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Altria owns Philip Morris USA, which makes Marlboro cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal age limit raise comes after a rapid succession of new laws at the state and local levels. At least 19 states and the District of Columbia have passed some form of the 21 age limit, many in the past year and with the support of big companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glantz says he sees a familiar strategy from the industry as these laws have passed. In this and previous fights, he says tobacco companies will preemptively lobby for bills that are weak or don’t spell out effective enforcement mechanisms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"vaping\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve tried to co-opt the issue and started pushing bad legislation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two most prominent companies supporting the age restriction are Juul and Altria. 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The Census Bureau has been trying to prepare for a potential onslaught of disinformation from Internet trolls and foreign governments in the coming months. In this final stretch before the census begins, concerns linger among immigrant groups and communities of color about the confidentiality of the personal information the government plans to gather, despite federal law prohibiting the bureau from releasing data identifying individuals until 72 years after collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the format of the census evolves, so do the ways that people share information about the census,\" Kevin Martin — Facebook's vice president of U.S. public policy who formerly chaired the Federal Communications Commission under President George W. Bush — and Samidh Chakrabarti, the company's director of product management for civic engagement, wrote on its website. \"This means we have to be more vigilant about protecting against census interference across posts and ads on Facebook and Instagram and help promote an accurate count of every person in the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Facebook has come under fire from critics of how it handles political ads, including ones that contain misleading statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our policy is that we do not fact-check politicians' speech, and the reason for that is that we believe that in a democracy, it is important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying,\" Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in October during a congressional hearing before the House Financial Services Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook's updated policies, however, do put some limits on what politicians can say. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 8:56 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump is now just the third president in American history to be impeached. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\">two articles of impeachment against President Trump\u003c/a>. The first article, which charges Trump with abuse of power, was approved largely along a party line vote, 230-197-1. The second article on obstructing Congress passed 229-198-1. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only two Democrats opposed the first impeachment article, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson and New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who is expected to switch parties to the GOP this week. Maine Rep. Jared Golden voted for the first article but against the second one. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, voted present. No Republicans voted for either article, although Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who left the GOP earlier this year to become an independent because he supported impeachment, also voted for both articles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House spent six hours of debate on the articles throughout the day on Wednesday. The vote came just one day before the 21 year anniversary of the House voting to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the debate, Democrats framed the choice as one to protect the Constitution and democracy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we do not act now,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a speech on the floor, \"we would be derelict in our duty.\" She added that the president \"gave us no choice\" and called Trump an \"ongoing threat\" to national security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and other Democratic women wore black to signify the solemnity of the occasion. But Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., disputed the idea of this being a somber moment for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a solemn occasion,\" Collins said. \"When you go looking for something for three years, and especially this year since January, you ought to be excited when you've found it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins went on. \"Why do we keep calling this a solemn occasion when you've been wanting to do this ever since the gentleman was elected?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president, apparently following the debate at the White House, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1207355923573989376\">tweeted \u003c/a>(in all caps) that the \"radical left\" is putting forward \"atrocious lies\" and called the push for his impeachment \"an assault on America and an assault on the Republican party!!!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1207355923573989376?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning, the House debated the rules on how to proceed and approved it on a mostly party-line vote, 228-197. There were just two Democratic defections — Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These same two opposed the House resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/15/788219342/house-democrat-who-opposed-impeachment-plans-to-switch-to-the-republican-party\">Van Drew is planning to switch parties\u003c/a> but has not officially announced when he will become a Republican. The lone independent, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, voted with Democrats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules were determined by the House Rules Committee on Tuesday night. The morning session also saw some debate from members of Congress about Trump's impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one came to Congress to impeach a president,\" Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., said on the House floor. But, he added, Trump's behavior \"is so blatantly wrong that ignoring his abuses of power would be abdicating the oath we made to protect this country and uphold our Constitution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members framed their votes as a legacy moment for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., addressed his floor speech to his children. \"I want to tell you the story of this day,\" he said. \"Let the record show that today justice won, that we did our job, that we kept our word, that we stood our sacred ground. Let the record show that we did not let you down.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy concluded, \"I love you. Listen to Mom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Trump Impeachment Inquiry\" tag=\"impeachment\"]Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., referenced Scripture. \"When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers,\" Loudermilk said. \"During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Republicans complained about the impeachment process and argued the president has committed no crimes. There is \"no proof, none\" that the president committed an impeachable offense, said Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz. She charged that \"Democrats are tearing this country apart; they're tearing families apart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., argued that Democrats have long wanted to impeach Trump. \"If we're really being honest,\" Cole said, \"Democrats have been searching to impeach President Trump since the day he was elected.