- US and allies to announce new sanctions on Russian officials and banks
- Confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will nudge ever closer
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Good morning live blog readers. We’ve made it to the middle of an extremely busy week in US politics, with plenty more to come.
The US attorney general Merrick Garland will join the FBI director Christopher Wray and other justice department officials at a press conference later this morning to announce new enforcement actions “to disrupt and prosecute criminal Russian activity.” A statement advising of the briefing gave no further details.