WASHINGTON — If a Supreme Court vacancy emerges next year, Mitch McConnell will fill it, the Senate majority leader said Tuesday.
The comment, however, diverges from his decision in 2016 to not consider President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia earlier that year.
At a chamber luncheon in Paducah, Kentucky, on Tuesday, McConnell was asked by a member of the audience, “Should a Supreme Court justice die next year, what will your position be on filling that spot?”
“I would fill it,” he responded, smirking, which drew loud laughter.
McConnell said that while the 2017 GOP tax cuts could be repealed by future Congresses, judicial confirmations are more permanent.
“What can’t be undone is a lifetime appointment,” McConnell said. “That’s the most important thing that we have done for the country, which cannot be undone.”
The majority leader said earlier that the biggest decision he had made in his Senate career was his choice not to consider Garland’s nomination.
“I made the call in 2016 that we would not fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Scalia in the last year of the previous administration, a decision of enormous consequences,” he said. “You may have recalled the level of controversy that it produced. I thought I was on pretty firm ground because if I knew the shoe had been on the other foot, the guys on the other side would have done the same thing. That provided an opportunity for the American people to speak up about who they wanted to make that decision.”
In a tweet Tuesday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called McConnell a hypocrite.
Shortly after Obama nominated Garland in March 2016, McConnell said on the Senate floor, “The American people may well elect a president who decides to nominate Judge Garland for Senate consideration. The next president may also nominate someone very different. Either way, our view is this: Give the people a voice in the filling of this vacancy.”
He then told Garland that afternoon by phone that the Senate would not consider his nomination. McConnell consistently cited the so-called “Biden Rule,” an informal understanding that a president should not be able to name a judge to the Supreme Court during an election year. McConnell and then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, would not even allow a hearing on Garland’s nomination. The bet paid off when Trump was elected and was able to nominate conservative Neil Gorsuch to the court.
Asked for a comment Tuesday night, McConnell spokesman David Popp referred NBC News to an interview the majority leader did with Fox News in October 2018 and said “it’s not a reversal” because “2020 (would not) be the same as 2016.”
In that interview, host Chris Wallace asked McConnell what he would do if Trump were to name someone to the Supreme Court in the final year of his first term in 2020.
“Well, I understand your question of what I told you is what the history of the Senate has been. You have to go back to 1880 to find the last time a vacancy created in a presidential election year on the Supreme Court was confirmed by a Senate of a different party than the president,” McConnell said.
McConnell has conveyed this reasoning several times — the decision not to consider Garland’s nomination was because the Senate was held by a different party than the president leading into an election. His answer Tuesday is consistent with that claim.
Since Trump became president, the Senate has confirmed two justices to the Supreme Court — Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 — both of whom are considered conservative. Republicans were able to confirm the two nominees after they triggered the nuclear option in 2017, lowering the vote threshold so that a Supreme Court pick could be confirmed by the Senate with a simple majority rather than facing the previous 60-vote threshold.
There are several justices on the Supreme Court who have served for several decades. Justice Stephen Breyer is 80 years old and has served since 1994. Justice Clarence Thomas is 70 and has served since 1991, the longest-serving justice currently on the court. And Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 86, has served since 1993 and has suffered a series of health-related issues, including recently when she underwent surgery for lung cancer. She returned to the court in February.
Rebecca Shabad is a congressional reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.
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Las calles se inundaron en la isla de San Martín, que forma parte de los territorios de Francia en ultramar.
Irma es el segundo huracán más fuerte registrado en el océano Atlántico.
De categoría 5, la máxima en la escala Saffir-Simpson, Irma golpea desde este miércoles el Caribe con rachas de vientos que alcanzan los 295 km/h. Tras alcanzar Puerto Rico, el huracán continuará en dirección hacia República Dominicana, Cuba, Bahamas y el sur de Florida.
A su paso por las islas de Anguila, Antigua, Barbuda, San Bartolomé y San Martín, la tormenta causó enormes destrozos incluyendo inundaciones, daños severos a edificaciones sólidas y causando interrupciones en las comunicaciones.
BBC Mundo muestra algunas de las imágenes que registran el impacto de este fenómeno meteorológico.
La Gran Época le presenta un resumen de las últimas noticias del mundo. En primer lugar los dos aspirantes a la Casa Blanca, emitieron sus votos el día de hoy acompañados de sus cónyuges, pero solo uno de ellos se convertirá en horas en el próximo presidente de los Estados Unidos. Por otro lado, allanan oficinas de Samsung en Corea del Sur en relación con escándalo político que involucra a la presidenta. Entretanto, 1,8 millones de electores pueden concurrir hoy a las urnas para elegir a un nuevo gobernador y a los miembros de la Asamblea Legislativa portorriqueña y –por último- Youtube y Google se prepararon para brindar los resultados en el tiempo real.
Trump y Clinton emitieron sus votos
El candidato presidencial Donald Trump y su esposa emitieron este martes su voto, luego de que Trump descalificara las encuestas que lo ubican por debajo de su rival Hillary Clinton en la carrera por la Casa Blanca.
Luego de emitir su voto en la casilla de la zona media de Manhattan que le corresponde, Trump y su esposa Melania, ofrecieron unos dólares a las personas que vendían productos horneados al lado de la casilla de votación.
“Muy bien, todo va muy bien. Va muy bien, en general”, respondió Trump en relación a las votaciones.
Momentos antes, en una entrevista en el canal de televisión Fox News, Trump había descalificado las encuestas que lo colocan, por debajo de Clinton, aunque por un margen estrecho que apenas supera los tres puntos porcentuales en promedio.“Pienso que sólo difunden números falsos. En serio lo creo. Luego de los debates, creo que mis números comenzaron a ir realmente bien”, afirmó.
(Foto: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Por su parte, esta mañana Hillary Clinton y su esposo Bill acudieron a un colegio en Nueva York para votar. “Lo haré lo mejor que pueda si tengo la fortuna de ganar hoy”, dijo la candidata en una entrevista. “Espero ganar. Hay mucha gente involucrada en esto y hay una gran responsabilidad en juego”.
Los Clinton votaron en la escuela Douglas G. Graffin, en Chappaqua en el condado de Westchester, que estaba colmado de curiosos y fotógrafos, quienes esperaron hasta que la pareja saliera del lugar. Sin preocuparles, la pareja se mostró afectuosa y saludó a los trabajadores y funcionarios presentes durante un poco más de diez minutos.
Allanan oficinas de Samsung en Corea del Sur en relación con escándalo político de la presidenta
El escándalo político que rodea a la presidenta de Corea del Sur, Park Geun-hye, involucró este lunes al gigante tecnológico Samsung, según reporto la BBC.
La fiscalía surcoreana allanó este lunes las oficinas de la compañía oriunda de ese país como parte de una investigación de corrupción a la mandataria.
Las autoridades investigan siSamsung le entregó dinero a la hija de Choi Soon-sil, amiga cercana de la presidenta.
Choi ha sido acusada de usar su amistad con la mandataria para inmiscuirse en asuntos de Estado y solicitar donaciones de empresas.
La presidenta Park se disculpó por sus lazos con Choi,pero se ha enfrentado en los últimos días a crecientes presiones que la han visto obligada a su dimisión.
La presidenta surcoreana, Park Geun-hye, (Presidencia de Corea via Getty Images)
En Puerto Rico también se está definiendo nuevo gobernador
1,8 millones de electores pueden concurrir hoy a las urnas para elegir a un nuevo gobernador y a los miembros de la Asamblea Legislativa portorriqueña.
Pese a la diversidad de candidatos (seis en total) las posibilidades de victoria se reducen al opositor Ricardo Rosselló, de 37 años, del Partido Nuevo Progresista e hijo del dos veces gobernador Pedro Rosselló al que favorecen las encuestas; y el oficialista David Bernier, de 39 años, del Partido Popular Democrático, a quien afecta el descalabro fiscal del gobierno de Alejandro García, del cual fue ministro de Estado.
