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And if the president is removed from office for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, it will set a \"dangerous\" precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo,\" said one of Trump's lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, calling the charges \"vague, indefinable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Dershowitz on the impeachment charges sent to the Senate by House Democrats: \"This is a realistic threat to all future presidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's lawyers maintain that the president was legally justified in freezing military assistance to Ukraine and that the case against Trump presented by Democrats in the Senate last week does not constitute a crime and thus cannot trigger removal from office, a notion that has received strenuous skepticism from legal scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most impeachment trial watchers on Monday, however, were following a major development that occurred outside of the Senate chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-bolton-book-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>about the alleged conversation between Trump and former National Security Adviser John Bolton — contained in a draft of the former national security adviser's book manuscript — shifted the focus to whether senators would vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, as part of the proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was based on Bolton's forthcoming book, a draft of which had been sent to the White House as part of a standard review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speculation grew about whether Republicans would support calling Bolton, Dershowitz referenced the former top Trump official and dismissed the portions of his yet-to-be-published book that have grabbed the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republican senators, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine, said Monday that the revelations about Bolton's book have made it more likely that senators will want to call Bolton to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton,\" Romney said, noting that he would make his final decision on the issue after hearing from Trump's defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1221822472292634625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tweeted\u003c/a> that the reports about Bolton's book \"strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others who are seen as more open to calling witnesses — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee — were tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander said senators will decide \"to call witnesses or other documents if we needed them after we hear all the arguments.\" Murkowski said in a tweet that while she was \"curious\" about what Bolton had to say, there is \"an appropriate time for us to evaluate whether we need additional information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Sekulow, Trump's personal attorney, argued that the president \"was at all times\" acting under his constitutional and legal authority by withholding aid to Ukraine, saying that Trump's impeachment is about \"deep policy concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the impeachment efforts against President Bill Clinton in 1998 and is now part of Trump's defense team, began his arguments by reciting a history of impeachment and declared, \"Like war, impeachment is hell.\" He said, \"It divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starr went on to accuse the House of abusing its power by approving article 2, which charges that Trump obstructed Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here, we have, tragically for the country and, I believe, tragically for the House of Representatives, in article 2 of these impeachment articles, a runaway House,\" Starr said. \"It has run away not only from its long-standing procedures — it has run away from the Constitution's demand of fundamental fairness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Trump's attorneys, Jane Raskin, spoke to defend Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer who was painted by the House managers as leading a rogue foreign policy operation by pursuing information against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, as well as pressuring to remove former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giuliani, said Raskin, was the House's \"colorful distraction,\" and, \"a shiny object designed to distract you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the \"House managers may not like his style, you may not like his style. But one might argue, that he is everything that Clarence Darrow said a defense lawyer must be, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the afternoon, Trump attorney Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, rose to attack former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter's dealings in Ukraine. The younger Biden was hired to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company Burisma at the same time his father was the Obama administration's point man in fighting corruption there. In the infamous July 25th phone call, Trump asked Ukraine's president to \"do us a favor, though\" and investigate the Bidens. The first article of impeachment charges Trump with abusing the power of his office by asking for the investigation in return for releasing nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. Trump denies any such link was made, though Bolton's book appears to undercut that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi said the younger Biden was paid $83,000 a month to sit on the Burisma board, and played a news clip in which Hunter was asked if would have been hired by the firm if his last name wasn't Biden. \"I don't know, I don't know, he responded. Probably not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Push for Witnesses\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over three days of arguments last week, House impeachment managers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799426878/trump-impeachment-recap-dems-wrap-with-exhortation-to-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlined their case\u003c/a> that Trump enlisted a foreign power to help him cheat in the 2020 election and then has tried to cover it up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/18/797600385/read-the-impeachment-managers-response-to-the-senate-impeachment-trial-summons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They've said\u003c/a> that the president's conduct is the \"worst nightmare\" of the nation's Framers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's legal team is facing a mostly sympathetic group of jurors in the Republican-controlled Senate. An acquittal on the two articles of impeachment is all but guaranteed, since the Democratic caucus would need 20 GOP members' support to have the two-thirds majority needed to convict and remove the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More up in the air, however, is whether Democrats will be able to recruit enough Republicans to call witnesses for the trial. That vote has a lower threshold than the one required to remove the president from office. At least four GOP senators would have to cross party lines to call witnesses or subpoena documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the \u003cem>Times'\u003c/em> report on Sunday, Democrats were quick to reiterate that Bolton should testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that the revelations should remove the GOP resistance against witnesses. He said details in the book provide \"further evidence that a large number of people were in the loop\" on Trump's alleged pressure campaign on Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer said there seems to be a \"giant cover-up\" within the White House and added that if Republicans don't vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, \"they are going to be part of the cover-up too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/800158076/independent-sen-angus-king-reflects-on-bolton-bombshell\">told NPR\u003c/a> on Monday that up to 10 Republican senators could vote for witnesses following the \u003cem>Times' \u003c/em>report about the Bolton manuscript.