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing lawmakers from both sides of the aisle did agree on: It was a sad day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a sad day. It is not a day for joy,\" said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. \"When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a sad day for America,\" agreed Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, before calling for a moment of silence to memorialize the 63 million Americans who voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the House rejected two motions brought forward by Republicans seeking to delay the eventual impeachment vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The articles of impeachment were approved on a party-line vote last week by the House Judiciary Committee. Wednesday's vote is also expected to closely follow party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have remained solidly behind the president, while Democrats — who control the House — have run the process leading up to Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump on Tuesday released \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Letter-from-President-Trump-final.pdf\">a scorching letter\u003c/a> to Pelosi, in which he called the impeachment effort an \"illegal, partisan attempted coup.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great Election of 2016,\" he wrote. \"So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes. You view democracy as your enemy!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president told reporters Tuesday that he takes \"zero\" responsibility for getting impeached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats charge that\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the president abused the power of his office \"by ignoring national security and other vital national interests to obtain an improper personal political benefit,\" according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/788383947/read-the-house-judiciary-committees-trump-impeachment-report\">an impeachment report\u003c/a> by House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, released Sunday. It further charges that Trump \"betrayed the nation by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the second article, obstruction of Congress, the Judiciary Committee majority charges\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that \"no president has ever claimed the unilateral prerogative to categorically and indiscriminately deny a House impeachment inquiry\" and that Trump's\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"direction to defy House subpoenas constituted an assault on the Impeachment Clause itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the House adopts the articles of impeachment, as expected, the next step is for leadership to name the impeachment managers for a Senate trial. That move could come as early as Wednesday night, but Pelosi will decide whom to tap and she has not signaled when she will do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, meanwhile, White House staffers distributed Christmas cards from Trump as well as copies of his letter to Pelosi, according to Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1207391721539227648?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Senate trial, all 100 senators will act as jurors. Two-thirds, or 67 votes, would be needed to convict Trump, an outcome that is unlikely\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in the Republican-led Senate. In remarks to reporters on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788924966/mcconnell-i-m-not-impartial-about-impeachment\">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he is not neutral\u003c/a> on whether Trump should be removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not an impartial juror,\" he said. \"This is a political process. There's not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision. The House made a partisan political decision to impeach. I would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the Senate. I'm not impartial about this at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving a taste of the continuing party battles, McConnell has rejected a Democratic proposal for certain witnesses. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton, along with two others, to testify. But McConnell rejected the idea, calling it \"dead wrong.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Dec. 16, 2019\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal in a case originating from Boise, Idaho, that would have made it a crime to camp and sleep in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to let a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stand has reverberating effects for the states under the circuit court, including California. The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal is considered a setback for governments in much of the West that are grappling with widespread homelessness by designing laws to regulate makeshift encampments on sidewalks and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11777005,news_11764548']The case stems from a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago. A handful of people sued the city of Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for violating an ordinance against sleeping outside. While Boise officials later amended their ordinance, the 9th Circuit eventually determined the local law was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decision last year, the court said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means states across the 9th Circuit can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case now returns to the 9th Circuit. The city of Boise says it’s evaluating its next steps.\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR’s original story\u003c/a> on the Boise case published Dec. 13, 2019:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s billed as one of the most livable places in the country with its good schools, leafy streets and safe neighborhoods. That’s what makes Boise, Idaho, an odd backdrop for a heated legal fight around homelessness that is reverberating across the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes back nearly a decade to when seven homeless people sued Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for sleeping outside. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/04/01/15-35845.pdf\">ruled in their favor\u003c/a>. The decision said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means in states across the 9th Circuit — including Washington, Oregon and California — cities and counties can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pam Hawkes was one of the original plaintiffs in the case. She now lives in Spokane, Washington, where she had been in and out of homelessness and only recently found stable housing. Seven years ago, she and her then-partner had nowhere to live in Boise, and many nights, they had no other choice but to pitch a tent in a wooded area along the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘I just need somewhere to lay my head overnight,’ and it’s not like we left camp up,” she said. “We always packed up and we always kept it clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she says she tried to keep herself hidden, police issued her more than a dozen tickets. Like most people living on the streets, Hawkes didn’t have steady work and couldn’t pay the fines. So she ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d never been in jail a whole day and night before,” she said. “It was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boise has hired a high-powered Los Angeles-based law firm to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Dozens of other municipalities and organizations, ranging from the downtown L.A. YMCA to a group of California counties, have filed amicus briefs in support of the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the fight over how to deal with the ever-growing homelessness crisis — most acutely visible in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle — is dividing cities, neighborhoods and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a deciding factor in the unusually heated Boise mayoral race between two Democrats this past fall. Like many western cities, Boise is in the midst of an extraordinary affordable housing shortage. It’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a source of tension in some corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message that prevailed was city council president Lauren McLean’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention, if we want to prevent camps, we have to prevent homelessness,” she said during a forum at at a local homeless shelter. “We’ve got to address the affordability crisis in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a divisive runoff earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/runoff-election-results-2019-mclean-wins-boise-mayor-race-mcgee-takes-caldwell-city-council\">McLean handily beat the city’s longest-serving mayor\u003c/a>, Dave Bieter. He took heat for the city spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal a case, money that some argued should be going to housing and more support services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bieter warned that the famously pleasant and livable city of Boise can remain that way only if it has the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of tent cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really concerned when I see Seattle or Portland or San Francisco, I go there and I see a city that’s overwhelmed by the problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/san-francisco-like-many-places-across-the-west-face-a-growing-homelessness-crisis/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791457\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco, like many places across the West, face a growing homelessness crisis. