And she were do not come to an increment senators can still try to call witnesses once the trial has begun those requests would be subject to a simple majority vote Kelsey smell n.p.r. News Washington the House vote in favor of impeachment is in little doubt but the Senate trial is widely expected to go the other way that s because in the g.o.p. Controlled Senate many lawmakers say they ve already seen all the evidence they need to make up their minds whether in an interview with N.P.R. s All Things Considered today Maine Senator Susan Collins says she won t be project prejudging the case I have not bait up my mind and I think of would be inappropriate for me to have made up my mind before I hear the presentations from both sides Collins is a moderate Republican one of a closely watched few who have broken ranks on key votes in the past in a blistering letter to House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi today drunk and damn the impeachment process calling it a perversion of justice and abuse
18 primary a conservative group brought suit and a state trial judge agreed that state law required deactivation within 30 days but in subsequent review the commission deadlocked along party lines preventing the purge from going into effect the case is expected to end up at the Wisconsin Supreme Court with its 52 conservative majority for n.p.r. News I m my own silver in Milwaukee advocates for the homeless are cheering the Supreme Court s decision not to hear a case in an appeal by the city of Boise Idaho it could challenge the city s ticketing of homeless people for sleeping outside even when there were no shelter beds available N.P.R. s Kirk Siegler reports major West Coast cities was soaring homeless populations had back Boise and its petition the Supreme Court s denial upholds a lower court ruling that put severe limits on cities ability to enforce anti camping ordinances on streets and in public right of ways Los Angeles attorney Theon a evangelists is representing Boise in the
Washington I mean he held the House Rules Committee is today setting the parameters for how much time each side gets to debate in the upcoming impeachment vote the rules committee is typically the last stop before a vote in the full House if the House votes to impeach the Senate will hold a trial in the New Year and N.P.R. s Kelsey Snell reports Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting Democrats request call witnesses calling it a strange request the majority leader is denying a request from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer to reach an agreement on witnesses McConnell says it s not the Senate s job to build a case against the president that also shows his road it s their duty to investigate is their duty to made the very high bar for undoing a national election in a letter sent Sunday Schumer asked McConnell to agree to call for administration officials including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney even if McConnell
$45.00 days in jail which can be served on weekends and 3 years of probation Jackson said in closing that she was certain the criminal justice system is not going to see Gates again Ryan look at n.p.r. News Washington in Jersey City New Jersey today hundreds of mourners came out for the funeral of a police detective killed last week in connection with an attack on a kosher market that left 5 others debt and P.R. s Jeff Brady reports police from around the region lined the streets to pay their respects in the cold rain a procession led by officers on motorcycles lights flashing escorted detective Joseph seals cough and from the funeral home to St. World as the sheriff in Bucks County Pennsylvania he looked down the street to describe the scene blocks beyond what I can possibly see but officers easily in the thousands honor guards a couple 100 different honor guards from different apartments detective Joseph SEALs was 40 years old and a father of 5 praised for his work removing guns fro
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