Los portorriqueños, que elegirán a los integrantes de la Cámara de Representantes y del Senado de la isla, también escogerán hoy a los alcaldes de los 78 municipios, división geográfica del país, y los integrantes de sus respectivas legislaturas. Para algunos, se trata de comicios sin sentido porque el resquicio de gobierno propio de Puerto Rico se desvaneció a mediados de este año cuando Washington impuso una junta de control fiscal de siete miembros, designados por el Congreso federal, luego de aprobar la legislación Promesa, en conjunto con la Casa Blanca, informó Prensa Latina.
Ricardo Rosselló, el candidato favorito de Puerto Rico (Foto: Wikimedia Commons)
Google y YouTube trasmitirán en vivo las elecciones de Estados Unidos
Google sabe del enorme interés del mundo por este evento y de hecho menciona que son las elecciones presidenciales del país más buscadas por los latinos en su motor desde el 2004, por lo que ya preparan su arsenal para la enorme cobertura que tendrán.
Google tendrá a disposición de las personas toda la información y estadísticas de las diversas elecciones incluyendo senadores, congreso y gobernación.
En conjunto a Associated Press también tendrán todas las propuestas y referendums de los candidatos, así como refinar las búsquedas en su aplicación móvil.
Por su parte YouTube también se prepara para el enorme despliegue de transmisiones en vivo de los múltiples noticieros, los que arrancarán sus transmisiones desde las 7 PM (hora del este) a través de NBC, PBS, MTV, Bloomberg y Telemundo.
Por lo que se puede saber hasta el momento, los resultados van muy parejos entre ambos candidatos.
Giuliani met with multiple Ukrainian officials as he continued his effort to counter House Democrats’ impeachment probe and paint an investigation into the Bidens as a matter critical to the relationship between the two countries.
Giuliani has been a central figure in House Democrats’ investigation into Trump’s conduct. He is also reportedly the subject of an ongoing investigation in the Southern District of New York.
Photos posted on social media show Giuliani met during the week with a former Ukrainian diplomat who has propagated an unsubstantiated theory that Ukraine meddled to help Democrats in the 2016 election. He also huddled with a Ukrainian lawmaker who proposed a joint corruption investigation between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Giuliani tweeted Thursday that an investigation into Biden’s conduct has not been resolved and until it is will be a major obstacle to the US assisting Ukraine with its anti-corruption reforms.”
Trump has defended Giuliani in recent weeks when the former New York City mayor has come up in impeachment proceedings, hailing him as a great crime-fighter who cares about corruption.
But the president sought some distance when he denied late last month that he had directed Giuliani to go to Ukraine on his behalf.
A White House spokesman said Friday that, to his knowledge, Giuliani is still the president’s personal attorney, but it was unclear if Trump was aware of Giuliani’s latest activities in Ukraine.
“That’s a question between Rudy and the president,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said.
The New York Times first reported that Giuliani met in Budapest with former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko, who Democrats have accused of being part of a smear campaign to oust the former U.S. ambassador in Kyiv.
A crew from the conservative One America News Network (OAN) was also in tow to film Giuliani’s meetings as part of a counter-narrative to the impeachment hearings.
Giuliani could not be reached for comment, but his tweets posted throughout his trip gave a glimpse into his effort to dredge up damaging information about Trump’s political opponents.
“In reviewing my notes, it seems to me that a large-scale joint investigation into Ukraine and the US would uncover and recover billions stolen by crooks, from both countries, at the highest levels,” Giuliani tweeted Friday. “This would be the most effective way to bring our two countries together.”
The idea of a joint investigation appeared to stem from a meeting with Andriy Derkach, an independent Ukrainian lawmaker who previously served as a member of a pro-Russia party in parliament and as head of Ukrainian intelligence. He reportedly attended a KGB-affiliated high school in Moscow.
Derkach posted a photo of a meeting with Giuliani on Facebook. The two men can be seen holding a document up, and Derkach wrote that they discussed a joint commission to tackle corruption.
“Thank you @RudyGiuliani for your work and what you do for @realDonaldTrump, because we are fighting for the #TRUTH!” Telizhenko tweeted Friday with photos of himself and Giuliani. “You are a great friend of Ukraine and a Patriot of US. Hope to see you soon back in Kyiv.”
The meetings come as some Republican lawmakers have increasingly entertained the unfounded theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence committee concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
Giuliani’s trip came on the heels of a 300-page report from the House Intelligence Committee alleging that Trump made U.S. security aid and a White House meeting for Ukraine conditional on the country announcing investigations into Trump’s political rivals.
Government officials testified last month that it was Giuliani who was urging Ukraine to announce those investigations, and they alleged that the president’s personal attorney was conducting a shadow foreign policy outside of regular diplomatic channels.
Giuliani maintained that he was acting on behalf of his client and has insisted he will ultimately produce information that undercuts claims against Trump.
He was further drawn into the impeachment inquiry when the House Intelligence Committee obtained phone records that showed him in frequent contact with the White House on Aug. 8.
Giuliani and Trump have both downplayed the call records.
“You know, is that supposed to be a big deal?” Trump said when asked about the records during a NATO meeting. “I don’t think so. Rudy is a great gentleman, and they’re after him only because he’s done such a good job.”
But Trump’s allies have long been uneasy about Giuliani’s role, particularly given his propensity to make new revelations during television appearances.
Giuliani’s latest trip drew more skepticism from some in the GOP, even among Trump’s fiercest defenders.
Gaetz added that it would be “helpful” if the former mayor clarified the role he’s playing in Ukraine.
“But the Rudy Giuliani I know is the Rudy Giuliani who, like, fought the mob when it wasn’t a popular thing to do,” Gaetz said. “He’s someone who put his life on the line in 9/11, so if there’s anyone that ought to maybe get the benefit of the doubt, it would probably be Mayor Giuliani.”
It’s been barely a week since Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, and already the I-word is flying around Washington. “We’re going to impeach the motherfucker,” Rashida Tlaib declared jubilantly mere hours after being sworn in. Longtime members Brad Sherman and Al Green filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on the first day of the new session. And the president, for his part, is clearly spoiling for the fight, declaring in a Rose Garden news conference, “Well, you can’t impeach somebody that’s doing a great job.”
Now what?
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The Democrats could pass articles of impeachment tomorrow on a party line vote. As you may have noticed, they haven’t. The Sherman-Green impeachment measure was always seen as dead on arrival, and for political and practical reasons, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has no plans to change that anytime soon. But, with a boisterous and empowered Democratic majority now stalking the halls of Congress—one half of it, anyway—the impeachment question is now suddenly real in a way it hasn’t been since Trump was elected.
The progressive left, a key part of the Democrats’ base, isn’t likely to stop agitating. New York Times editorial writer David Leonhardt published a detailed, count-by-count bill of charges against Trump last Sunday that mentioned the I-word no less than 12 times. Billionaire activist Tom Steyer this week traveled to Iowa where he announced he would sink more money into his campaign to impeach Trump instead of mounting his own White House bid. Since the midterms, the question has gone from anti-Trumpist fantasy to practical gamesmanship—something being discussed in Capital Hill offices and hallways, at law firms and among party strategists and leaders.
In one sense, Trump is as vulnerable as he’s always been. In another, the risk is huge. The collision of anti-Trump forces with his powerfully loyal base—to say nothing of the president’s own thirst for conflict—would guarantee the most explosive political disruption in generations. If the effort misses, the blowback could easily propel Trump back into office in 2020, with a reinvigorated base bent on revenge.
“If they’re dumb enough to impeach him, they’re going to lose the House and he’s going to be reelected and there won’t be a Senate trial,” said Joseph diGenova, an informal Trump adviser and frequent Fox News pundit. “That’s what’s going to happen, and I hope they do it.”