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cities like those, and in Los Angeles, the homelessness crisis is far more eye-opening than in Boise. Homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Los Angeles’ skid row, some 3,000 people sleep on the streets in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos. The county is home to nearly 60,000 homeless people, and the city’s homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html\">population jumped 16%\u003c/a> in the last year. California is where nearly a quarter of the country’s homeless population live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer and Los Angeles County each filed \u003ca href=\"http://filedn.com/lOJqn8isbUNJvUBnJTlV5OS/CITY%20OF%20LA%20AMICUS%20BRIEF%20CITY%20OF%20BOISE.pdf\">amicus briefs\u003c/a> in support of the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the Supreme Court to issue clear rules that lead there to be certainty in jurisdictions like ours as to how we can regulate — constitutionally — conduct on our sidewalks,” Feuer said. “A shared space for which we need to strike a very fine balance between the rights and legitimate interests of homeless people and the rights and legitimate interests of other residents and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11752329,news_11748088,news_11739894,news_11745902,news_11678178' label='The Rise in Homelessness']The Boise ruling, he said, sweeps too broadly. He wants clarity. Does Los Angeles have the right to intervene if someone, for example, refuses to take an available shelter bed even if the city doesn’t have beds for everyone? Is the city required to do burdensome nightly counts of the homeless population as compared with the number of shelter beds available?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to assure that there are rules that everybody can live by, so that all our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody,” he said. “Occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement, and sometimes a level of enforcement is going to pertain to people who are homeless, not because of their status of being homeless, but because of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is nowhere near the number of shelter beds or temporary and permanent housing for the people who need it, Feuer said. But as the city works to solve the crisis, it also needs tools to keep Los Angeles safe. Business owners, housed residents, homeless people and advocates are frustrated with the growing encampments, garbage, human feces and used needles. This is all increasing as the city spends more on tackling the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh\">Proposition HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion affordable housing bond program to build 10,000 supportive housing units for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles. Not one unit is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/in-los-angeles-homeless-encampments-sprout-up-in-underpasses-along-streets-on-scores-of-sidewalks-and-inside-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791458\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1920x1479.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, homeless encampments sprout up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Three years later, we have more houseless people than ever before. Three years later, three houseless people per day are dying. Three years later, 150 people per day are entering into the houseless ranks,” said Pete White, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://cangress.org/\">Los Angeles Community Action Network\u003c/a> or L.A. CAN, based on skid row. His organization has been on the other side of many legal challenges against city ordinances it considers anti-homeless, from property confiscation to stopping people who have nowhere to go from sleeping in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Los Angeles and other cities have to stop reaching into a toolbox to police the problem and start reaching into a toolbox to solve the problem. The solution is clear: affordable housing and services for the underserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the L.A. CAN office, Juan Brown is shaking his head as he watches sanitation workers fill garbage trucks and power-wash the sidewalks. Police are taping off the area as outreach workers roam the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another ploy to harass the homeless, making us move,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was living on the corner where he stands for three years before finally getting into housing a month ago. He lost his job as a truck driver after he was hit by a drunken driver. He couldn’t make rent and ended up outside. He refers to the clean streets effort he’s watching as clean sweeps, because homeless people are forced to move, temporarily. If they don’t get their stuff out of the way in time, he said, it gets confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re targeted because Los Angeles look at us like cockroaches instead of human beings,” he said. “We’re no longer human beings out here. Homeless people are cockroaches to society now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Romo of NPR also contributed reporting to this updated article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The case stems from a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago. A handful of people sued the city of Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for violating an ordinance against sleeping outside. While Boise officials later amended their ordinance, the 9th Circuit eventually determined the local law was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decision last year, the court said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means states across the 9th Circuit can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case now returns to the 9th Circuit. The city of Boise says it’s evaluating its next steps.\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR’s original story\u003c/a> on the Boise case published Dec. 13, 2019:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s billed as one of the most livable places in the country with its good schools, leafy streets and safe neighborhoods. That’s what makes Boise, Idaho, an odd backdrop for a heated legal fight around homelessness that is reverberating across the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes back nearly a decade to when seven homeless people sued Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for sleeping outside. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/04/01/15-35845.pdf\">ruled in their favor\u003c/a>. The decision said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means in states across the 9th Circuit — including Washington, Oregon and California — cities and counties can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So she ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d never been in jail a whole day and night before,” she said. “It was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boise has hired a high-powered Los Angeles-based law firm to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Dozens of other municipalities and organizations, ranging from the downtown L.A. YMCA to a group of California counties, have filed amicus briefs in support of the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the fight over how to deal with the ever-growing homelessness crisis — most acutely visible in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle — is dividing cities, neighborhoods and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a deciding factor in the unusually heated Boise mayoral race between two Democrats this past fall. Like many western cities, Boise is in the midst of an extraordinary affordable housing shortage. It’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a source of tension in some corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message that prevailed was city council president Lauren McLean’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention, if we want to prevent camps, we have to prevent homelessness,” she said during a forum at at a local homeless shelter. “We’ve got to address the affordability crisis in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a divisive runoff earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/runoff-election-results-2019-mclean-wins-boise-mayor-race-mcgee-takes-caldwell-city-council\">McLean handily beat the city’s longest-serving mayor\u003c/a>, Dave Bieter. He took heat for the city spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal a case, money that some argued should be going to housing and more support services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bieter warned that the famously pleasant and livable city of Boise can remain that way only if it has the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of tent cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really concerned when I see Seattle or Portland or San Francisco, I go there and I see a city that’s overwhelmed by the problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/san-francisco-like-many-places-across-the-west-face-a-growing-homelessness-crisis/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791457\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco, like many places across the West, face a growing homelessness crisis. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cities like those, and in Los Angeles, the homelessness crisis is far more eye-opening than in Boise. Homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Los Angeles’ skid row, some 3,000 people sleep on the streets in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos. The county is home to nearly 60,000 homeless people, and the city’s homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html\">population jumped 16%\u003c/a> in the last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Boise ruling, he said, sweeps too broadly. He wants clarity. Does Los Angeles have the right to intervene if someone, for example, refuses to take an available shelter bed even if the city doesn’t have beds for everyone? Is the city required to do burdensome nightly counts of the homeless population as compared with the number of shelter beds available?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to assure that there are rules that everybody can live by, so that all our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody,” he said. “Occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement, and sometimes a level of enforcement is going to pertain to people who are homeless, not because of their status of being homeless, but because of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is nowhere near the number of shelter beds or temporary and permanent housing for the people who need it, Feuer said. But as the city works to solve the crisis, it also needs tools to keep Los Angeles safe. Business owners, housed residents, homeless people and advocates are frustrated with the growing encampments, garbage, human feces and used needles. This is all increasing as the city spends more on tackling the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh\">Proposition HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion affordable housing bond program to build 10,000 supportive housing units for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles. Not one unit is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/in-los-angeles-homeless-encampments-sprout-up-in-underpasses-along-streets-on-scores-of-sidewalks-and-inside-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791458\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1920x1479.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, homeless encampments sprout up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Three years later, we have more houseless people than ever before. Three years later, three houseless people per day are dying. Three years later, 150 people per day are entering into the houseless ranks,” said Pete White, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://cangress.org/\">Los Angeles Community Action Network\u003c/a> or L.A. CAN, based on skid row. His organization has been on the other side of many legal challenges against city ordinances it considers anti-homeless, from property confiscation to stopping people who have nowhere to go from sleeping in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Los Angeles and other cities have to stop reaching into a toolbox to police the problem and start reaching into a toolbox to solve the problem. The solution is clear: affordable housing and services for the underserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the L.A. CAN office, Juan Brown is shaking his head as he watches sanitation workers fill garbage trucks and power-wash the sidewalks. Police are taping off the area as outreach workers roam the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another ploy to harass the homeless, making us move,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was living on the corner where he stands for three years before finally getting into housing a month ago. He lost his job as a truck driver after he was hit by a drunken driver. He couldn’t make rent and ended up outside. He refers to the clean streets effort he’s watching as clean sweeps, because homeless people are forced to move, temporarily. If they don’t get their stuff out of the way in time, he said, it gets confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re targeted because Los Angeles look at us like cockroaches instead of human beings,” he said. “We’re no longer human beings out here. Homeless people are cockroaches to society now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Romo of NPR also contributed reporting to this updated article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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Some have been waiting, in many cases for years, for the Education Department to decide their financial fate. Federal agencies found, starting in 2015, that some for-profit colleges, including the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/07/08/329550897/the-collapse-of-corinthian-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corinthian Colleges\u003c/a> and ITT Technical Institute, lied to these students about their job prospects and the value of their credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the waning days of the Obama administration, the Education Department decided to grant full loan relief to these defrauded borrowers under a previously little-used rule called “borrower defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when DeVos took over, she quickly made clear that the department would not be offering borrowers blanket relief. She came up with a new formula that would provide only partial relief to the vast majority of borrowers, based on their present-day income. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:38 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned votes on two articles of impeachment against President Trump were delayed late Thursday night by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He asked members to consider how they want to vote and to reconvene at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranking minority member Rep. Doug Collins and others protested that Nadler had upset the committee's plans without consulting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judiciary Committee had sparred for more than 12 hours Thursday ahead of an expected votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/jLKQgEir9Bs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the articles will head to a vote of the full House, likely by the end of next week. 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How about the highest crime that one who holds public office can commit — a crime against our Constitution?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791063\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791063\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., listens during a House Judiciary Committee markup hearing on the articles of impeachment against President Trump on Capitol Hill on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee rejected Jordan's amendment on a party line vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., then offered an amendment that alluded to the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter, and the Ukrainian company that paid him for a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaetz also read from \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign?verso=true\">a magazine profile that described Hunter's alleged drug use\u003c/a> and the discovery of drug paraphernalia in his rental car. Democrats don't want to focus on what Gaetz called the true corruption here — that which involved the Bidens and Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791062\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791062\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee holds up a Constitution as she speaks during a Thursday's hearing. \u003ccite>(Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., announced his opposition to Gaetz's proposal, alluding indirectly to reports about Gaetz's arrest in connection with allegedly driving under the influence. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/01/facebook-posts/post-says-rep-matt-gaetz-has-numerous-duis-wrong/\">Those charges were dropped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pot calling the kettle black is not something we should do,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so ran the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Next steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats control the majority in the committee and in the full House. They can control the text of the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Thursday that she is leaving it up to members about how to decide to vote when the time comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no message,\" she said, alluding to the practice of encouraging members to vote a certain way via an officer in the legislature known as the \"whip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not whipping this legislation nor do we ever whip something like this,\" Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued the speaker: \"People need to come to their own conclusions. They've seen the facts as presented in the Intelligence Committee. They have seen the Constitution as they know it they take an oath to protect and defend it ... They'll make their own decisions. I don't say anything to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meanwhile, circulated a note to members on Thursday that featured a line in red with the key word emphasized in all-capital letters: \"Whip Scalise recommends a NO vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full House could vote sometime next week on impeachment. If the measure passes, it would launch the trial in the Senate, expected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans control the Senate and they're expected to acquit Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has called the proceedings a \"witch hunt\" and \"failing.\" He dubbed it \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-2020-rally-hershey-pennsylvania-impeachment-20191210.html\">impeachment lite\u003c/a>\" and \"the lightest impeachment in the history of our country by far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ukraine affair\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\">The two articles Democrats introduced\u003c/a> are for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The abuse of power charge centers on a pressure campaign carried out against Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple witnesses testified to an effort to get Ukraine to announce investigations into conspiracy theories about the 2016 campaign and into the Bidens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pressure campaign mounted, the Trump administration froze nearly $400 million in military aid already allocated by Congress and promised a White House meeting for Ukraine's president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds were eventually released; the White House meeting still has not taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obstruction of Congress charge owes to Trump's broad directive to block witnesses from testifying and documents from being released in connection with the Ukraine matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing notably was in prime-time television viewing. Polling has barely budged any views. By a 45% to 44% margin, Americans were split on whether Trump should be impeached and removed, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\">NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Trump Impeachment Inquiry\" tag=\"impeachment\"]That split also was on full display Wednesday night \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786861542/house-democrats-to-begin-amending-impeachment-articles-wednesday-evening\">when the markup began\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats were firm in their view that the president tried to \"cheat\" in the 2020 election by soliciting foreign interference in U.S. elections — and should be impeached and removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In pressuring Ukraine for a personal favor, President Trump both betrayed our national security and attempted to corrupt our elections,\" Nadler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, on the other hand, were dug in on their view that this impeachment is simply about politics, that Democrats have sought to impeach Trump since he was elected and that Trump committed no specific criminal act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been on this path since November 2016,\" Collins said. \"The only thing that's changed is your desire to impeach the president when you became the majority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:38 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned votes on two articles of impeachment against President Trump were delayed late Thursday night by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He asked members to consider how they want to vote and to reconvene at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranking minority member Rep. Doug Collins and others protested that Nadler had upset the committee's plans without consulting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judiciary Committee had sparred for more than 12 hours Thursday ahead of an expected votes.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jLKQgEir9Bs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jLKQgEir9Bs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If approved, the articles will head to a vote of the full House, likely by the end of next week. A vote to impeach would trigger a Senate trial, expected in January, over whether Trump keeps his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month's spectacle is rare — it is only the fourth time articles of impeachment have been introduced. If the House votes to impeach Trump, that would represent only the third such instance in United States history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knife fight over amendments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Judiciary Committee's Republicans did not go along quietly Thursday and sought to delay the panel's actions with procedural motions and appeals to the chairman, Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., including for a hearing of their own they believe they're owed under the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791064\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791064\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Jim Jordan speaks with speaks with Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, moved to strike the language of the first article of impeachment and to substitute words that emphasized what he called an account of the Ukraine affair that underscored how Trump had done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., opposed that amendment to preserve the articles of impeachment based on what he called Trump's improper conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, said, \"There simply wasn't a crime committed here and there shouldn't be an impeachment here, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., had his own take: \"There are no crimes here? That is the defense? ... How about the highest crime that one who holds public office can commit — a crime against our Constitution?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791063\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791063\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., listens during a House Judiciary Committee markup hearing on the articles of impeachment against President Trump on Capitol Hill on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee rejected Jordan's amendment on a party line vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., then offered an amendment that alluded to the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter, and the Ukrainian company that paid him for a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaetz also read from \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign?verso=true\">a magazine profile that described Hunter's alleged drug use\u003c/a> and the discovery of drug paraphernalia in his rental car. Democrats don't want to focus on what Gaetz called the true corruption here — that which involved the Bidens and Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791062\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791062\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee holds up a Constitution as she speaks during a Thursday's hearing. \u003ccite>(Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., announced his opposition to Gaetz's proposal, alluding indirectly to reports about Gaetz's arrest in connection with allegedly driving under the influence. