The spears turns 38 years old today. The news is next buy from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Corba Coleman White House lawyers won't participate in Wednesday's Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports the White House claims the process is unfair to the president White House counsel paths that the Loney said in a letter to a committee chairman Jerry Nadler that the White House would not participate in this Wednesday's hearing set to look at the historical and constitutional basis of impeachment in the 5 page letter Cipel only repeatedly complained about the process undertaken by House Democrats thus far as for Wednesday's hearing he said quote an invitation to an academic discussion with law professors does not begin to provide the president with any semblance of a fair process however said Lowney didn't yet rule out the White House participating in future impeachment hearings conducted by the Judiciary Committee Tamara Keith n.p.r. News the United Nations has opened its global climate conference in Madrid delegates are seeking solutions as extreme weather affects much of the world's population the B.B.C.'s Mike McGraw reports from Madrid as the diplomats begin their talks a report from Save the Children estimates that 33000000 people in east and southern Africa have been driven to hunger but what they term climate shocks drugs floods and the impacts of the strongest ever cycle owns the continent to limit these consequences in the future experts argue the world needs to set out plans for dramatic climate action during the next 12 months this meeting in Madrid is the 1st step on that route the B.B.C.'s Mike McGraw reporting the National Weather Service has posted winter storm warnings across much of New England there up from Pennsylvania to Southern Maine from New Hampshire Public Radio any Ropeik says that on Sunday the air traffic tracking site Flight Aware dot com said more than 8000 flights were delayed the 1st half of the storm has already. 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Good morning the impeachment inquiry will continue this week after lawmakers took a break for Thanksgiving the House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on impeachment but President Trump will not be here in Washington he'll be in London for a NATO meeting when that hearing takes place n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson is with us this morning Mara So we're moving into a new phase here what's happened what happens this week what happens is that the House Intelligence Committee that conducted the original hearings on Ukraine on the president's conduct will start circulating a draft of its report today and then the action moves to the Judiciary Committee and they're going to start looking at what if any articles of impeachment there should be the Intelligence Committee Democrats believe that they've established that the president did ask you crane to open an investigation into his political rival Joe Biden at the same time withholding military aid and in an exchange for an announcement of that investigation but the Judiciary Committee now has to decide if what the president did was an abuse of power and whether it was bad enough to warrant his removal from office the very 1st hearings are Wednesday and the 1st witnesses will be constitutional experts legal scholars to testify about what is the definition of an impeachable offense and the White House was invited to the Wednesday hearing right the president his lawyers but White House counsel Pat simple and said on Sunday the administration isn't going to go why not they say that the proceedings are baseless and partisan the White House counsel says the president on attend the hearings of course he'll be at the NATO meeting and simple only the council won't either at least on Wednesday the White House it sounds like you're saying the White House hasn't entirely ruled out participating in the future if this keeps going correct right they have not necessarily ruled out participating in the future the chairman of the Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler has asked the White House to let him know by the close of business. As this Friday if they will participate at all if they want to present evidence or call witnesses remember the president has been complaining that he hasn't had a chance to send his lawyers up to the Hill to represent him but at the same time the White House has been saying that the whole process is a sham and they might not want to participate at all because that would legitimize the process does that mean the White House is like giving up its right to question witnesses during the whole phase of this process or is that something that the White House might still want to do well we'll know by Friday if they're giving up their right for the whole process. How are Republicans how are the president's allies going to approach this week's hearing Well there have been a lot of complaining about the process being unfair even though there were Republicans in every intelligence committee hearing and they did question witnesses but one of the things that Republicans on the Judiciary Committee want is the opportunity to request witnesses of course the chair of the committee has to sign off on whoever they want to call they want to call in particular the ranking member of the chairman of the Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff the argument is he led the investigation he wrote the report he's kind of like a special counsel like Ken Starr who investigated President Clinton and then testified before Congress when it was considering whether or not to impeach Clinton here is what Doug Collins who Judiciary Committee ranking member said on Fox News Sunday Adam Schiff is author of the support Adam Schiff has been the author of many things lot and found to be false over the past couple years but he's only the author of this report he's compared himself in the past to a special counsel this is what he said he was doing well if we go back to Clinton and and they might mix but in Clinton Ken Starr was a special counsel he presented a report that we're going to get his judiciary he actually came to set and testify under oath and took questions from all sides including the White House Ok the argument for calling Adam Schiff Mara in the in the 30 seconds we have left we have a sense of the timeline here no. We don't a lot of Democrats wanted this whole thing to be finished by Christmas but it's possible it could go longer possible could go longer