So, what would an impeachment really take in the Washington of 2019, and how would it all go down? To answer these questions, POLITICO interviewed more than two dozen sources, including sitting Republican and Democratic senators and members of Congress, current and former Capitol Hill aides, political operatives, historians and legal experts. The story that follows is the most detailed accounting, anywhere, of what dominoes need to fall if House impeachment articles were really to move forward, how a Trump trial in the Senate would go down and what—if anything—might break the Senate GOP majority apart enough to vote to remove their own president from office.
The picture won’t be consoling to anti-Trumpers who hope it will be easy, but neither will it reassure loyalists who see any attack on the president as off-limits.
Impeachment is rare, and every generation comes with its own set of complications, but with Trump there are parts you really can game out, from how the known details of his misbehavior might play to the bigger economic and political factors that would serve as impeachment’s backdrop. It’s also possible to work through the Senate Republican Conference vote by vote, with a likely breakdown of just where, and when, the necessary splits might start to occur. There are also wildly unpredictable elements, starting with just what special counsel Robert Mueller turns up in his investigation—and ending with a Senate proceeding that has many of the features of a courtroom trial, but that is also much looser, and could require far more, or far less, than a courtroom for conviction.
As you read this, remember: No president has ever actually been removed from office by impeachment. The House impeached Andrew Johnson on 11 different counts in 1868, angry about how Abraham Lincoln’s successor was handling reconstruction after the Civil War, but he ultimately avoided Senate conviction by one vote. More than a century later, Richard Nixon resigned from office rather than face impeachment; in late 1998, in a highly partisan vote, the House impeached Bill Clinton on two counts, but he didn’t come close to being removed by the Senate—a lesson in overreach not lost on today’s Congress. “If and when the time comes for impeachment—it will have to be something that has such a crescendo in a bipartisan way,” Pelosi, the decisive player in any potential move by Democrats to impeach Trump, told CBS in an interview that aired Sunday.
If Trump were really to be the first, here’s what to watch for as the dominoes fall. Welcome to the Only Impeachment Guide You’ll Ever Need.
I. The Mueller Factor
Nothing is hanging over Trump’s head like the investigation into whether his 2016 campaign conspired with Russia to win the White House. Mueller, legendary as one of the most ambitious, aggressive and methodical directors ever to lead the FBI, is perhaps the most widely respected investigator in America. And since he’s a lifelong Republican, only the most die-hard wing of the Trump base can dismiss his work as the kind of partisan-driven overreach that discredited the investigation into Bill Clinton.
Mueller was appointed under a different set of rules than Clinton investigator Kenneth Starr, and this time there is no requirement that he deliver a detailed report to Congress. (Starr’s report in 1998 nearlybroke the earliest iterations of the internet, with some 20 million Americans logging on to read his graphic account of the president’s sexual trysts with a White House intern.)Mueller needs to send his findings only to his Justice Department supervisor, although the expectations are high that Congress will ultimately get its hand on some version of that document, and that its details will make their way to the public.
So far, Mueller has cut a wide swath through Trumpworld, securing guilty pleas from Trump’s former national security adviser; his longtime personal lawyer; and the chairman who helped run his 2016 presidential campaign, along with his deputy. Federal prosecutors working with Mueller have also implicated Trump in a set of campaign finance crimes, and the president has posted tweets and made public statements that many legal experts say could be used to charge him with obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
Any of those scandals, on their own, might have brought down a president in the past. With Trump, none has moved Congress any closer to impeachment. And despite the party handover in the House, they’re still not that close. So when Mueller does complete his work, his findings would need to include something genuinely big, and genuinely new—at least one or more pieces of irrefutable evidence that Trump has committed “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” the loosely defined grounds for impeachment spelled out in the Constitution.
In the case of Trump, the experts I spoke with said that for the Senate to actually move toward conviction—meaning at least 20 Republican senators voting to remove a Republican president—Trump would likely need to be incriminated for betraying the nation itself, not just for campaign violations, or improper behavior like paying hush money to porn stars.
What could rise to that level? Bear in mind that Trump has already faced accusations similar to those that brought Nixon down—he admitted on national television tofiring FBI Director James Comey to end the Russia investigation; and there’s plenty of evidence that he has tried to intimidate witnesses who could deliver incriminating evidence against him and lied to the public about his actions as part of a wider cover-up. Several sitting senators and members of the House, along with other close observers of Congress, told me Trump would need to face charges bigger and darker, and with the smoking-gun clarity of Nixon admitting to his schemes on tape.
For instance: actual documents showing that Trump himself knew his 2016 campaign was working in concert with Russia to win the White House, and signed off on the arrangement. Or a money-laundering scheme run through the Trump Organization on behalf of foreign governments or oligarchs, rendering the president susceptible to blackmail and extortion. If there’s hard evidence that those foreign powers shaped his policies while president, that could seal the deal even for some Republicans.
Whether Mueller’s investigation will uncover anything like this remains the most addictive guessing game in Washington. The special counsel has been on the job for nearly 20 months, and has so far shown himself to be a by-the-book operator, which cuts two ways: He won’t be scared off a scent, but it’s unclear how far he’ll stray from the original mission. Remember that the investigation that led to Clinton’s impeachment started with a 15-year-old real estate deal, but the impeachment charges themselves came from a long side investigation into whether the president obstructed justice and lied under oath about his affair with the White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
Mueller has yet to reveal any public threads of a conspiracy directly connecting Russia and Trump’s campaign, though attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort earlier this week disclosed an intriguing detail that raises new questions about collusion: Their client shared polling data during Trump’s 2016 race with a Ukrainian associate who has ties to Russian intelligence.
Even the Republicans I spoke with acknowledged that serious revelations about the president that aren’t yet in the public domain would be hard for their party to defend. “I think a lot of people would shift if the president clearly illegally evaded taxes the way his father did, or that he is beholden to a foreign government,” said Rick Tyler, a Republican operative who has worked for Newt Gingrich and Ted Cruz, and has been an outspoken advocate of the Never-Trump camp even as his former bosses contorted themselves into presidential allies.
If the president is actually indicted for a crime, that obviously changes everything.”
John Cornyn of Texas, a senior member of the Senate GOP leadership whose job until January involved whipping votes in the upper chamber, said the Senate was far from likely to support removing a sitting president and called the act of impeachment “basically a futile gesture.”
But pressed on whether the special counsel’s investigators could uncover anything that would alter those Senate dynamics, Cornyn replied, “If the president is actually indicted for a crime, that obviously changes everything. But right now all I see is speculation and people who have no knowledge of what Director Mueller actually has speculating on what could happen. I don’t think that’s particularly productive. It may be interesting, but it’s not based on facts.”
Mueller may not be only important source of fresh evidence. There are the federal prosecutors in New York who convicted Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney, and with whom Cohen continues to cooperate. There’s the newly elected Democratic attorney general in New York, who campaigned on a pledge to investigate Trump’s finances, businesses and charitable foundation. And there are the House Democrats, whose newly won congressional subpoena power could be a game-changer. They plan to launch a slew of investigations in 2019, including a re-examination of Trump campaign ties to Russia; allegations of money laundering between the Trump Organization and foreign interests; and whether Trump as president has personally enriched himself in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause. House Democrats also are planning a careful push to make the president’s personal tax returns public.
Trump could dig himself in deeper, as well. Though he’s restrained himself from ending the Mueller probe, I spoke to one senior Republican official in touch with the White House who predicted Trump’s reaction could cause the president problems if the Russia investigation turned personal and Trump’s closest family members—his son Donald Trump Jr., daughter Ivanka Trump or her husband, Jared Kushner—faced criminal charges. “Everyone knows he surrounds himself with dirtbags and weak people and psychopaths,” said the official. “But the family is the family and that’s a lot closer to Trump than anything else.” That’s the situation where Trump might overreact, issuing blanket pardons or ordering up a Nixon-like Saturday Night Massacre, firing Mueller and the senior ranks of his own Justice Department.