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm already hearing a number of Republicans who are moving toward voting to at least hear from John Bolton, if not other witnesses,\" he said. When asked if four Republicans would vote for witnesses, he said: \"I think there'll be more. My bold prediction will be five or 10.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the lead impeachment manager, linked testimony from Bolton to the very notion of a fair trial. \"To say we will blind ourselves from a witness who has so clearly relevant testimony to one of the central most serious allegations against the president — I don't see how we can have a fair trial without testimony like that,\" he told reporters on Monday before the White House lawyers continued their arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats had asked Bolton to testify during the impeachment inquiry but did not issue him a subpoena. The White House had ordered senior officials to not testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any vote on witnesses and new evidence would come after the defense team rests (it has up to 24 hours over three days) and after senators have a chance to ask questions in writing of both House prosecutors and Trump's legal team. The questions will be read out loud by Chief Justice John Roberts, who's presiding over the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bolton's Manuscript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>NPR has not seen a draft of the manuscript and cannot vouch for the accuracy of the report on Trump's comments to the former national security adviser. A spokesman for the National Security Council said no one at the White House other than people at the NSC had reviewed Bolton's book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ambassador Bolton's manuscript was submitted to the NSC for pre-publication review and has been under initial review by the NSC,\" NSC spokesman John Ullyot said in a statement. \"No White House personnel outside NSC have reviewed the manuscript.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump denied Bolton's account in a series of tweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1221663763138588672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said\u003c/a>. \"If John Bolton said this,\" Trump continued, \"it was only to sell a book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1221663763138588672?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military assistance and the desired investigations are at the heart of the impeachment proceedings. Democrats say Trump's actions constitute a clear case of abuse of power, with Trump placing his personal interests over the country's. The legal team representing Trump in the Senate trial argues that the president had justifiable concern about corruption in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aid was ultimately released without the inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Constitutional Standard\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/25/799535269/trump-impeachment-recap-white-house-team-vows-to-deflate-dems-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offered a brief glimpse\u003c/a> of their defense Saturday, minimizing the evidence House investigators gathered before the Democratic-led chamber impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, claimed Democrats' push to remove Trump from office is aimed at overturning the result of the 2016 election and \"tearing up [voters'] ballots\" months before the 2020 election.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Alan Dershowitz, another member of the defense team, said on \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em> that the Democratic-led prosecution does not have a case that passes constitutional muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They completely failed to meet that high constitutional standard, and therefore it would be unconstitutional to remove a president based on the allegations that were made against him,\" Dershowitz said. \"They imposed very stringent criteria for impeachment that haven't been met in this case,\" citing the Founders' standard for impeachment, which is \"treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the House passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vote for impeachment followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/771287237/trump-impeachment-inquiry-a-guide-to-key-people-facts-and-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hours of testimony\u003c/a>, in private and in public, with more than a dozen witnesses during the House impeachment inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's legal team is also expected to take aim at the president's potential political opponent, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, making the case that Trump had good reason to want Ukrainian investigators to launch criminal probes into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the activities of the Bidens in Ukraine\u003c/a>. (While Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden took a position as board member of a gas company in Ukraine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full-throated defense of Trump comes after the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office declared that the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796806517/trump-broke-the-law-in-freezing-ukraine-funds-watchdog-report-concludes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke the law\u003c/a> in ordering a hold on nearly $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Trump administration refused to participate in the House impeachment inquiry, the president's defense in the Senate is the first time Trump's team will present a lengthy rebuttal to the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Roberta Rampton and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+To+Watch+For+As+Trump%27s+Legal+Team+Resumes+Its+Impeachment+Defense&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most impeachment trial watchers on Monday, however, were following a major development that occurred outside of the Senate chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-bolton-book-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>about the alleged conversation between Trump and former National Security Adviser John Bolton — contained in a draft of the former national security adviser's book manuscript — shifted the focus to whether senators would vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, as part of the proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was based on Bolton's forthcoming book, a draft of which had been sent to the White House as part of a standard review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speculation grew about whether Republicans would support calling Bolton, Dershowitz referenced the former top Trump official and dismissed the portions of his yet-to-be-published book that have grabbed the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republican senators, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine, said Monday that the revelations about Bolton's book have made it more likely that senators will want to call Bolton to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton,\" Romney said, noting that he would make his final decision on the issue after hearing from Trump's defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1221822472292634625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tweeted\u003c/a> that the reports about Bolton's book \"strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others who are seen as more open to calling witnesses — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee — were tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander said senators will decide \"to call witnesses or other documents if we needed them after we hear all the arguments.