn.com/politics/joe-biden) delivered remarks Sunday from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, becoming the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon from the historic church where civil rights leader Dr. But we do well to remember that his mission was something even deeper – it was spiritual. Attorney General Merrick Garland [has appointed a special counsel](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics/joe-biden-classified-documents-counsels-office/index.html) to take over the investigation into the classified documents found at the two locations connected to Biden. “We have to choose a community over chaos.

A Republican lawmaker leading investigations of President Joe Biden's administration called on the White House to turn over visitor logs to his home in ...

President Joe Biden's Atlanta speech reiterated his stated focus on redeeming “the soul of America.”

On ABC’s “This Week,” Warnock said Sunday he was “honored” Biden would speak in King’s “spiritual home.” Both were assassinated in the spring of 1968. King is one of Biden’s two heroes, along with late Democratic Sen.

President Joe Biden told Americans to look towards Martin Luther King Jr.'s life for lessons on repairing their divisions, extremism and injustice, ...

"The battle for the soul of this nation is perennial," Biden said in his tribute to King. Many presidents, including Biden, have visited Ebenezer to honor King, usually during events around the time of his birthday. "My message to the nation on this day is we go forward. "We have to choose a community over chaos. Marking Monday's national holiday celebrating King, Biden delivered a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church at the invitation of its pastor, Democratic U.S. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan 15 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden told Americans to look towards Martin Luther King Jr.'s life for lessons on repairing their divisions, extremism and injustice, as he become the first sitting U.S.

President Joe Biden is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with a sermon Sunday at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church that aims to ...

He helped he fueled passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The White House has cited efforts to encourage states to take equity into account for public works projects as they spend money from the administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The White House has tried to promote Biden’s agenda in minority communities. Turning out Black voters in those states will be essential to Biden’s 2024 hopes. The White House on Saturday revealed that additional classified records were found at Biden’s home near Wilmington, Delaware. The task is even steeper now that Republicans control the House.

Members of Congress weighed in Sunday on the ongoing investigation into the classified documents found from when President Biden was vice president.

that you would find a small number of documents certainly not on purpose." He is a Democrat. Jamie Raskin as a Republican. McCarthy said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." - “We have a lot of questions for the National Archives. I'd like to know what these documents were," Schiff said. [CNN's "State of the Union](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1614641902674149378)." [Meet the Press](https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1614634593503645699)" that "it's certainly embarrassing ... Driving the news: Rep. [comparisons](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/11/trump-biden-classified-documents-investigation) between Biden's investigation and the probe into former President Trump's [handling of classified documents](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/13/biden-classified-documents-schumer-trump), saying: "That's apples and oranges." [CNN's "State of the Union](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1614635986994229255)." [ABC's "This Week](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-classified-documents-national-security-implications-schiff/story?id=96438580)."

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden and his team for their handling of classified documents, announcing on ...

“These considerations require avoiding the public release of detail relevant to the investigation while it is ongoing.” “It is troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to classified information,” Comer wrote in the letter. Those documents included US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with the matter. “My concern is how there’s such a discrepancy in how former President Trump was treated by raiding Mar-a-Lago, by getting the security cameras, by taking pictures of documents on the floor. “We would never have known about the possession of the classified documents were it not for investigative reporting by CBS that somehow got a leak to determine that this had happened prior to the election,” the Kentucky Republican told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I will accuse the Biden administration of not being transparent. And he cited the fact that President Trump mishandled the documents.” “Joe Biden used as his closing argument during the midterm elections that Republicans were a threat to democracy. The White House revealed the discovery on Saturday. “So the administration hasn’t been transparent about what’s going on with President Biden’s possession of classified documents. “I think it’s good that this is in the hands of special counsels on both sides and the special counsels are both trustworthy lawyers who I think will get to the bottom of it,” Raskin said. That’s the outrage.”

The president was blasted by Republicans after the documents, dating back to his time as vice president under the Obama administration, were discovered in the ...

private office and in the garage of his residence in Wilmington. Hur, as special counsel to investigate Biden's handling of the documents. "On 12 January 2023, you appointed Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate these matters. We expect your complete cooperation with our inquiry." "So, it's not like they're sitting in the street. offices of the Penn Biden Center, a think tank founded by Biden where he would work on occasion following the end of his role as vice president. By the way, my Corvette's in a locked garage, OK? offices of the Penn Biden Center as well as his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Garland said: "I am confident that Mr. Attorney for the District of Maryland, Robert K. " [Donald Trump](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump), who was found to be in possession of classified documents following an [FBI](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/fbi) raid at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

President Joe Biden has declared federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Alabama to supplement state and local response efforts ...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday that President Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents may have jeopardized national security.

