by Sneha Dey and Suzy Vazquez | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment, bringing the five-month long trial proceedings to a close. In the lead up to the verdict, Senators faced partisan pressures from fellow Congressmen and their...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The Senate voted 51-49 Friday night against allowing witnesses and documents in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, making it the only impeachment trial to not hear from witnesses. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said Friday morning she would vote...
by Martha Castro and Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON— For a second day, senators Thursday continued their lines of questioning to the impeachment legal teams to further their party’s arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Republicans and Democrats approached the question period...
by Medill News Service | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: CONTINUED 3:36 p.m. Jan 30, 2020 By Martha Castro and Zamone Perez WASHINGTON— For a second day, Republican senators Thursday questioned lawyers for President Donald Trump to give them opportunities to rebut House...
by Alex Moore | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — As senators got their first chance to question House managers and President Donald Trump’s lawyers Wednesday, Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, told reporters in the Capitol that Republican senators are rushing through the Senate...
by James Pollard | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats and Republicans attempted to carve up the other side’s opening arguments Wednesday in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on the first day they were allowed to ask questions. After listening to the House impeachment...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Capitol steps Wednesday demanding the Senate consider witnesses and documents in the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Leaks of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s upcoming book Sunday...
by Angelina Campanile, Joshua Irvine, Megan Lebowitz and Evan Ochsner | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded its opening statement Tuesday, warning senators of undermining the Constitution and urging them to acquit the president. “Reject these articles of impeachment for our country and for the American...
by Megan Lebowitz and Cassidy Wang | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — After a mere two hours, President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded their first day of oral arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. The lawyers said they do not believe Democrats met the burden of proof and neglected to cite certain key pieces of...
by Sneha Dey, Olivia Olander, James Pollard, Benjamin Rosenberg, Gregory Svirnovskiy and Janea Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON- House impeachment manger Sylvia Garcia said Thursday that President Donald Trump prioritized his personal interests over the country’s national security in a “gross abuse of power.” “If we allow this gross abuse of power to continue…then this...
by Martha Castro, Josh Irvine, Rupa Palla and Suzy Vazquez | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House impeachment managers laid the groundwork for the case against President Donald Trump Wednesday, emphasizing that the president’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine threatened U.S. security. On the second day of the Senate impeachment...
by Angelina Campanile, Megan Lebowitz, Evan Ochsner and Zamone Perez | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Eleven times Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rose before Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday and Wednesday morning to introduce amendments to allow more evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Each time, those amendments...
