Interviews with political figures and news updates. Interviews with political figures and news updates. The jury that there is a third option, there is guilt, there is not guilty, and there is a hung jury. The judge declined to do that and said that if the jury were to come back again and say they remain deadlocked, the judge will ask them how many counts theyve reached a verdict on. Hell then consult with the lawyers and decide whether or not to take whats called a partial verdict which means to have the jury announce those counts to which theyve reached unanimous agreement. Now, correct me if im wrong, the trials that ive covered in the past, dan, and youre the lawyer and former prosecutor, a judge will only repeat that allen charge so many times, or else risk, you know, being overturned on appeal if it ends up being a conviction, that east putting too much pressure on a deadlocked jury. Youre exactly right, andrea. Even the judge mentioned that his objective was not to be coercive t
giving states the role rather than the federal government over pollution, when pollution doesn t observe state boundaries. that s exactly right. but it s what the powerful industry wants, because they know regulation will be less effective, then they can go to the state governments, lobby the state governments, make their influence felt there. so what i did is i put together a bill that s not about campaign finance reform. campaign finance reform is powerfully important, and we need to make changes, we need to overturn citizens united. but even if we did that tomorrow, there would still be a huge problem in washington for the influence of money, the influence of the wealthy and the well-connected. so what i did is put together a bill that tries to go straight at the pieces of that, that goes after lobbying, that goes after the capture of our regulatory