Sauber's statement did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting of the number of classified records. "I think that would be appropriate and consistent with what we requested in the case of Mar-a-Lago." "We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the "I’d like to know what these documents were. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said Saturday that six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden's private library. attorney, Robert Hur, who was appointed as a special counsel on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

On Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the president assured an audience at Ebenezer Baptist Church that its side in the struggle would, indeed, ...

“It’s still the task of our time to make that dream a reality, because it’s not there yet,” Mr. He referred to himself as “a 22-year-old kid in the east side in the civil rights movement,” although he did not claim to have been arrested, as he did last year. King’s vision tangible, to match the words of the preachers and the poets with our deeds. In his sermon, the president extolled Dr. In the sanctuary opposite the previous church, Mr. He played host at the church on Sunday to Mr. And an examination of the numbers suggested that the lower Black turnout might not have changed the outcome of any major race. “I’d like to see the president consistently speak about democracy and voting rights throughout the second half of his first term, not just episodically, because it is one of these fundamental values,” he said. “Obviously, in the last year we were not successful,” Marc H. Even some Democrats fretted that the president “went a little too far in his rhetoric,” as one senator put it last year. And so a leader who arguably owes his presidency to the critical and timely support of Black voters in 2020 was left to offer only vague exhortations of hope and no concrete policy plans or legislative strategies. “Look, I get accused of being an inveterate optimist,” the president added.

U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow said it was "embarrassing" for President Joe Biden to have classified documents found at his Delaware home.

"Then it's up to the attorney general whether or not to apply that policy." They want to keep it going as long as they can." He has questioned the White House's "secrecy" about the matter, calling it alarming. "They don't want to talk with us about how to move the country forward. "Why did they hold it? ... And so, from my perspective, it's one of those moments that obviously they wish hadn't happened." James Comer, R-Kentucky, who is the new chair of the House Oversight Committee, plans an investigation by his panel. Marc Short, a former Trump administration official, said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that he thinks it's now "impossible" for the Biden administration to prosecute Trump for his mishandling of classified documents, Was it because of the midterm elections they didn't want to interfere with? About 300 documents with classification markings have been recovered from Trump since he left office in January 2021, including 33 boxes seized by the FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last summer. Certainly not on purpose," Michigan's senior Democratic senator said Sunday. "'Let's talk about investigations.

President heads to Ebenezer Baptist Church aiming to shore up Black support ahead of likely 2024 run.

The president planned to be in Washington on Monday, to speak at the National Action Network’s annual breakfast, held on the MLK holiday. The administration also has acted to end sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses, scrapping a policy widely seen as racist. Biden was invited to Ebenezer, where King was co-pastor from 1960 until he was assassinated in 1968, by Senator Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor. Turning out Black voters in those states will be essential to Biden’s 2024 hopes. In advance of Biden’s visit to Atlanta, White House officials said he was committed to advocating for meaningful voting rights action. Members of his family attended Biden’s sermon. Like many battleground state Democrats in 2022, Warnock kept his distance from Biden as the the president’s approval rating lagged. We’re all in it together.” The White House on Saturday revealed that additional classified records were found at Biden’s home near Wilmington, Delaware. Unlike some of his other speeches on the topic, Biden did not mention Donald Trump or Republicans directly. Sinema is now an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Since then, there has been no federal action on voting rights.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta until his assassination.

"Folks, for God's sakes, this is the United States of America," Biden said. Biden concluded his speech by describing a bust of King that currently lies in the Oval Office, reiterating that King is one of his inspirations. Biden said his administration is calling on Congress to pass the During the speech, which lasted for roughly 25 minutes, Biden touched on both King's faith and his commitment to equality. "I've spoken before Parliament, kings, queens, leaders of the world — I've been doing this for a long time," Biden said. King served as a pastor of the historic church until his assassination in 1968 at the age of 39.

President Joe Biden made history Sunday by becoming the first sitting president to deliver a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

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Pierre Thomas and Sarah Isgur report on the latest in the special counsel investigations. Sources familiar with the ...

As one source said, classified documents from Biden's time as vice president being discovered in November at his old office at the Penn Biden Center -- a Washington, D.C., think tank -- could more quickly be explained away. On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced he had done just that, naming Robert Hur as special counsel and citing the recommendation of U.S. At the time, the public didn't know that Garland was already aware of the discovery of classified records from the period when Biden was not in office. Within days of classified documents being found at Biden's old office, Trump announced he was running for president and Garland announced the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel in that case, citing "extraordinary circumstances." [Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-classified-documents-matter-compare-trumps/story?id=96336826) at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, after the former president left the White House. [the December discovery of classified documents](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/classified-documents-found-bidens-wilmington-home-white-house/story?id=96437750) inside President Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home served as a tipping point in the lead-up to a special counsel.

Now Biden has what no president wants: A special counsel hanging over him for the foreseeable future.

