Kamala Harris narrows VP search as Biden tries to rewrite Constitution

Kamala Harris has narrowed her search for a running mate to a list of three top Democrats, reports suggest.

The vice president has two weeks to pick who will join her on the ticket and has been frantically vetting candidates to take on Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in November.

She has considered a wide range of elected members of the Democratic Party, but now is believed to have zeroed in on a trio of the most popular figures in the country.

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are currently the favorites in the eyes of the campaign, Bloomberg reported.

Shapiro and Kelly are said to be the candidates Republicans most fear going into the general election.

They are both from swing states that will be critical in determining the outcome of the election.

President Joe Biden has called for sweeping reforms to the Supreme Court, including term limits, a binding code of conduct for its nine justices and a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity.

Biden, citing ‘recent ethics scandals’ involving justices and high court rulings that ‘overturned long-established legal precedents protecting fundamental rights’, has called on Congress to pass three major reforms in a bid to ‘restore trust and accountability’ in America’s democratic institutions.

The White House on Monday detailed the contours of Biden’s court proposal, noting how the Democrat believes ‘no one – neither the President nor the Supreme Court – is above the law’.

The President will officially propose the changes today during a speech in Austin, Texas, however his proposals appears to have little chance of being approved by a deeply-divided Congress with just 99 days to go before Election Day.

Regardless, Democrats hope Biden’s proposal will help to focus voters as they consider their choices in the tight presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has sought to frame her race against Republican former President Donald Trump as ‘a choice between freedom and chaos’.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he has ‘serious concerns’ about the outcome of Venezuela’s election after both candidates declared victory.

We have serious concerns that the results announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people… the international community is watching this very closely and will respond accordingly

Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of the presidential race on Sunday – but the opposition and key regional neighbors immediately rejected the results and accused the longtime incumbent of election fraud.

Maduro – who warned citizens there would be a ‘bloodbath’ were he to lose – secured re-election with 51.2 percent of votes, while opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia received 44.2 percent, the electoral council announced.

The 61-year-old addressed supporters at the presidential palace minutes after the announcement, declaring: ‘I can say, before the people of Venezuela and the world, I am Nicolas Maduro Moros, the re-elected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

‘There will be peace, stability and justice. Peace and respect for the law.’

But Venezuela’s opposition coalition insisted it had garnered 70 percent of the vote, rejecting the figures from Maduro’s loyalist electoral authority.

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves also denounced the official result as ‘fraudulent,’ while Chile’s president described it as ‘hard to believe.’

Roman Catholics are reviving their grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris after Democrats rallied to her support to replace Catholic President Joe Biden as the 2024 presidential nominee.

‘Kamala Harris hates what we believe,’ CatholicVote President Brian Burch said in a statement this week, recalling her 2018 attacks against a Catholic judge.

At the time, Harris leveled several written questions to Brian Buescher, a nominee for the judgeship for the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, questioning his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a popular parish Catholic fraternal charity group with over two million members.

Buescher replied patiently that his membership in his parish group would not affect his rulings

That was a step too far for most Catholics, who described Harris’ questions as posing an unconstitutional ‘religious test’ to serve a position in the legislative branch of government.

At this time, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska reacted sharply by introducing a Senate resolution that specifically said that disqualifying a nominee to the courts on the basis of membership in the Knights of Columbus violated the Constitution. The resolution passed unanimously.

But Catholics did not forget.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed Vice President Kamala Harris as a ‘vapid leftist’ in a post responding to her glowing publicity.

Responding to a New Yorker magazine cover featuring Kamala Harris sitting atop a coconut with Democratic party stalwarts dancing around, the Florida governor ridiculed the pro-Harris caricature as corporate media gaslighting.

‘Is it possible to completely manufacture a cultural phenomenon by taking a vapid, leftist San Francisco Democrat and turning her into something that she’s not through nonstop gaslighting?’ DeSantis posted.

‘Corporate media is certainly trying to make “fetch” happen…’

Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says she backs President Biden’s call for Supreme Court reforms.

Harris released a statement Monday morning after the president announced his three-step proposal:

In the course of our Nation’s history, trust in the Supreme Court of the United States has been critical to achieving equal justice under law. President Biden and I strongly believe that the American people must have confidence in the Supreme Court. Yet today, there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court as its fairness has been called into question after numerous ethics scandals and decision after decision overturning long-standing precedent.

That is why President Biden and I are calling on Congress to pass important reforms – from imposing term limits for Justices’ active service, to requiring Justices to comply with binding ethics rules just like every other federal judge. And finally, in our democracy, no one should be above the law. So we must also ensure that no former President has immunity for crimes committed while in the White House.

Harris said the reforms would help restore confidence in the Supreme Court, strengthen Democracy and ensure that no one is above the law.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) announced on Sunday that he tested positive for COVID.

The Democratic senator said he was experiencing ‘minor symptoms’.

‘After a busy week in D.C., I’ve tested positive for COVID-19 and am experiencing mild symptoms,’ he wrote on X.

‘I’m grateful to be fully vaccinated and will be working from home, following the appropriate CDC guidance.’

The Senate is in its last week of votes before the August recess.

Google’s Autocomplete function provides no further results about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, leading conservatives to accuse the web giant of election tampering.

Now, those who enter the terms ‘the assassination attempt of’ into the system, the attempt on the life of Donald Trump just two weeks ago doesn’t show up via Autocomplete.

Roger Marshall, a Republican Senator from Kansas, announced Sunday night that he’s launching an Congressional inquiry into the company.

The news also reached Donald Trump Jr. who issued a blistering statement on X regarding the omission.

A series of bombshell text messages from countersnipers who were supposed to protect Donald Trump at the Pennsylvania rally where an assassin’s bullet nearly killed the president showed them a step behind the gunman.

A massive inquiry has started in the wake of the attempt, which Trump miraculously survived, with the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle coming soon after the July 13 shooting.

When one of the three countersnipers was about to call off at the end of their shift at around 4:26pm, they noticed a man who they later confirmed to be Crooks sitting on a picnic table.

‘Guys I am out. Be safe,’ he wrote. ‘Someone followed our lead and snuck in and parked by our cars just so you know. I’m just letting you know because you see me go out with my rifle and put it in my car so he knows you guys are up there,’ he wrote.