Senate convenes at noon for impeachment managers to lay out argument to convict Donald Trump of ‘incitement of insurrection’

Amanda Holpuch in New York reports for us today on the Biden administration’s early moves over immigration:

Biden has taken a slew of actions to roll back or review Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, but activists say Biden must do more to prove his commitment to meaningful change.

Related: Biden takes action on anti-immigrant policies but Trump’s influence hovers

Whether to find Donald Trump guilty or not has a political dimension for Senate Republicans, who can see that there is still a substantial base to their party loyal to the former president – and even state legislators still clinging to the conspiracy theories that have been spread about the Capitol insurrection.

Associated Press report that a Republican legislative leader in Michigan apologized yesterday after falsely claiming supporters of president Donald Trump were not involved in the deadly attack at the US Capitol, having called it a “hoax”, even as the Senate was watching a video of the events as part of Trump’s trial.

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