“To me, that’s the red line,” said the official. “If that gets crossed, then everything changes in both parties.”
II. The Big Picture
Though Americans tend to think about impeachment as a legal proceeding, it’s far more a political matter than a legal one: The Constitution’s vague language leaves it up to congressional interpretation by design. Political scholars and D.C. insiders agree that impeachment simply won’t happen unless a sitting president looks politically vulnerable. A sudden downward turn in a couple of important barometers will go a long way toward determining whether Trump’s core supporters across the country—and their elected representatives—would actually abandon him.
This means, first and foremost, the economy. A president sitting on a booming economy is likely to be reelected, and a president likely to be reelected sits in a political castle that his own party would never storm. But a shaky economy—or, worse, a serious downturn—makes even a celebrity president with a die-hard base look vulnerable.
Nixon’s resignation came on the heels of not just a spiraling scandal, but a crash in the global stock market, an international oil crisis and a recession on the domestic home front that would have cast a pall on his administration even without Watergate. Clinton, president during a years-long growth spurt, survived an impeachment attempt easily.
Trump, over the past two years, has governed through an economic roller coaster, with about 4 million new jobs created and rising wages but fears of a recession and global economic decline never far from the surface. In just the past month, stock prices have taken record turns in both directions, while a government shutdown reaches historic lengths with no end in sight.
Politically, ousting Trump would require the same kind of seismic wave he successfully surfed during his 2016 campaign—nothing less, in fact, than another shakeup and realignment of the Republican Party. A pair of data points will help tell the story here. First, there’s Trump’s overall public approval ratings, which have been at historic lows throughout his presidency. The Real Clear Politics’ average currently has Trump at around 42 percent. His floor to date: 37 percent, in mid-December 2017. “Nothing’s going to change until he hits 30,” said Jim Manley, a former Senate operative who worked for former Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
But perhaps an even more important indicator on the impeachment front is Trump’s standing among likely GOP primary voters. The latest Gallup tracker shows the president holding an 89 percent approval among Republicans, the very same number he enjoyed right after he was sworn into office in January 2017. As long as figures like that don’t slide dramatically—and Republicans haven’t budged in their support despite nearly two years of White House turmoil—Trump is probably safe from seeing his own party toss him under the bus.
For Trump to be meaningfully vulnerable, Republicans in a handful of states would need to start seeing polling data that show their support for him could sink their own political futures, including in key purple state battlegrounds like Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina. In Trump’s case, there’s another, unique indicator: if he starts to lose Fox hosts like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.
III. The House
Impeachment starts in the House, where any member can introduce a resolution seeking to remove the president. Though it’s not technically a bill, it would work much the same way—with majority votes required in committee and on the floor.
But nothing will move, officially, until it gets a green light from Democratic leadership—which means the real power for determining what happens on the impeachment front rests with Pelosi. No stranger to hardball politics, Pelosi sees impeachment as a nuclear bomb that she’d rather not have to detonate unless and until the time is right. In the meantime, she’d like to get some potential policy wins under her belt, and so the California Democrat has spent the better part of the past year pleading with her party to remain patient in any bid to remove Trump until a more complete picture has emerged spelling out the evidence of any presidential illegalities.
While Pelosi has the authority to create a special committee to consider impeachment, she’s signaled that the Judiciary Committee led by Rep. Jerry Nadler will serve as the primary venue for any hearings on the topic, and will handle any resolutions that are likely to move forward.
The institutional Democrats’ hesitation is rooted, in part, in the recent history from the Clinton era. If they fail, the damage could be enormous, both to the country and to their own party. Just as Clinton did, Trump could come out on the other side of an unsuccessful impeachment attempt with greater public sympathy and an improved prospect of winning reelection in 2020.
And House Democrats will need allies across the aisle, which also requires a cautious approach. The experts I spoke with said that without some Republican votes, it would look far too much like a belated effort to overturn the 2016 election results—and would fail to provide the bipartisan cover that Senate Republicans would need to actually vote to convict the president later.
What’s the magic number? Elaine Kamarck, a longtime Democratic operative who worked in the Clinton White House and later on Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, estimates that Pelosi would need impeachment votes from about 20 Republicans, giving a total House vote of 255-179, assuming the Democrats hold together and vote as a bloc (with one seat still vacant in North Carolina). Donald Ritchie, the retired Senate historian who helped the chamber navigate Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, said the target should actually be higher—much, much higher.
“If there’s any chance of getting two-thirds [of Senators] removing the president, you’d have to have two-thirds of the House of Representatives voting to impeach,” or closer to 100 House Republicans, with a vote of 335-99, he said. “Anything less than that, and I don’t think it would fly in the Senate.”
IV: The Senate
This is where the impeachment fight gets real. Like both Andrew Johnson and Clinton before him, Trump would still be president even if the House voted to impeach him. Trump’s fate actually rests with what happens in the Senate, where, pending a trial, a two-thirds majority vote is needed to remove a president from office.
That’s a threshold that’s never been met in the 229 years since George Washington took the first oath of office. And it’s the reason Clinton’s impeachment was more of a partisan backfire than a politically destabilizing event: Nobody believed the Senate would actually vote to convict him.Republicans held a 55-45 majority over the Democrats in 1999, andthe anti-Clinton forces needed to capture a dozen votes from the president’s own party. Not only did they net zero, they didn’t even hold onto all the Republican votes. Clinton emerged from his impeachment battle with the best public approval ratings of his presidency, and his final Gallup numbers were the highest for any outgoing president measured since the end of World War II.
As in the House, Trump’s presidency would hinge on what happens with Republicans. The math is simple: If the Democrats can secure all 47 votes in their caucus, they’d need 20 Republicans to secure a conviction. To feel comfortable moving forward with impeachment proceedings at all, they’d need to get signals from maybe half that number.
Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian from Rice University, said that even a Senate trial fueled by serious charges against Trump won’t be seen as a real threat to his presidency unless a sizable number of Republicans step forward early. “It’s got to hit the 10 mark to be eye-opening,” he said. “Then, you are 10 away.”
Long before the case hits the Senate floor, there will be plenty of time for the Republicans to consider the evidence and send those signals. “Remember, you’re going to have a lot of time while the House actually figures out what the articles of impeachment are supposed to be,” Kamarck said. “During that time I think you’ll see the Senate reacting or holding their cards tight. You’ll know pretty early who the ringleaders are in the Senate, if there are any.”
In Washington, the parlor game has begun: As the Mueller probe keeps drilling closer to the president, the 53 Republicans’ records and statements are being scrutinized for any signs of who potentially would ever break with Trump.
The first group of possible defectors is fairly obvious. You might call them “establishment figureheads”—lions of the pre-Trump GOP who have been uneasy with the president’s character, disagree with him on policy, and might be looking for a way to decisively detach their distinguished careers from his name.
This group starts with Mitt Romney, the freshman from Utah who marked his arrival in the Senate with a blistering op-ed attacking the president as unfit for office. It also includes Pat Roberts of Kansas and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, two senior Republicans who have announced they won’t be running for reelection in 2020, freeing them to think more about history than their political futures. There’s also Richard Burr of North Carolina, who as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has led his chamber’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and seen much of the still-classified evidence firsthand.
Other Republican senators who could be in the first group to peel off are Ben Sasse, the first-term Nebraskan who refused to vote for Trump in 2016 and even compared his party’s nominee to the white supremacist David Duke; and Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska senator who has already defied Trump by not voting to confirm his most recent Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
If those senators were to abandon Trump—and there’s no guarantee that even with their significant personal and policy differences they will—that gives a tentative count of six Republican defectors, and 47 still in Trump’s camp.
To get to the 10 required for a realistic Senate trial, another group would need to come into play—the “vulnerable 2020 class.” These are the handful of incumbents from swing states who are up for reelection in less than two years, and who could easily lose their seats if enough of their home-state Republican voters turned against the president.
