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| Judiciary Holds Impeachment Hearing |
Four legal scholars testified yesterday on the constitutional basis and requirements for impeachment, as the House Judiciary Committee held the first in a series of public hearings. At issue was whether or not President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, as detailed in the report from the House Intelligence Committee, rose to the level of an impeachable offense. The hearing fell largely along partisan lines: the three witnesses called by Democrats concluded the president's actions exceeded the bar set in the Constitution, while the Republican witness criticized what he called a rushed process based on insufficient evidence. The committee is expected to hold additional hearings next week before voting on whether to draft articles of impeachment.
Meanwhile, Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani reportedly traveled to Ukraine to work on a documentary refuting the impeachment effort. |
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| Zimmerman Files $100M Suit |
| George Zimmerman, the man who gained notoriety after the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, filed a wide-ranging lawsuit yesterday alleging his prosecution relied on false witness testimony. Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted of murder charges after shooting Martin, an unarmed black teenager, following a struggle after Zimmerman approached him in a gated Florida community. The suit seeks $100M in damages and targets Martin's family - the main defendant is Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton - and number of others, alleging police and prosecutors conspired to create a false narrative in the racially charged case. In particular, Zimmerman claims the prosecutor's star witness ($$, New Yorker), who was on the phone with Martin when Zimmerman approached, gave false testimony. |
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| SNAP Chopped |
The Department of Agriculture gave final approval yesterday to a rule requiring states to enforce the eligibility criteria for receiving federal food assistance more strictly. At issue is a rule limiting the time a nondisabled adult can receive benefits to three months in a three-year period, unless they are engaged in work or work-related activities for 20 hours per week. Previously, states have frequently invoked the option for a waiver, particularly since the Great Recession, for those living in economically depressed areas; however, the new rule would restrict the use of the waiver. Critics say nearly 690,000 people will lose benefits and the decision disproportionately affects the poor, while advocates say the economy has rebounded since 2008 and the move fosters self-sufficiency. It is the first of three rules that could remove up to 3 million people from the supplemental nutrition assistance program (see 101), which currently has 39 million people enrolled.
Rulemaking is a different process than passing laws, which Congress does; here's how it works (PDF). |
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| Instagram is Broken |
| Vox | Rebecca Jennings. Despite Instagram's attempts to improve the mental health of its users - efforts which include hiding the number of likes a post receives - the platform's core issue remains: the replacement of "authenticity" with a never-ending stream of people appearing to have a better time than you. (Read) |
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| NYT | Staff. As conspiracy theories around the death of Jeffrey Epstein continue to swirl, no story may be stranger than that of a man who catfished a high-powered law firm with claims of access to a supposed video cache that Epstein allegedly used to blackmail powerful figures. (Read, $$) |
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