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INAUGURATION DAY! Biden & Harris Sworn In + The Obamas Were A Major Flex + Heroic Capitol Officer Escorts VP Harris + Dior 1s Sneakers Trend

We’ve rounded up all of the Inauguration Day festivities from Biden/Harris getting sworn in, to the Obamas shutting ish down, love being shown to Eugene Goodman - the heroic Black Capitol police officer during the riot, to Dior x Air Jordan 1s trending on social media. Get it all inside…

  A spirit of unity filled the air in Washington, D.C. today two weeks after turmoil erupted when Trump supporters carried out a violent attack against the U.S. Capitol. It was a peaceful transfer of power to kick off a new era in America.

Joe Biden was sworn in and became the 46th president of the United States. He used a 19th century family Bible to be sworn in. The huge Bible is a family heirloom that has been in the Biden family since 1893.

In his inaugural address, President Biden called for the American people to come together after four years of division.

"Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path," Biden said. "We have to be different than this. America has to be better than this. I will be a president for all Americans," Biden said. "I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as those who did."

Watch Biden be sworn in and his inaugural speech below:

Biden also put up his first social media post as President:

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”Let’s get to work,” Biden captioned a picture of himself.

Kamala Harris was sworn in as the Vice President of the United States, making history as the first Black person, first South Asian-American and first woman to ever hold the office. She’s also the first HBCU grad and first member of a Black sorority to do so.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor - the first woman of color to serve on the Supreme Court - administered the oath. VP Harris used two Bibles to be sworn in. One belonged to family friend Regina Shelton (whom Harris views as a surrogate mother). The second Bible was previously owned by the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court Justice and Harris' lifelong political role model.

Watch Madame VP Harris get sworn in below:

Woot!

And here are Kamala’s first social media posts as Vice President:

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Forever President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were an entire FLEX!

The power couple looked like royalty as they made their grand entrance:

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  It’s the Kamala Harris Michelle Obama #Inauguration fist bump for me!pic.twitter.com/9h2kW1odYY

— It’s Madam Vice President Harris to YOU! (@flywithkamala) January 20, 2021

    The Obama-Biden Presidential fist bump pic.twitter.com/3oQ5OWubCs

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) January 20, 2021

  Fist bumps for everyone!

Jennifer Lopez hit the stage to perform a melody of “This Land Is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful” along with a little “Let’s Get Loud” thrown in. Peep her performance below:

Let's get loud... for our next president and vice president of the United States!

Thank you @JLo for coming and being a part of this historic moment! #InaugurationDay pic.twitter.com/nNNtqk7pRC

— Biden Inaugural Committee (@BidenInaugural) January 20, 2021

Lady Gaga served up a performance of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Check it:

Here's Lady Gaga's stunning National Anthem in full.#InaugurationDay pic.twitter.com/kox1wGXlK4

— The Recount (@therecount) January 20, 2021

After the inauguration ceremony, President Biden & Madame VP Harris traveled from the U.S. Capitol to the Arlington National Cemetery to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Biden-Harris was joined by former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton, and the former first ladies.

Then, everyone hopped into limos for the inaugural parade, followed by the family walk to the White House:

President Biden, first lady Dr. Jill Biden and their family walk to the White House during the inaugural parade.⁠ ⁠ Doug Mills / The New York Times via AP pic.twitter.com/l7ZJYtMQog

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 20, 2021

  WATCH: President Joe Biden runs over to NBC News’ Al Roker on final portion of the inaugural parade. @AlRoker: “How does it feel, Mr. President?”@JoeBiden: “It feels good.” pic.twitter.com/XcvU9xUW3H

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 20, 2021

  The inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue featured drumlines from the University of Delaware and Howard University to honor the alma maters of the new president and vice president. Howard’s Band was LIT:

WATCH: Howard University's Showtime Marching Band escorts VP Harris to the White House. pic.twitter.com/v9GhrWBOgN

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 20, 2021

Kamala Harri’s great-nieces – Amara & Leela Ajagu – wore matching coats to honor her at the inauguration.

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Kamala’s great-nieces (daughters of her niece Meena Harris) wore custom fur coats that looked similar to the one their great-aunt wore in a throwback picture. Swipe above and peep the pics below.

Vice President Kamala Harris with her nieces and family walking to the White House #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/mF423oCqqr

— Stephanie Guerilus (@qsteph) January 20, 2021

  Adorbs!

