Procedural vote scheduled for 5 30 p. M. Eastern time. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. Ck will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god who has given us the gift of life, consecrate with your presence the way our lawmakers work today. Since they dont know what a day will bring, help them to strive to serve you in faithfulness each moment. In all things draw their minds to the goal of seeking to please you. As they draw near to you, illuminate their paths with your wisdom and grace. Show them how to unselfishly serve your great purposes for humanity, proving themselves worthy of your manifold blessings. And, lord, as millions mourn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs death, send the solace of your comfort. We pray in your unifying name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisib
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Treated much differently than it was and i think its treated unfairly. Mr. President , the paycheck protection program, 15 million jobs lost, it has run out much money. Speaker pelosi is blocking that funding. Do you know why . President trump if she thinks its politics, i dont think its good politics. Nancy pelosi is blocking it. Schumer is blocking it. I dont think its good politics. But i dont think it. Its the same power all of these Small Businesses added together as the big companies. About 5050. And its so important. They would be scattered if we werent able to do what we are doing. We are giving Small Businesses who wont make it, they cant because they are cleesd. So when we reopen they can get back into business. I think it basically passed unanimously twice, the first section which is 350 billion. Nancy pelosi is blocking it. She sits in her house in San Francisco overlooking the ocean, and she doesnt want to come back. She has got to get back and get this thing approved. Ver
Ben, i want to start with you. We got a glimmer of hope as we see maybe social distancing is actual working, the growth of coronavirus cases is slowing. We also, of course, had unprecedented moved by the moves by the federal reserve. So tell us what you see in the market. Its got everything that it could have wanted this week. It got the good news, the illness appears to be slowing and then the fed coming in with this massive package where its going to buy highyield bonds and muni bonds to make sure that the markets are functioning correctly. You couldnt ask for anything more. And its just, its just spurred the market back to this height that its had. Its now up more than 20 from the bottom. Jon jon which is extraordinary, but you dont necessarily see this continuing. Were not going to see a v straight back to 30,000 on the dow. It just usually doesnt happen that way. Theres the too much that can go wrong. We can see the disease either pick up again or maybe even show up in the next si
Powells pivotal vote in the case. Indeed, that reasoning flouted precedent at the time and has since been relegated to nothing more than an isolated relic of an abandoned doctrine. The states only defense in support of the judgment below is that the sixth amendment does not require unanimity at all, that is hnot in state courts or federal court. This court should reject that argument. As the court has said many times over many decades, the sixth amendment requires a unanimous verdict to convict. In particular, what the court has said is the sixth amendment right to try by jury carries with it the essentials of the common law. The common law authorities are uniform, explicit, and absolute. Unanimity is an absolute requirement to trial by jury. The reasons that the common law commentators gave for that rule resonate just as powerfully now as they did then. In a nutshell, were not prepared to take away somebody ice liberty unless a Cross Section of the community uniformly agrees criminal