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 Alex Wong/GettyHowever the Senate trial turns out, it is immensely gratifying to know that the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil Republicans were pinned in their seats for two hours and 20 minutes with only flat water, bubbly water, or milk to drink on Wednesday afternoon as House manager Adam Schiff, with the skill of a practiced trial lawyer, outlined the case against Donald John Trump.
He may be "shifty Schiff" to Donald Trump and his allies, but any fair-minded impeachment watcher will tell you that Schiff did a masterful job detailing the building blocks of Trump's corruption with regard to Ukraine, the lies he told along the way, the cast of enablers who sought to hide the truth—and finally, the public servants who came forward to testify about what they witnessed.
Schiff presented enough evidence to rebut the White House argument that the House managers had a weak case. He put to bed any notion of the quick dismissal GOP leader McConnell might have once envisioned. But for all the Democrats' success and skill in presenting their case, getting witnesses and documents that would totally nail Trump remain just out of reach.
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Earlier Wednesday, Trump told reporters at a news conference in Switzerland that he "can live either way" with the Senate's decision on whether to call witnesses for his historic impeachment trial.
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 Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner, said Wednesday he wants "no part" of a witness swap reportedly being discussed by some members of his own party.
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Richard Ratcliffe says he wants to hold Boris Johnson to his promise to "leave no stone unturned".
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 GettyThis piece originally appeared in The MIT Press Reader
I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana … I mean one on marijuana that just tears the ass out of them. … By God we are going to hit the marijuana thing, and I want to hit it right square in the puss. … I want to hit it, against legalizing and all that sort of thing.
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 Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not make a deal where he would testify at the impeachment trial in exchange for the testimonies of former and current top Trump officials.
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 House Democrats launched into lengthy arguments that broke little ground, if any, in President Trump's impeachment trial Wednesday -- as the head impeachment manager, California Rep. Adam Schiff, suggested that Russians could attack the U.S. and insisted that removing Trump from office was necessary because the integrity of the 2020 election could not be "assured."
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The Republican barrage was led by Trump himself, who called the top House managers "sleazebags" while denouncing his impeachment as a "hoax" and "disgrace" to his presidency.
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Adam Schiff and his team presented the evidence and witness testimony they had gathered in the impeachment inquiry.
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 via CSPAN/YouTubeThe memory of murdered rapper Biggie Smalls was manifestly in the house—the House of Representatives—three years before it was more subtly invoked in the Senate.
Back on March 9, 2017, three representatives took separate opportunities on the House floor to make the 20th anniversary of Biggie's still unsolved slaying.
The first two, Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands and Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York, both quoted the best-known refrain from "Juicy," the autobiographical hit song in which Biggie describes his rise from small time crack dealer to hip-hop megastar, from street life to sweet life.
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The House impeachment managers lay out their case. In great detail.
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Senate Democrats and the former vice president tried to knock down reports that some were working on a deal to suggest testimony by Biden and Trump officials.
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It's been less than two days, but one storyline of the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump has already emerged: Democrats are leaning heavily on California's Rep. Adam Schiff to make the case against the President.
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 The State Department is expected to introduce new immigration rules to crack down on "birth tourism" and prevent pregnant women from giving birth in America to facilitate U.S. citizenship for their child.
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The House impeachment managers are laying out a detailed case that President Trump abused his power to pressure Ukraine to help him cheat in the election.
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The Labour leadership hopeful speaks to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
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The first in-person presidential appearance at the annual event in its 47-year history is President Trump's latest gesture of support for a cause dear to his evangelical base.
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The prime minister urges the UK to "move forwards as one" as legislation securing the EU exit passes.
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 Newly released Office of Management and Budget documents from last summer show Trump appointees' intense interest in withholding aid to Ukraine.
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 After keeping the august members of the U.S. Senate in their seats for roughly 18 of the previous 30 hours, Adam Schiff told the group of not-so-young lawmakers that he and a fellow impeachment manager had just over two hours more to go Wednesday night.
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Sen. Susan Collins sent a written note early Wednesday morning during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial minutes before Chief Justice John Roberts admonished both legal teams, a source with knowledge of the event tells CNN.