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/01/facebook-posts/post-says-rep-matt-gaetz-has-numerous-duis-wrong/\">Those charges were dropped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pot calling the kettle black is not something we should do,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so ran the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Next steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats control the majority in the committee and in the full House. They can control the text of the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Thursday that she is leaving it up to members about how to decide to vote when the time comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no message,\" she said, alluding to the practice of encouraging members to vote a certain way via an officer in the legislature known as the \"whip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not whipping this legislation nor do we ever whip something like this,\" Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued the speaker: \"People need to come to their own conclusions. They've seen the facts as presented in the Intelligence Committee. They have seen the Constitution as they know it they take an oath to protect and defend it ... They'll make their own decisions. I don't say anything to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meanwhile, circulated a note to members on Thursday that featured a line in red with the key word emphasized in all-capital letters: \"Whip Scalise recommends a NO vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full House could vote sometime next week on impeachment. If the measure passes, it would launch the trial in the Senate, expected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans control the Senate and they're expected to acquit Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has called the proceedings a \"witch hunt\" and \"failing.\" He dubbed it \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-2020-rally-hershey-pennsylvania-impeachment-20191210.html\">impeachment lite\u003c/a>\" and \"the lightest impeachment in the history of our country by far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ukraine affair\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\">The two articles Democrats introduced\u003c/a> are for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The abuse of power charge centers on a pressure campaign carried out against Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple witnesses testified to an effort to get Ukraine to announce investigations into conspiracy theories about the 2016 campaign and into the Bidens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pressure campaign mounted, the Trump administration froze nearly $400 million in military aid already allocated by Congress and promised a White House meeting for Ukraine's president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds were eventually released; the White House meeting still has not taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obstruction of Congress charge owes to Trump's broad directive to block witnesses from testifying and documents from being released in connection with the Ukraine matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing notably was in prime-time television viewing. Polling has barely budged any views. 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They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/777262292/betsy-devos-and-the-high-stakes-standoff-over-student-loan-forgiveness\">a rule called “borrower defense.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos disagrees: She says most student borrowers still got value from these schools and deserve only \u003cem>partial\u003c/em> relief from their federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, internal Education Department memos obtained by NPR show that career staff in the department’s Borrower Defense Unit came down firmly on the side of defrauded borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos show this unit reviewed thousands of borrower complaints against now-defunct, for-profit colleges, including Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Just weeks before DeVos was sworn in as secretary, the unit recommended to the department’s political leadership that these borrowers deserve no less than full relief from their student debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572882-1-9-2017-Memo\">One memo, dated Jan. 9, 2017\u003c/a>, begins: “Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (‘Corinthian’) consistently represented that all graduates obtained jobs after graduation or, relatedly, that its students were guaranteed employment after graduation. These representations were false and misleading. 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So now, the Judiciary Committee says it must first receive the Intelligence Committee’s report formally and then assess what charges to prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Read the Transcripts!’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, President Trump asked his Twitter followers to read the account of the phone call he had on July 25 with his Ukrainian counterpart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Read the Transcripts!” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1204065132894142469\">he wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1204065132894142469?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interpretation of a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the key to whether what the president did was improper and impeachable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that call, according to a call summary released by the White House, Trump asked for a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764052120/read-transcript-of-president-trumps-call-with-ukraine-s-leader\">favor, though\u003c/a>” after Zelenskiy mentioned key weapons that Ukraine needs and has been using in its fight against Russia at its eastern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump proceeded to ask for help investigating two conspiracy theories — one about Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 election (for which there is no evidence) and a conspiracy theory about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Trump Impeachment Inquiry\" tag=\"impeachment\"]Several witnesses, which included senior diplomats and national security officials, testified over the past few weeks that they thought the call was inappropriate, that the request was political and intended to help the president’s reelection and not about corruption writ large in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, the American public says that what the president did was wrong — 70% in the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\">NPR/\u003cem>PBS NewsHour\u003c/em>/Marist poll \u003c/a>said it is not acceptable for a president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration was withholding a White House meeting and almost $400 million in military aid, while a pressure campaign was taking place, led by the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who had multiple contacts with Giuliani, the president and Ukrainian officials, testified that there was a “quid pro quo.” He said a White House meeting was being held up until Ukraine announced the investigations Giuliani and President Trump sought. That meeting has never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aid was eventually released Sept. 11 without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican counsel Stephen Castor, who asked many of the questions during the Intelligence Committee hearings, questioned the strength of Sondland’s testimony. He said Sondland had “no firsthand knowledge” of a direct “quid pro quo” linkage to President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He merely presumed there were preconditions,” Castor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castor said Democrats are centering their evidence of wrongdoing on the call summary the White House released with Ukraine’s president. But, he contended, “it is not” evidence of of impeachable conduct. He also called Democrats’ reasoning “baloney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castor was also critical of Democrats’ timeline for impeachment, calling it an “artificial and arbitrary” deadline. On the process, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763700264/trumps-ukraine-call-may-be-game-changer-on-impeachment\">began