This group consists of five: Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Martha McSally of Arizona and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. They’re genuinely caught in a political vise: A vote against Trump could kill their chances if it comes before they’ve faced their own primary voters, but a vote to save the president could torpedo them in the general election. For these senators, Trump’s approval among the primary electorate is a key indicator, as is the exact timing for when they’d be forced to take any vote for conviction.
The next category would be the Republican senators who won’t face voters again until 2022 or ’24—let’s call them “anxious incumbents.” Not all of the GOP senators in those election cycles are likely to peel away from Trump, but some could: Mike Braun of Indiana, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Mike Lee of Utah, Rob Portman of Ohio, Rick Scott of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina and John Thune of South Dakota.
That now makes 23 senators who could be considered in play based on home-state politics, Trump’s popularity and staying power and a variety of other factors. If even half started to signal they’d consider impeachment charges, the debate would take on far more significance and likely trigger a last-stand defensive campaign from the president.
Scott Mulhauser, a former aide to Vice President Joe Biden, said he expects GOP senators would look for guidance to the likes of Vice President Mike Pence and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on what would likely be the most historic vote of their careers.
“To have this land in a real way, not only will the work of Mueller and his team of course have to be ironclad. But it will also have to be damning to the point where these guys have no choice,” he said. They also should anticipate a full-throated fight from Trump: “If it’s his future, the wrath is coming.”
V. The proceedings
Once any impeachment charges are before the Senate, there’s no guarantee here but one: It will be a hell of a show.
Republicans could disregard anything the House does and simply table the matter, which Trump allies say would be a viable position for GOP leaders to take. “If I’m McConnell, I say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to have an election in 2020. It will be the trial,” said diGenova, a former federal prosecutor who nearly joined the president’s legal team last year.
But public pressure leading into the next election cycle could also be hard to ignore. “If the House acted, I don’t think the Senate could not act,” said Ritchie, the historian emeritus of the Senate.
If there is a trial, all 100 senators would be serving as Trump’s jury, meeting in a solemn courtroom-like atmosphere where they’d be asked to sift through reams of evidence and, potentially, live witnesses. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts would preside, while House Democrats would serve as the president’s prosecutors, and Trump’s attorneys as his defense counsel. Rudy Giuliani vs. Jerry Nadler, anyone?
To convict, the Senate needs to get to 67 votes. Depending on the signals we’ve seen from that first group of senators, that means about a dozen or more additional Republicans would have to brave Trump’s rhetoric, which will no doubt be escalating as he digs in, and also flipping on the leader of their own party.
Who else could Trump lose? Once truly damning evidence started coming out, the president would need to watch his back for another group, aptly dubbed “his former political foes”: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham and even McConnell. All have accommodated themselves to the president in the interest of power. But none are likely to have forgotten Trump’s mean tweets, nasty nicknames and otherpersonal, out-of-the-norm attacks on their appearance, family, and more. Any or all of these could see a vote for his conviction as the ultimate payback. They might even take a special relish in watching the whip count nudge up to 66 and then casting the decisive vote.
“The question is: Do any of these people feel they owe Donald Trump anything?” said Kamarck. “I think it will get very personal. It will devolve on a personal level. What you have to ask yourself is, who has Donald Trump gone out of his way to be a total, utter asshole to?”
I think it will get very personal. It will devolve on a personal level. What you have to ask yourself is, who has Donald Trump gone out of his way to be a total, utter asshole to?”
Beyond golfing with a couple of Republicans, Trump has built few of the personal relationships that might help save him in the Senate. “You should hear the way these guys talk about him behind his back,” Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democratic senator who lost her reelection bid in 2018, told The New Yorker Radio Hour when asked whether Republicans were really loyal to Trump.
Roger Stone, the longtime Trump political adviser, told me that this—the president’s lack of Senate friends—rather than the substance of the impeachment articles, could be a problem if impeachment proceedings did actually kick into gear.
“I don’t see a real charge that’s problematic,” Stone said. “On the other hand, most of the Senate Republicans are establishment Republican, country club, neocon types. I don’t think Donald Trump is terribly popular with them to begin with.”
Interviewed on the record, Republican senators right now have one consistent message on impeachment: We know nothing. “I think we’ve got to let this process continue and we’ve got to allow the facts go to where they will and not have any political interference,” Rob Portman said; John Thune, the new Republican Senate whip in 2019, also demurred: “I think we just don’t have the full picture yet.” Ron Johnson said of an impeachment: “If that were to occur, you’re acting as a juror in a trial, and you need to take a look at all the evidence. That’s how I’d approach it.”
As for Senate Democrats, they plan to work their own individual relationships across the aisle to size up what’s possible. “I think all of us will be having conversations just as we’ve been discussing the investigation and protecting it,” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal told me. They’d be reporting what they hear from Republicans up the chain to party leaders Pelosi and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who’d be in charge of counting votes. “Park yourselves on the sidelines,” explained Illinois’ Dick Durbin, who as the Senate Democratic whip would also have a big role to play ahead of a conviction trial, told ABC’s “This Week” in December when asked about the president’s legal and political liabilities.
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To be sure, many observers still don’t see any way that 20 Senate Republicans and a corresponding number of House Republicans would ever risk their own political futures abandoning Trump absent something jarring—something that to date Mueller or other investigators have yet to produce.
“They’re going to have to really have a smoking fucking gun to show this is a bipartisan exercise,” said Sam Geduldig, a former House GOP leadership aide. “There are not a lot of Republicans who’d want on their tombstone: ‘Impeached President Trump.’”
“Renaming a post office is one thing. To have them do substantive work on a controversial issue and have 67 agree is virtually unheard of,” explained Mulhauser, who also has worked for several Senate Democrats.
There are of course many other possible scenarios for Trump beyond impeachment. Neal Katyal, the former acting Obama solicitor general, suggested last month that the president already faces enough legal jeopardy once he’s out of office that his attorneys may want to consider negotiating a deal with prosecutors to resign rather than face jail time when his term is up.
Democrats have other political calculations to keep in mind, too, including their chances of winning back the White House in 2020. If they succeed in impeaching Trump in the House and somehow convicting him in the Senate, they’d need to draw up an entirely new general election playbook for going up against a different Republican, presumably a President Mike Pence.
“You don’t want the Republican Party reinventing itself post-Trump” if you’re the Democrats, said Brinkley, the presidential historian. “The longer Trump is in legal limbo, the more of this sort of drip-drip about Russian collusion and the financial dealings, the longer it goes on, the better for the Democrats.”
But if an impeachment process starts and fails, Trump could effectively use the fight to his electoral advantage. Democrats would also need to consider their own election prospects in the House and Senate in 2020 if Trump is still at the top of the ticket, only more popular because he’s withstood his opponents’ assault. It may be that impeachment—as much as it excites some of the Democratic base—is in nobody’s immediate political interest at all.
“That’s the problem with an impeachment strategy,” Brinkley added. “The Democratic Party is better off running against a deeply damaged President Trump that seems to have a lot of terrible legal woes and ethical damage. It’s better off to run against a wounded Trump than to drive Trump out of office.”
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En las noticias más leídas del día, el líder norcoreano, Kim Jong-Un, supervisó el lanzamiento de un nuevo misil balístico de medio alcance, indicó la agencia oficial KCNA, que agregó que Kim “aprobó el despliegue de este sistema de armamento para la acción”. Mientras tanto en otros temas, el secretario de Economía, Ildefonso Guajardo, y sus homólogos de los demás países miembros del TPP discuten un plan de acción para el acuerdo, en el marco de la reunión de APEC.
1. Corea del Norte presume un nuevo lanzamiento de misil
Este lunes, Corea del Norte confirmó un lanzamiento “exitoso” de un misil balístico de medio alcance, informó la agencia estatal de Pyongyang, que agregó que el armamento está listo para ser utilizado.