N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson Mar thanks so much thank you when and how to regulate guns is one of the biggest issues across this country but the Supreme Court has rarely weighed in in 2008 it ruled for the 1st time that the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right 2 years later the court said that right apply to state laws not just federal laws regulating gun ownership in years since then however there has been radio silence as the justices have turned away one after another challenge to gun laws across the country until now as n.p.r. Legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports the case before the court today comes from New York a city and state with some of the toughest gun regulations in the country several gun owners challenge the rules for having a handgun at home they contended the city gun license was so restrictive it was unconstitutional Specifically they said the state law and city regulations violated the right to bear arms because they forbid pistol owners from carrying their guns anywhere other than 7 firing ranges within the city limits that meant that pistol owners could not carry their guns to a 2nd home or to shooting ranges or competitions in other states nearby the lower courts upheld the regulations as justified to protect safety in the most densely populated city in the country but when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the gun owners appeal the state and the city changed the law to allow handgun owners to transport their locked and unloaded guns to 2nd homes or shooting ranges outside the city with those changes the 1st question today will be whether the case is moot and should be thrown out because New York has already given the gun owners everything they asked for in their lawsuit James Johnson is counsel for the city of New York and this is an instance where it appears the petitioners most. Yes for an answer lawyer Paul Clement representing the gun owners counters that the amended regulations still give the city too much power to regulate the City of New York never expressed any doubt about the constitutionality of these regulations when they were winning in the district court in the Court of Appeals and then lo and behold all of the sudden the city decides you know maybe we don't need these regulations after all and he observes the city is still defending the original regulations the city is indeed doing that because the justices refused in October to throw the case out on mootness grounds opting instead to hear the mootness arguments today along with a direct challenge to the regulations themselves that does put the city in a weird position defending regulations that are no longer in place and that it claims it has no intention of reviving again New York's lawyer James Johnson It's our position that justifiably restricting the ability to carry broadly on the streets of New York City contributes to making the city safe and there's the rub what did the Supreme Court mean in its 2008 decision when it said the right to bear arms is an individual right Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the 5 Justice Court majority back then described it as the right to own a gun for self defense in one's home Moreover the opinion contained a paragraph of specific qualifiers that according to court sources were added to Scalia's opinion at the insistence of Justice Anthony Kennedy who provided the 5th vote needed to prevail in the case the court said for instance that its opinion cast no doubt on longstanding bans on carrying firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings or bans on dangerous and unusual weapons but Kennedy who insisted on that limiting language has now retired replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and kavanah as a lower court judge. Wrote expansively about gun rights I do think it will make a difference that justice Kavanagh is on the court the gun owners Paul Clement notes that not only does Cavanagh have a record sympathetic to broad gun rights but he was constrained by the court's precedents when he sat on the lower court now he can interpret the Constitution in a different way in his new perch he somebody who I would think is going to be receptive to arguments that the 2nd Amendment fully protection individual right and it's not strictly limited to the home New York argues that the history of gun ownership dating back to colonial times shows that in this densely populated city the law forbids the discharge of firearms in any street lane alley garden or other places where people frequently walk and by 1784 the state regulated the storage and transport of gunpowder today the city notes New York is the most densely populated city in the country Manhattan alone packs around $1600000.00 residents into 23 square miles and the population doubles every weekday with commuters these people plus tens of thousands of tourists move through the city's crowded streets thus creating a staggering concentration of sensitive places such as schools daycare centers government buildings playgrounds and places of worship all places that the Supreme Court said in 2008 are legitimate places to ban guns countering that argument lawyer Clement maintains that the Founding Fathers never intended the right to own a gun to be limited to the home at the very minimum he notes our founders allowed gun owners to carry their firearms from one place to another like any good advocate Clamantis offering the justices alternative routes to a gun friendly ruling they could say the 2nd Amendment is not limited strictly to the home and therefore this regulation has to go the alternative and broader ruling he says would treat the right to own a gun in the same way that limits on free. Speech are treated with considerable suspicion I don't think anybody would think that if the city of New York said you know we have 7 perfectly nice libraries in the city of New York and there's really no reason for any of you to go to libraries in New Jersey I think everybody would recognize know that that's clearly a 1st Amendment problem New York's lawyer James Johnson dismisses that analogy noting that libraries have no lethality but both sides know that if the Supreme Court rules on the merits of the now defunct regulations it will be a very big deal for one simple reason it will be only the 3rd decision on gun rights in modern times and it will inevitably lay down some new guidelines for lower courts to follow when gun regulations are challenged Nina Totenberg n.p.r. News Washington. 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