And then there’s candidate Donald Trump, who will surely make the raid on Mar-a-Lago and Biden’s apparent hypocrisy a centerpiece of campaign rallies Why didn’t the DOJ inform the public of the discovery of the classified documents when they were first discovered on Nov. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) or Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) won’t be on any committees this time to help shape the narrative through the media. If the president, any president, spends 60 weekends away from the White House in under two years in office, the public has a right to know who is visiting him. Regardless of the answers, one thing is clear: The ability and ease of government officials – whether it’s Hillary Clinton after she was secretary of state, Donald Trump post-presidency or Joe Biden post-vice presidency – to take classified materials home without any written documentation must stop. Do they pertain to Hunter Biden’s business deals involving alleged influence peddling in the family name in China and Ukraine? (Biden was attending a funeral at the time of Garland’s announcement.) Why is this information coming out now, six years after the documents were originally stored? And now Biden has what no president wants: A special counsel hanging over him for the foreseeable future, along with a Republican Congress launching its own investigations. “Again, we did something that the last administration got rid of, which is instituting the White House logs,” she said. So, who has visited the president during his nearly 200 days and nights in Delaware? 2 at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.

As President Joe Biden is rumored to soon announce a 2024 bid for re-election, the developing investigation into several batches of classified documents found ...

"Because they're probably laughing their heads off at Mar-a-Lago and all this does is increase the volume of that laugh," Sheinkopf said of the ongoing investigation into documents found at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. But what it does do is it increases the laugh track sound at Mar-a-Lago because it just reduces, for many people, the anger about Trump and his documents and makes it easier for Biden to be criticized." "The biggest risk for Democrats is that it could demoralize their voters, especially if the DOJ’s investigation escalates." "The difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges." "So I don't think this is going to actually affect his thinking on 2024 whatsoever." On Saturday, White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber revealed that five additional pages of classified materials were found at Biden's home on Thursday when attorneys with security clearances went to the location.

Donald Trump doesn't seem to be the only one mishandling classified documents! This week, we found out that on November 2nd last year, President Joe Biden's ...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden and his team for their handling of classified documents, announcing on ...

"These considerations require avoiding the public release of detail relevant to the investigation while it is ongoing." "My concern is how there's such a discrepancy in how former President Trump was treated by raiding Mar-a-Lago, by getting the security cameras, by taking pictures of documents on the floor. "It is troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to classified information," Comer wrote in the letter. Those documents included US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with the matter. Why didn't we hear about this on November 2, when the first batch of classified documents were discovered?" "Joe Biden used as his closing argument during the midterm elections that Republicans were a threat to democracy. "I will accuse the Biden administration of not being transparent. Jamie Raskin, Comer's Democratic counterpart on the House Oversight Committee, was asked about the chairman's remarks. "We would never have known about the possession of the classified documents were it not for investigative reporting by CBS that somehow got a leak to determine that this had happened prior to the election," the Kentucky Republican told CNN's Jake Tapper. "Look, we still don't know what type of documents President Trump had." The letter comes after Biden's aides found five additional pages of classified material at his personal residence in Wilmington on Thursday, the same day a special counsel was appointed to investigate the matter. And we just want equal treatment here with respect to how both former President (Donald) Trump and current President Biden are being treated with the document issue."

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain to release ...

That notification still did not dissuade the President’s attorneys from accessing his residence on January 11, 2022, or White House counsel from accessing his residence on January 12, 2022. On January 12, 2022, the Attorney General announced the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Hur. The National Archives informed the Department of Justice of President Biden’s improper storage of documents on November 4, 2022. Despite the Department of Justice initiating its review of the matter, reports indicate that White House staff and President Biden’s attorneys continued searching his Wilmington property. “The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is continuing to investigate President Biden’s mishandling of highly classified documents. It is troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to classified information.

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee has already launched an investigation into Biden's handling of the records.

[slim majority](https://www.axios.com/2022/11/10/house-republicans-tight-majority-leadership), their subpoena power gives them leeway to launch a battery of investigations — and not investigate other matters. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-La.) to Attorney General Merrick Garland. [Comer said Sunday](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/15/comer-trump-classified-docs-investigation)that the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which he chairs, will not investigate former President Trump over his [handling of classified documents](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/16/trump-classified-documents-chris-christie-trophies). [reinforced](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/15/congress-biden-documents-investigation-sunday)Sunday that the House "will have a role in overseeing what's transpiring" in the investigation. [aunched a formal investigation](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/13/gop-house-judiciary-committee-investigation-biden-docs) into Biden's handling of the classified records. [classified documents found](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/12/biden-classified-documents-timeline) at [President Biden's](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/joe-biden) former office and his Delaware home have provided fresh fodder for Republicans who have vowed to unleash a torrent of investigations into the president.