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With the impeachment trial underway, senators have been listening in and taking notes as President Donald Trump's defense team and the House managers make their case.
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The majority leader, facing defections in his own ranks, made a strategic retreat this week in an effort to retain his grip on the trial
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A call for civility by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. underscores the delicate balance he is trying to maintain.
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 Democratic presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard sued Hillary Clinton for defamation on Wednesday, seeking at least $50 million in damages for harming her reputation by suggesting last year that one of the party's White House contenders was a "Russian asset."
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It's pretty contradictory, some legal experts suggest, and could affect the administration's efforts in those cases.
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One of them, Rep. Jason Crow, is a veteran and impeachment manager.
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The Senate is taking up a package proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) designed to ensure a swift trial of the president.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell argued Tuesday that the rules he is proposing for President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial "closely" follow past precedent, and invoked the 1999 trial of President Bill Clinton in particular.
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 Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyHouse Democrats opened their case to remove President Trump from office by imploring the same Senate Republicans who have stood in lockstep with the White House that they're the only ones who can save American democracy.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the House intelligence committee chairman turned lead impeachment manager, began his side's arguments with an appeal to history. He bookended his recitation of Trump's pressure campaign to suborn Ukraine into aiding his reelection with references to Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin and name checked any other member of the Founding Generation—his colleague Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) later added James Madison—who could help contextualize the constitutional obligation Schiff said senators have when faced with "a man who would be a king."
It's likely the only play Schiff, Jeffries and their fellow Democratic impeachment managers have. The unyielding political reality they confront is that only with the assent of 20 Republican senators, practically a third of the entire GOP Senate conference, will Trump be removed from office. Even convincing enough of those Republican senators to vote for hearing new evidence in the trial—just four are needed—is viewed as a tall order for Democrats.
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Democrats accused President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial on Wednesday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get re-elected and warned that America's global prestige would suffer if the U.S. Senate acquits him.
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 The billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer reiterated his support Wednesday for reparations for African- Americans suffering from the legacy of slavery.
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 Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager in the president's trial, told the Senate that if Trump's "conduct is not impeachable, then nothing is."
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 Oliver Douliery/GettyAs Donald Trump brags about rigging his own impeachment trial, since "Honestly, we have all the material. They don't have the material," his lawyers are lying about what impeachment is and who's doing the rigging.
The first argument of their brief to the Senate, signed by Trump's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, is that the impeachment lacked due process and was "rigged." Specifically, they say on page one, "the process that brought the articles here violated every precedent and every principle of fairness followed impeachment inquiries for more than 150 years."
Overall, in a 110 page brief, they make this claim on 43 pages (1, 4-8, 21-23, 37-42, 46-47, 53-54, 55-80). They say the "rigged" process justifies the White House's refusal to comply with subpoenas for documents, key officials' refusal to testify on the grounds of executive privilege, and the withholding of evidence that Trump bragged about today.
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The lead Democratic impeachment manager claimed Wednesday that President Donald Trump had "bragged" about withholding materials from Congress as lawmakers weigh removing him from office -- partly because they allege he's obstructing their investigations.
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 The billionaire running for the Democratic nomination responded to comments from the president calling him a "major loser."
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A bipartisan majority of Americans want to see new witnesses testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and the public appears to be largely following the proceedings even after a bruising congressional inquiry that lasted several months, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling released Wednesday.
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 The key witness against President Trump's former confidant and political mentor Roger Stone has written a highly unusual letter to a federal judge asking her not to sentence Stone to prison.
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The latest CNN/SSRS national poll testing the Democratic primary and the general election is out, and it's a barnburner of a poll. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rose to his highest level ever in CNN Democratic primary polling and is in a top tier with former Vice President Joe Biden. President Donald Trump is in trouble for reelection nationally -- but he is in a better position in the battleground states.
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Newly released emails and other documents show that some of those now sitting as jurors in Trump's impeachment trial were also unhappy about his move to freeze aid last year.
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Sentiment registered in the latest poll has remained consistent in that it breaks sharply along party lines.
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All three of the UK's devolved law-making bodies will have voted against the EU withdrawal agreement.
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 President Trump on Tuesday prepared to address the global business community in Davos while his adversaries back home prepared to begin an impeachment trial.
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