Speaking of Kamala’s family…

Love it VP KAMALA Harris’ nieces and her brother in law with the inauguration drip pic.twitter.com/l34MFtOgVw

— TUNA?!? Iont Eat No Dammm Tuna (@Org_Marsha) January 21, 2021

Nikolas Ajagu, the partner of Vice President Kamala Harris' niece, Meena, rocked a pair of d Dior x Air Jordan 1 sneakers, which are limited edition and have been reselling for over $10,0000. Once sneaker heads caught the coveted sneakers, Dior 1s started trending on Twitter.

Yes smh

— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) January 20, 2021

The entire sneaker community when they saw a pair of Dior 1s in the inauguration #InaugurationDay pic.twitter.com/OZFeaTfYLY

— Le Quack (@akaSosa13) January 20, 2021

  Ha!

Also…

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Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman - who defended the Capitol building and the Congresspeople inside during the Insurrection - escorted VP Kamala Harris into today’s Inauguration. He has also received a promotion to Deputy Sergeant at Arms.

The man who saved the Senate.

Standing ovation and cheers for a true hero, Officer Eugene Goodman. pic.twitter.com/MtmQIr6gZk

— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) January 20, 2021

A true hero.

In case you missed, you can watch Inauguration Day in its entirety below:

Photos: Carolyn Kaster/ Saul Loeb/ Patrick Semansky/Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP

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President Trump Interviews More Supreme Court Candidates (Including Senator Mike Lee)

Senator Mike Lee

According to a White House press pool statement issued shortly before 5 p.m., in the name of White House spokesman Raj Shah, “The President spoke to three potential Supreme Court nominees today.”

Who might they be? And does this number of three candidates from “today” include or exclude Senator Mike Lee?

As reported by the Deseret News, President Donald Trump interviewed Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, yesterday. But the news of that interview broke today.

We don’t yet know the identities of the new interviewees, but we will try to find out (as we unearthed the names of yesterday’s four in-person interviewees). We will update this story or write a new one when we have more information.

As for Senator Lee, I don’t see him as a serious contender. Nominating a politician to the Court is like waking up early to go to the gym. It sounds like a good idea, everybody talks about it, but nobody ever does it.

Yes, some great justices came out of the political world, such as Chief Justice Earl Warren, former governor of California, and Justice Hugo Black, former U.S. senator from Alabama. But it has been a long time since a politician was nominated to the Court. Even if you count Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — who served in the Arizona state legislature, but who was already a state appeals court judge by the time of her SCOTUS nomination — you’re talking about something that last happened almost 40 years ago.

And one can see why: it’s just too risky. Why put up a politician when there are so many great sitting judges to choose from?

On the bright side, Senator Lee has a great legal resume; he’s not just some politician who happens to have a law degree (cough cough, Mike Pence). After graduating from the law school of Brigham Young University, a top institution for Mormon overachievers, Mike Lee clerked for a federal district judge in Utah and then-Third Circuit Judge Samuel Alito. After a stint at Sidley Austin in D.C., he returned to Utah and served as an assistant U.S. attorney. He then worked in the administration of Governor Jon Huntsman, eventually rising to serve as the governor’s general counsel. He returned to D.C. to clerk for Justice Alito on SCOTUS, bounced back to Utah to work for the Salt Lake City of Howrey (may it rest in peace), then entered politics.

Mike Lee also comes from legal royalty. His father was U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee, and his brother is Associate Chief Justice Thomas Lee of the Utah Supreme Court (also on the Trump shortlist).

But nominating Lee would make little sense (even though Senator Lee has said he’s open to the prospect). First, there’s no reason to remove him from the Senate, where he’s an effective member of the narrow Republican majority. Second, because of that narrow majority, he could be placed in the awkward position of having to vote for himself — permissible, but AWK-ward.

Would senatorial courtesy help win him support? Senators are sometimes supportive when their colleagues move to another branch, but here, Senator Lee has a Roe problem. The Democrats and Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have made clear that they don’t want Roe to be overruled, with Senator Collins declaring “hostility” to Roe to be a dealbreaker. But hostility is what Senator Lee has arguably expressed toward Roe. For example, here’s what he said when speaking at the 2018 March for Life:

These Americans march to protest the legal regime that sustains abortion.

The cornerstone of that crumbling edifice is Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that invented a so-called “right” to abortion in the Constitution, and in so doing stripped the unborn of their right to life.

Whether you agree or disagree with Senator Lee’s statements about Roe, it’s hard to see how he could get confirmed in light of them.

Trump interviews Sen. Mike Lee about Supreme Court opening [Deseret News] Trump interviews Sen. Mike Lee for Supreme Court vacancy [Washington Post]

Earlier:

David Lat is editor at large and founding editor of Above the Law, as well as the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.

President Trump Interviews More Supreme Court Candidates (Including Senator Mike Lee) republished via Above the Law

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