in September\u003c/a>, he accused Democrats of “fundamentally unfair” tactics, calling the impeachment inquiry a “rushed, take-it-or-leave-it approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_XZ-wHK2uc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the potential articles of impeachment Democrats could bring against the president is obstruction of Congress. That centers on the number of witnesses and documents that have not been released from the Trump administration despite subpoenas for those witnesses and documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castor later contended that Trump was “not asking for a personal favor” on the phone call with Zelenskiy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was speaking on behalf of the American people,” Castor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Republican Complaints About Phone Records\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond the contents of that Trump-Zelenskiy call, Republicans voiced frustration with congressional investigators gathering \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784819728/giuliani-nunes-and-1-a-look-at-what-the-impeachment-report-phone-records-mean\">phone records of key players involved in the pressure campaign\u003c/a>. Those records included, perhaps surprisingly, Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes was integral in the questioning of witnesses during the public and private impeachment proceedings and depositions. He strongly made the case for the president and against the Democratic process, in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records found several contacts between Nunes, Giuliani, and Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-parnas-and-igor-fruman-charged-conspiring-violate-straw-and-foreign-donor-bans\">indicted by federal prosecutors \u003c/a>for violating bans on straw and foreign donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins objected to those phone records being included and demanded to know of Goldman who ordered them to be included. He called their inclusion a “gratuitous drive by” and a “smear campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin went so far as to call it “a clear abuse of power” and that those who issued the subpoenas and released the records “should be ashamed of themselves.” He then added, “The surveillance state can get out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman declined to get into the details of how the investigation was conducted, but said subpoenaing phone records was standard practice in this type of investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40393_GettyImages-1187381002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) debate the rules during testimony by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Barry Berke representing the majority Democrats, and Stephen Castor representing the minority Republicans, before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40393_GettyImages-1187381002-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40393_GettyImages-1187381002-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40393_GettyImages-1187381002-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40393_GettyImages-1187381002-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40393_GettyImages-1187381002-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) debate the rules during testimony by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Barry Berke representing the majority Democrats, and Stephen Castor representing the minority Republicans, before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Progress Toward Impeachment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nadler’s committee will be tasked with writing articles of impeachment against the president that could include abuse of power and bribery, obstruction of Congress and obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll bring articles of impeachment presumably before the committee at some point later in the week,” Nadler said Sunday on NBC’s \u003cem>Meet The Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler, though, said he had not yet decided which articles to bring. A sticking point among some Democrats is whether to include findings of the Mueller Russia investigation to support an obstruction of justice article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans led by ranking member Collins have complained all along about the impeachment process and argue that the case about Ukraine not only is meritless, but that Nadler and Democrats have been reckless and sloppy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judiciary Committee would charged with introducing, then amending the articles of impeachment. Then, the committee, controlled by Democrats, would vote on whether to send the articles for a vote of the full House. That is expected before Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a majority of the House supports it, that would trigger a Senate trial, likely in January. Republicans control the upper chamber, and they’re expected to acquit Trump. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said he’ll convene a trial as required under the Constitution but that he thinks it’s “inconceivable” that the needed 20 Republicans would break ranks to remove Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, for his own part, has said he hopes the House moves quickly to impeach him in order to set up a Senate trial that Republicans could use for their own political purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has so far declined to participate in the process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Impeachment+Hearing%2C+Democrats+Argue+Trump+Actions+Are+%27Clear+And+Present+Danger%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>How safe is your Uber ride? That question has dogged the company for years, as it has faced complaints from passengers and drivers alleging they have been sexually assaulted in an Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Uber is revealing the scale of those complaints for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company received 5,981 allegations of serious sexual assault in the U.S. over two years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/about/reports/us-safety-report/\">new report covering 2017 and 2018\u003c/a>. The claims range from unwanted touching and kissing to rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.-only report also covers deaths involving Uber rides. During those two years, 107 people died in crashes involving Uber cars, and 19 people were killed in physical assaults during or soon after an Uber ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As troubling as those statistics are, the incidents they capture are rare. People in the U.S. took 2.3 billion rides using Uber in those two years. For 99.9% of those trips, no safety incident was reported, and the serious safety problems detailed in the report were even more uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the scale that Uber operates, we're going to see both the good and the bad that happens in society because we're operating so many trips every single day,\" said Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the unfortunate but sad truths is that sexual assault, sexual violence is far more prevalent in American society than a lot of people recognize,\" he said. \"That exists in companies, it exists in classrooms, it exists on university campuses and homes. Uber's not immune to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Data Paint a Mixed, and Limited, Picture\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The report is a window into a long-standing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782732967/uber-stripped-of-its-license-to-operate-in-london\">problem \u003c/a>for ride-hailing companies — not just Uber, but competitors around the world, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899409/lyft-facing-flood-of-lawsuits-after-riders-report-they-were-sexually-attacked-by\">Lyft\u003c/a> in the U.S., Didi in China and Ola in India. The apps have come under intense scrutiny for how they screen drivers, handle complaints and remove offenders from their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Uber's report doesn't present a complete picture. When it comes to sexual assaults, Uber includes what it defines as the five most severe categories: nonconsensual kissing of a nonsexual body part, attempted nonconsensual sexual penetration, nonconsensual touching of a sexual body part, nonconsensual kissing of a sexual body part and nonconsensual sexual penetration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report does not include other types of sexual misconduct, like masturbation, asking for sex or