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This is an update for the meeting: City Council Regular Meeting - Mar 01 2021
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City Council Regular Meeting - Mar 01 2021

The senate today will be sent articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from the house today. Mayorkas is accused of "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to move to quickly dismiss the charges.        The Supreme Court will convene today to consider if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act applies to the January Sixth rioters. Fischer vs the United States initially went to the defendant Joseph Fischer before it was successfully appealed by a divided decision in the District of Columbia Circuit.       President Biden will outline his tax agenda in his hometown of Scranton on Tuesday. It will kick off a campaign tour across the key swing state of Pennsylvania this week. Severe thunderstorms will continue to make their way across the midwest today. An area from Rochester, Minnesota to Little Rock, Arkansas is expected to be affected by powerful storms. Hail, damaging wind gusts, and even a few tornadoes are possible in some areas.        A former Marine from California will spend the next nine years behind bars for the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic. The Justice Department announced the sentence for Chance Brannon Monday. Brannon was apparently motivated by neo-Nazi ideology and in possession of racist and antisemitic materials.        The historic 17th Century stock exchange in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark is up in flames. The building was under renovation. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.        

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