Kim Jong-Un, líder norcoreano, supervisó el lanzamiento, indicó la agencia oficial KCNA, que agregó que Kim “aprobó el despliegue de este sistema de armamento para la acción”.
Además la agencia agregó que el misil es del tipo Pukguksong-2, que utiliza combustible sólido, lo que acorta considerablemente el tiempo de abastecimiento comparado con los misiles alimentados con combustible líquido.
Corea del Norte presume un nuevo lanzamiento de misil. Ver nota.
2. Colonias emergentes, opción para adquirir un inmueble
Para casi todas las personas el momento de buscar casa se vuelve algo complicado. Como cabeza de familia la prioridad es encontrar una colonia que cuente con los servicios públicos, escolares y de transporte que en conjunto cumplan con sus expectativas; asimismo, el precio es fundamental para establecerse en una ciudad.
Para estos casos, existen colonias que se encuentran alrededor de zonas muy atractivas como la colonia Condesa, Del Valle, Polanco o el Centro Histórico denominadas emergentes, que cumplen plenamente con los anteriores requisitos y se vuelven una opción latente para aquellas personas que buscan un inmueble. Así que si estás buscando casa para llevar a tu familia o comenzar una nueva vida, toma asiento y entra a la nota completa.
Colonias emergentes, opción para adquirir un inmueble. Ver nota.
3. Socios reviven al TPP sin Estados Unidos
Con la participación más activa por parte de Japón, las 11 naciones integrantes del Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico (TPP, por su sigla en inglés) acordaron este domingo impulsar en forma “expedita” la puesta en vigor de ese tratado de libre comercio.
El pronunciamiento y un plan de acción fueron convenidos en un encuentro en Hanoi, Vietnam, en el marco de la reunión de los ministros de comercio del foro de Cooperación Económica Asia Pacífico (APEC, por su sigla en inglés).
Socios reviven al TPP sin Estados Unidos. Ver nota.
4. Alertan de los créditos que ofrecen cajeros
La Condusef recomendó a los ciudadanos ser más cautelosos a la hora de adquirir los créditos de nómina que los bancos ofrecen desde los cajeros automáticos y que en ocasiones sólo basta con aceptarlos para que los depositen en la misma cuenta.
La dependencia sugirió que, antes de contratar un crédito de este tipo, se comparen costos y comisiones de las diferentes opciones que se ofertan en el mercado, además de que la población evite sobre endeudarse.
Alertan de los créditos que ofrecen cajeros. Ver nota.
5. Los mineros, sostenidos por pilares de oro y plata
Ellos son Germán Larrea y Alberto Baillères dos grandes empresarios mexicanos. Larrea es dueño de Grupo México, la mayor empresa de minería y de infraestructura en el país. Al cierre del tercer trimestre del 2017, la fortuna de Germán Larrea alcanzó los 540,309 millones de pesos, 5,362 millones más que el trimestre anterior, con lo que hiló cinco trimestres consecutivos de ganancias, lapso en el que sumó 168,599 millones de pesos, que si bien ubicó su fortuna lejos de la de Carlos Slim, sí fue el que más ganó entre los grandes millonarios de México durante dicho lapso.
Baillères es presidente de Industrias Peñoles, la segunda compañía minera más grande de México, cuya filial, Fresnillo PLC es la principal productora de plata en el orbe. Líder latinoamericano en la producción de oro y plomo afinados, se encuentra entre los principales productores mundiales de zinc afinado y sulfato de sodio y es una de las empresas exportadoras más importantes de México, con más de 80% de sus ventas al extranjero.
Los mineros, sostenidos por pilares de oro y plata. Ver nota.
Seven people and a dog were found dead in an Alabama home that was set on fire, authorities said.
Morgan County deputies responding to a call of a shooting at a home in Valhermoso Springs discovered the bodies after putting out the blaze, sheriff’s officials told WAAY.
“It’s a horrific scene and to be able to process it will take some time,” Morgan County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mike Swafford told the station. “We don’t have a determined suspect at this time.”
Deputies have responded to the home several times, as recently as last week, Swafford said. No additional details were provided.
“This doesn’t happen in Morgan County,” Swafford said. “We had a triple homicide two weeks ago and I think that’s the first anyone can remember in 20-plus years, so to have seven is substantial.”
The victims, who were not immediately identified, were four males and three females, all of whom were shot. A dog was also found dead from a gunshot wound, investigators told the station.
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The incident is one of the worst mass homicides in recent state history, AL.com reports.
The FBI Violent Crimes Task Force is assisting in an ongoing investigation, Morgan County sheriff’s officials said in a statement late Thursday.
“The scene is secure and no immediate threat to the public in the area,” the statement read. “No suspect in custody.”
No survivors were found inside the home, but neighbors spoke to deputies who are working to find leads in the investigation, Swafford told WAFF.
In a season of flames and blackouts across California, yet another intense wildfire has broken out outside Los Angeles.
The Maria Fire, which is mostly affecting residents in Ventura County, has burned more than 8,000 acres so far since exploding on Thursday night. By this morning, however, the flames had spread dramatically. Mandatory evacuations are in place. So far, firefighters are having a tough time containing the fire, but the winds may finally shift in their favor Friday.
“We’re seeing a marked reduction in the wind speeds,” National Weather Service senior meteorologist Patrick Burke told Reuters. “We’ll see steady winds of 15-20 mph through Friday, so that still doesn’t help, but it’s way down from what it was. We’ll continue to see a marked reduction through the weekend. I’d say this wind event is about over.”
That’s a relief. These wild-ass hot and dry winds—dubbed Santa Ana winds in the south and Diablo winds in the north of the state—have been helping fuel the hellscape that’s taken over California. The Maria Fire is only the latest blaze. The Getty Fire continues to rage just southeast of the Maria Fire where evacuation orders remain in place. The Easy Fire is also burning in Ventura County and only remains 10 percent contained. Meanwhile, the Kincade Fire continues to burn north in Wine Country though officials have finally been able to contain it to nearly 70 percent. The fire has already burned over more than 77,000 acres, though, injuring four people and damaging or destroying 352 structures along the way.
The Maria Fire is not playing.Photo: AP
Firefighters are having to contend with flames and smoke, but officials have also raised the alarm about another, non-fire related threat: unauthorized drone usage. A drone caused helicopters to stop dropping water during firefighting efforts for the Maria Fire. If there’s a drone in the air, firefighting aircraft gotta land to ensure there’s no collisions.
“This is a major issue for us, and we work hard to get the word out about the dangers of flying drones near wildfires,” Ian Gregor, a public affairs manager for the Federal Aviation Administration, said in an email to Earther.
In 2019, firefighting efforts from the sky were disrupted nine times due to drones. Most have been in California, but firefighting efforts have also been disrupted in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Washington. And it seems more and more people are sending their drones into the air above wildfires. That puts firefighters at-risk and by slowing down firefighting operations, also opens the door for fires to do more damage.
The spate of California wildfires in recent years have really messed with people’s lives. The state’s largest utility, PG&E, has been in a constant state of shutting people’s power off in Northern California since the wildfire season hit full swing in October in an effort to cut down on blazes sparked by down power lines. On Thursday, the utility finally began restoring power to some customers who had been without power since the weekend.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of city council members in Minneapolis have pledged to abolish the city’s police department after the death of an unarmed black man in custody last month led to some of the biggest protests seen in the United States.
Huge weekend crowds gathered across the country, mostly peacefully. The near-festive tone was marred late on Sunday when a man drove a car into a rally in Seattle and then shot and wounded a demonstrator who confronted him.
The outpouring of protests followed the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died after being pinned by the neck for nine minutes by a white officer’s knee in Minneapolis. A bystander’s cellphone captured the scene as Floyd pleaded with the officer, choking out the words “I can’t breathe.”
“I have cops in my family, I do believe in a police presence,” said Nikky Williams, a black Air Force veteran who marched in Washington on Sunday. “But I do think that reform has got to happen.”