verbal threats of assault. Uber worked with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and other advocacy groups to develop the report and address safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11789655 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/12042019_Lyft-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report counts car crashes and physical assaults that resulted in a death, but not those that resulted in injuries — likely far larger numbers. The company says it will release updated figures every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate of serious sexual assault incidents per ride went down in every category between 2017 and 2018. For example, the average rate of sexual assault reports across the five categories fell 16% from one year to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel comfortable that Uber is a very safe mode of transportation. And I think the data in this report actually indicates that as well,\" West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber also warned that rates could go up in the years to come if more people are encouraged to report sexual assault. Reporting rates for sexual violence and misconduct are notoriously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual assault numbers in Uber's report cover a wide range of allegations. Some of the claims ended up being investigated by police and criminally prosecuted. In other cases, Uber was unable to reach the person who reported the assault for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victims were both riders and drivers. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/728005817/uber-to-start-banning-passengers-with-low-ratings\">passengers\u003c/a> were accused of sexual assault in nearly half the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most frequent reports were of unwanted touching of sexual body parts — the mouth, breasts, buttocks or genitals. Uber received 1,440 such reports in 2017 and 1,560 in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company received 235 reports of nonconsensual sexual penetration — rape — last year and 229 such reports the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 19 deaths from physical assault, Uber did not break down who committed the assaults. Eight victims were riders, seven were Uber drivers and four were third parties, such as people outside the cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber considers a fatal assault as related to Uber if it involved at least one person using the app — either a rider or driver — or if it involved people paired by the Uber app and took place within 48 hours of the ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is Uber More or Less Safe Than a Taxi?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A question the report does not answer is how Uber's safety record compares with other forms of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no national statistics for how many sexual assaults or deaths happen in U.S. taxis each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxis are typically regulated by individual cities, and most police departments do not track whether sexual assaults involve a particular company or type of work, said John Boit, executive vice president of the Transportation Alliance, a trade group that represents taxi and limousine companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rachel Abrams, San Francisco lawyer whose firm represents victims of sexual assault on ride-hailing apps\"]'Having a dashboard camera for these rides would, I think, prevent a substantial portion of the assaults from happening.'[/pullquote]The data that are available are hard to compare directly with Uber's report. San Francisco's transportation regulator tracks complaints about taxis, mainly through the city's 311 hotline. In 2017, for example, San Francisco received 14 reports of violence or physical altercations and four reports of accidents involving injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city does not separate out sexual assault complaints. And without knowing the total number of rides taken in San Francisco taxis in that year, it is impossible to calculate how often such incidents occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the 107 people killed in crashes involving an Uber vehicle in the two years covered by the report, that compares with 74,033 people in total killed in crashes on U.S. roads during that period, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber's fatality rate per mile driven was about half the national rate, according to the NHTSA, in each year of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weighing Safety and Privacy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, Uber has introduced a number of safety features, including a \"panic button\" in its app that connects passengers and drivers to emergency services, using sensors in drivers' smartphones to detect possible crashes and performing continuous background checks of drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is considering additional safety measures, including recording rides with audio or video and sharing with other ride-hailing companies the names of drivers who have been banned from its app for serious safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newest proposals raise questions about how Uber will balance the safety of passengers and drivers with their rights to privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11777002,news_11773127,news_11738380 label='Related Coverage']Sharing the names of banned drivers could help prevent a driver banned for groping, for example, from simply switching over to driving for rival Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're committed to doing that in a way that's fair and that is compliant with the law,\" West said. \"But we think it is important that if someone is not deemed to be safe on our platform that that information is shared with others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company already shares this information in Chicago, where local law requires ride-hailing apps to notify city officials when they ban a driver for reasons including complaints of sexual misconduct and physical assault. The city then passes those names on to other ride-hailing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could flag drivers who behave unsafely or inappropriately, even if their behavior does not violate the law. Allegations may not be corroborated the way they would be in a criminal case, however, and it is unclear how much information another company would require to ban a driver for behavior conducted while using a different app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is also testing audio recording in some cities in Latin America and video recording in Texas. It allows either drivers or passengers to initiate recordings. 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So don't mess with me when it comes to words like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://jwp.io/s/8ntzA5zi\">Watch the exchange\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202631185052164096\">Trump responded on Twitter\u003c/a>, saying Pelosi had \"a nervous fit.\" As to her statement that she prays for the president, Trump said, \"I don't believe her, not even close.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202631185052164096?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her earlier remarks from the Capitol on Thursday morning, Pelosi said the president \"leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit.\" She said Trump \"has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi continued, \"Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our Founders and our heart full of love for our America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairs of the House Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees have been leading the inquiry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/gKGNbvzw-HWSueGzu.html\">Watch her full announcement about moving toward articles of impeachment here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1202591921853652993?s=20\">responded to Pelosi's announcement on Twitter,\u003c/a> indicating that the White House is focused on the next stage of the impeachment process — a Senate impeachment trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1202591921853652993?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement, \"We are less than a year away from Election Day 2020 and Democrats can't possibly explain to the American people why they want to take the decision of who should be president out of the hands of voters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Pelosi has \"weakened this nation\" with her impeachment announcement, and Sen. 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