Nine members of the 13-person Minneapolis City Council pledged on Sunday to do away with the police department in favor of a community-led safety model, a step that would have seemed unthinkable just two weeks ago.
“A veto-proof majority of the MPLS City Council just publicly agreed that the Minneapolis Police Department is not reformable and that we’re going to end the current policing system,” Alondra Cano, a member of the Minneapolis council, said on Twitter.
Council members said such reforms would be a long, complex process and provided little detail on the way forward.
Minneapolis City Council president Lisa Bender told CNN “the idea of having no police department is certainly not in the short term.”
In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a series of reforms he said were designed to build trust between city residents and the police department.
De Blasio told reporters he would shift an unspecified amount of money out of the police budget and reallocate it to youth and social services in communities of color.
He said he would also take enforcement of rules on street vending out of the hands of police, who have been accused of using the regulations to harass minority communities.
Curfews were removed in New York and other major cities including Philadelphia and Chicago.
TALKING REFORM
President Donald Trump said on Twitter he ordered the National Guard to start withdrawing from Washington D.C. “now that everything is under perfect control.”
In the nation’s capital, a large and diverse gathering of protesters packed streets near the White House, chanting “This is what democracy looks like!” and “I can’t breathe.”
A newly erected fence around the White House was decorated by protesters with signs, including some that read: “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace.”
Republican Senator Mitt Romney marched alongside evangelical Christians in Washington on Sunday, telling the Washington Post that he wanted to find “a way to end violence and brutality, and to make sure that people understand that black lives matter.”
A common theme of weekend rallies was a determination to transform outrage over Floyd’s death last month into a broader movement seeking far-reaching reforms to the U.S. criminal justice system and its treatment of minorities.
The intensity of protests over the past week began to ebb on Wednesday after prosecutors in Minneapolis arrested all four police officers implicated in Floyd’s death. Derek Chauvin, the officer who pinned Floyd to the ground, was charged with second-degree murder.
Still, anger in Minneapolis remained intense. The city’s mayor ran a gauntlet of jeering protesters on Saturday after telling them he opposed their demands for defunding the city police department.
The renewed calls for racial equality are breaking out across the country as the United States reopens after weeks of unprecedented lockdowns for the coronavirus pandemic and just five months before the Nov. 3 presidential election.
U.S. Democrats have largely embraced the activists packing into streets to decry the killings of black men and women by law enforcement, but have so far expressed wariness at protesters’ calls to defund the police.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama said in an YouTube commencement address for 2020 graduates that the protests roiling America right now “speak to decades of inaction over unequal treatment and a failure to reform police practices in the broader criminal justice system.”
For a graphic on Weapons of Control: What U.S. police are using to corral, subdue and disperse demonstrators: here
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Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; Andrea Shalal, Daphne Psaledakis in Washington, and Jonathan Allen and Sinead Carew in New York, and Brad Brooks in Austin, Texas; Writing by Brad Brooks and Lincoln Feast; Editing by Frank McGurty, Peter Cooney and Raju Gopalakrishnan
“When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol,” Herrera Beutler said in a statement in February, referring a to a loosely knit group of far-left activists. “McCarthy refuted that and told the president that these were Trump supporters. That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said: ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.’ ”
Mediante redes sociales, el Barcelona comunicó las molestias que sufren ambos futbolistas.
Suárez y Piqué podrían ser bajar para la primera jornada del fútbol español. * Redacción
16 Agosto 2017 / 08:13 PM
Las malas noticias siguieron este miércoles en el Barcelona al confirmarse los problemas físicos que mantienen el delantero uruguayo Luis Suárez y el defensor Gerard Piqué.
El equipo catalán, mediante redes sociales, comunicó las molestias que sufren ambos jugadores al termino del encuentro donde fueron superados por el Real Madrid en la final de la Supercopa de España.
La cuenta oficial de Barca en Twitter anunció que Suárez, quien terminó cojeando en el tramo final del encuentro, cuenta con molestias en la rodilla derecha.
Por su parte Piqué, que tuvo que abandonar el terreno de juego y en su lugar ingresó Nelson Semedo, sufre de una sobrecarga en el aductor de la pierna izquirda.
Asimismo el club azulgrana manifestó que se detallará por completo las molestias que sufren los dos jugadores este próximo jueves.
Barcelona debuta este domingo ante el Real Betis en el inicio de la Liga Española en el Camp Nou.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, citing a “disturbing” rise in anti-Semitism, on Tuesday said the Senate could vote on a measure addressing the issue.
His comments come as the House prepares to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, spurred by comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — though the House measure doesn’t measure the first-term lawmaker by name.
McConnell said anti-Semitism is on the rise in part because of recent comments made by Omar and other House Democrats.
The Senate may vote on a measure related to condemning anti-Semitism, McConnell said.
“I am concerned about it,” McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday following a closed-door meeting with fellow GOP lawmakers.
Earlier this year, the Senate passed a Middle East security measure that included a provision meant to stifle the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, which aims to economically isolate Israel.
“We feel like we already addressed a portion of this through the BDS proposal, and we may well address it again,” McConnell said.
“This is a good time in America to think again about anti-Semitism,” McConnell said. “It seems to be more fashion in Europe. it seems to be more fashionable in this country regretfully, at least among some members of the new class in the House. We need to stand up to it in any way we possibly can.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Omar’s comments were “wrong and hurtful.”
Schumer said all senators would condemn anti-Semitism, but he added that Muslims have also been the target of prejudicial attacks.
An exhibit at the West Virginia Republican Party day at the state capital depicted Omar below an image of the burning Twin Towers.
The state GOP has denounced the poster and said it was not responsible for displaying the image.
“Linking all Muslims to the terrorist attacks was wrong and hurtful and and both can be condemned,” Schumer said.
President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to one million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve in a bid to control prices that have spiked after the US and its allies imposed strict sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, according to reports.
Mr Biden spoke with Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the situation in Ukraine. The call comes as Ukrainian and Russian negotiators discuss a de-escalation agreement that could see Russia draw down forces from the area near Kyiv.
Both the White House and the Pentagon have said that they believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed about progress in the war by his senior advisers.
Mr Biden also gave a speech on the state of the coronavirus pandemic, announcing the launch of a central website for resources, before receiving his second booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine.
Meanwhile, after contentious nomination hearings that saw Republican senators harangue her about critical race theory, Ketanji Brown Jackson has picked up a crucial supporter: Maine Senator Susan Collins, who has become the first Republican to announce she will vote to confirm her.
Watch: convicted congressman’s resignation read out in House chamber
Republican Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry recently resigned his seat after being found guilty of lying on numerous counts of lying about an illegal foreign campaign donation. Below is the moment his resignation was formally read out on the House floor.
Speaking to the press at a briefing yesterday, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield
“So what I would say about is this,” she began. “What kind of American, let alone an ex-president, thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin? There is only one, and it’s Donald Trump.”
Biden meets with parents of American detained in Russia
Joe Biden yesterday met with the parents of Trevor Reed, a 30-year-old American citizen and former marine who has been imprisoned in Russia since 2019. He was originally convicted and sentenced on charges of assaulting two Moscow police officers after a drunken party, charges that his parents and the US government claim were trumped up so Mr Reed could be used as a bargaining chip for a potential prisoner exchange.
He is now on his second hunger strike in six months, and according to his parents is possibly suffering from tuberculosis and a broken rib.
The White House’s summary of the meeting reads:
President Biden met today with Joey and Paula Reed, the parents of Trevor Reed, who is wrongfully detained in Russia. During their meeting, the President reiterated his commitment to continue to work to secure the release of Trevor, Paul Whelan, and other Americans wrongfully held in Russia and elsewhere, and to provide all possible assistance until they and others are free and returned home to their families who are advocating so passionately for their release. This is the President’s second interaction with the Reeds. On March 8, President Biden spoke to the Reeds by phone while he was in Texas.
The President’s national security team will remain in regular contact with the Reeds, the Whelan family, and other families of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. We are grateful for their partnership and feedback. We will continue to work to ensure we are communicating and sharing information in a way useful to these families.
Previously, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with the Reed family in a virtual group meeting and then privately in December. He expressed our commitment to bringing Trevor home. We understand the pain felt by all of Trevor’s families and friends enduring the nightmare of his absence, which we are committed to bringing to an end.
Mr Reed’s parents were also reportedly grateful for the meeting:
Watch: Joe Biden receives his second Covid booster shot
After his speech on the Covid-19 pandemic, during which he implored Congress to allocate more funds to the public health response, Joe Biden rolled up his sleeve to receive his second booster shot. The FDA recently approved the added measure for all over-50s and those considered clinically extremely vulnerable.
While being injected, Mr Biden was bombarded with questions about immigration and his call with Volodymyr Zelensky, among other things, but retained his cool.
Kyle Rittenhouse complains Joe Biden won’t answer the phone
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenage gunman who was found not guilty on multiple charges after shooting two people dead at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, has complained that Joe Biden is declining to talk to him.
Speaking to right-wing podcast host Jenna Ellis, Mr Rittenhouse said: “I reached out to Joe Biden several times – crickets, nothing,” Mr Rittenhouse told Ms Ellis. “He still hasn’t replied. So it just shows how much of a man he is to not sit down and talk.”
He has previously accused the president of defaming him via an ad that used an image of him holding his gun at the protest while warning of “white supremacy”. On Ms Ellis’s show, he referred to “all the false narratives that were put out, where people called me a white supremacist, a murderer and racist, and all those other lies”.
ICYMI: US to provide Ukraine government an additional $500m
The United States will provide Ukraine’s government with an additional $500m in “direct budgetary aid” to support its operations as Ukrainian forces continue to fight against Russia’s unprovoked invasion.
Joe Biden might invoke Defence Production Act this week for critical minerals
Joe Biden might invoke the Defence Production Act as soon as this week, CNN reported.
Mr Bidens’s move is aimed to help the domestic production of critical minerals needed to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles and long-term storage.
Quoting a source familiar with these developments, CNN said that doing so would add critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, graphite, cobalt and manganese to the list of items covered by the 1950 Defence Production Act.
The law gives the government more control during emergencies to direct industrial production.
Joe Biden meets parents of former US marine detained in Russia
Joe Biden met the parents of a former US marine who was imprisoned in Russia and promised to end the family’s “nightmare.”
Trever Reed is serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia after he was convicted of assaulting police officers while drunk in 2019.
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Wednesday: “President Biden met today with Joey and Paula Reed, the parents of Trevor Reed, who is wrongfully detained in Russia.”
She added: “During their meeting, the President reiterated his commitment to continue to work to secure the release of Trevor, Paul Whelan, and other Americans wrongfully held in Russia and elsewhere.
“We understand the pain felt by all of Trevor’s families and friends enduring the nightmare of his absence, which we are committed to bringing to an end.”
Mr Reed, meanwhile, is back on hunger strike for the second time and has been put back in solitary confinement.
Joe Biden warns US will not have enough Covid vaccines this fall
Joe Biden has warned that the US will not have enough Covid vaccines this fall to ensure free and easy access for all Americans if Congress fails to pass the $22.5bn in additional funding.
The US President said that the country has enough supply to ensure people eligible for fourth shots have access to them.
The CDC recommended an additional Pfizer or Moderna dose for people who are 50 years of age and above as well as those who have compromised immune systems.
Mr Biden received his fourth dose of Covid vaccine on live television on Wednesday.
A Russian state TV host has called on Americans to re-elect the former president, Donald TrumpEvgeny Popov made the controversial statement on the controlled broadcast over in Russia.The TV personality has been an avid supporter of Trump, and frequently speaks out on his dislike of president Joe Biden.He told viewers that it’s time for the Russian people to call on Americans to change “the regime in the US” before its term expires.He added: “to again help our partner Trump to become President.”Click here to sign up to our free newsletters.
There have also been reports of “corona parties” held by youths in different corners of Germany, causing alarm among the authorities in a country better known for adhering to rules. Some parties, where youths in large groups drank alcohol and chanted, “Corona, corona,” had to be broken up by the police.
Ms. Merkel, in a sobering televised address to the nation on Wednesday, asked all in the country to avoid social contact in a spirit of solidarity with those most at risk in society. Her chief of staff, Helge Braun, issued a sterner warning a day later.
“We call on everyone to implement the measures so far passed,” Mr. Braun said. “And that means, apart from your core family, avoiding ideally all social contacts.”
“We will look at the behavior of the population this weekend,” he added. “Saturday is a decisive day.”
Ms. Merkel, meanwhile, demonstrated what responsible shopping looks like in times of the coronavirus, when she was spotted at her local supermarket in Berlin this weekend.
With a stroke of his pen, Gov. Gavin Newsom has officially ended the over 100-year scourge of single-family-only zoning in California.
Single-family-only zoning laws make it illegal to build anything but a single-family home on a particular lot of land. Now (with small exceptions like for fire-prone areas) it is also legal to build duplexes.
The bills had remained unsigned on the governor’s desk, presumably until after Newsom had a chance to handily deal with the recall challenge that had threatened his tenure. California’s housing affordability crisis and resulting homelessness crisis were key parts of the frustration building in a state where Zillow says the typical home is valued at $708,936 (more than double the typical US home value of $303,288).
While overhauling single-family-only zoning might sound revolutionary, the bills are gentle attempts at increasing density: legalizing duplexes and quadplexes and making it easier to build small apartment buildings that provide up to 10 homes. This doesn’t mean single-family homes are outlawed or can no longer be built, but it provides homeowners the option to convert their homes into duplexes or sell their homes to people who want to do so. Before now, it was illegal for someone to convert their home to a duplex on a lot zoned for single-family zoning. Not anymore.
This isn’t a panacea for housing production. UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation found that SB 9 (the bill that legalizes duplexes) will “modestly accelerate the addition of new units relative to the status quo.” Other laws that restrict the building of new and more affordable homes are still in effect — in particular, local laws around minimum lot sizes will continue to make it illegal to turn single-family homes into duplexes if the existing lot is too small to subdivide while still adhering to the size regulations.
However, the Terner Center finds that “approximately 700,000 new, market-feasible homes would be enabled under SB 9.” That’s a lot! But because many people won’t want to sell their homes or subdivide them themselves, “only a share of that potential is likely to be developed, particularly in the near term. … As such, while important, the new units unlocked by SB 9 would represent a fraction of the overall supply needed to fully address the state’s housing shortage.”
Previous incremental progress on housing production came in the form of ADU (accessory dwelling unit) legalization — for constructing backyard apartments or converting garages into homes. This added more than 20,000 new homes to the state’s housing supply.
This is still the beginning of a long fight to make it easier to build affordable housing in California, but it’s a big moment. Ending single-family-only zoning had long been thought of as impossible. California is pushing the possibilities frontier of states taking action where localities have failed with respect to producing enough housing for their populations. And they’re not the first to pursue a policy in this vein: In 2019, Oregon passed a bill mandating that any city with over 10,000 people allow duplexes in areas zoned for single-family-only housing. This effectively banned single-family-only zoning in that state as well.
This achievement was hard-won by legislators and pro-housing advocates who helped elect them, and it signals a shift in who is deemed responsible for fixing the housing crisis. Housing is still largely seen as a local issue, but as the regional and even national effects begin to be widely recognized, states are feeling the pressure to take action.
“The end of exclusionary, single-unit zoning in California is a historic moment — we’ve taken a huge step toward making California a more affordable, equitable, and inclusive state,” Brian Hanlon, CEO of California YIMBY, said in a statement.
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