\" Murkowski said in a tweet that while she was \"curious\" about what Bolton had to say, there is \"an appropriate time for us to evaluate whether we need additional information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Sekulow, Trump's personal attorney, argued that the president \"was at all times\" acting under his constitutional and legal authority by withholding aid to Ukraine, saying that Trump's impeachment is about \"deep policy concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the impeachment efforts against President Bill Clinton in 1998 and is now part of Trump's defense team, began his arguments by reciting a history of impeachment and declared, \"Like war, impeachment is hell.\" He said, \"It divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starr went on to accuse the House of abusing its power by approving article 2, which charges that Trump obstructed Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here, we have, tragically for the country and, I believe, tragically for the House of Representatives, in article 2 of these impeachment articles, a runaway House,\" Starr said. \"It has run away not only from its long-standing procedures — it has run away from the Constitution's demand of fundamental fairness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Trump's attorneys, Jane Raskin, spoke to defend Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer who was painted by the House managers as leading a rogue foreign policy operation by pursuing information against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, as well as pressuring to remove former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giuliani, said Raskin, was the House's \"colorful distraction,\" and, \"a shiny object designed to distract you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the \"House managers may not like his style, you may not like his style. But one might argue, that he is everything that Clarence Darrow said a defense lawyer must be, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the afternoon, Trump attorney Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, rose to attack former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter's dealings in Ukraine. The younger Biden was hired to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company Burisma at the same time his father was the Obama administration's point man in fighting corruption there. In the infamous July 25th phone call, Trump asked Ukraine's president to \"do us a favor, though\" and investigate the Bidens. The first article of impeachment charges Trump with abusing the power of his office by asking for the investigation in return for releasing nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. Trump denies any such link was made, though Bolton's book appears to undercut that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi said the younger Biden was paid $83,000 a month to sit on the Burisma board, and played a news clip in which Hunter was asked if would have been hired by the firm if his last name wasn't Biden. \"I don't know, I don't know, he responded. Probably not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Push for Witnesses\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over three days of arguments last week, House impeachment managers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799426878/trump-impeachment-recap-dems-wrap-with-exhortation-to-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlined their case\u003c/a> that Trump enlisted a foreign power to help him cheat in the 2020 election and then has tried to cover it up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/18/797600385/read-the-impeachment-managers-response-to-the-senate-impeachment-trial-summons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They've said\u003c/a> that the president's conduct is the \"worst nightmare\" of the nation's Framers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's legal team is facing a mostly sympathetic group of jurors in the Republican-controlled Senate. An acquittal on the two articles of impeachment is all but guaranteed, since the Democratic caucus would need 20 GOP members' support to have the two-thirds majority needed to convict and remove the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More up in the air, however, is whether Democrats will be able to recruit enough Republicans to call witnesses for the trial. That vote has a lower threshold than the one required to remove the president from office. At least four GOP senators would have to cross party lines to call witnesses or subpoena documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the \u003cem>Times'\u003c/em> report on Sunday, Democrats were quick to reiterate that Bolton should testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that the revelations should remove the GOP resistance against witnesses. He said details in the book provide \"further evidence that a large number of people were in the loop\" on Trump's alleged pressure campaign on Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer said there seems to be a \"giant cover-up\" within the White House and added that if Republicans don't vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, \"they are going to be part of the cover-up too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/800158076/independent-sen-angus-king-reflects-on-bolton-bombshell\">told NPR\u003c/a> on Monday that up to 10 Republican senators could vote for witnesses following the \u003cem>Times' \u003c/em>report about the Bolton manuscript.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm already hearing a number of Republicans who are moving toward voting to at least hear from John Bolton, if not other witnesses,\" he said. When asked if four Republicans would vote for witnesses, he said: \"I think there'll be more. 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A spokesman for the National Security Council said no one at the White House other than people at the NSC had reviewed Bolton's book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ambassador Bolton's manuscript was submitted to the NSC for pre-publication review and has been under initial review by the NSC,\" NSC spokesman John Ullyot said in a statement. \"No White House personnel outside NSC have reviewed the manuscript.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump denied Bolton's account in a series of tweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1221663763138588672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said\u003c/a>. \"If John Bolton said this,\" Trump continued, \"it was only to sell a book.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It was a moment he said he had prayed for during many sleepless nights after U.S. authorities sent him back to Guatemala in August 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, as he waited to board his U.S.-bound flight at the airport in Guatemala City, he said the prospect of reuniting with his daughters felt “like a miracle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel completely happy,” said Arredondo, 44. “I want to recover some of the time I lost with my daughters, with my family. All I want to do is be with them, hug them and kiss them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arredondo is one of 11 parents who will also have a chance to pursue their asylum claims in the U.S. after a federal judge in San Diego ordered the government to allow them to return. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats finished their second day of oral arguments on Thursday, contending that that President Trump's attempt to pressure Ukraine into investigations was not only an attempt to cheat in the 2020 election, but Democrats said it was also the kind of behavior the nation's founding fathers hoped to guard against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is why this president must be removed from office, especially before he continues his effort to corrupt our next election,\" said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., one of the Democrats prosecuting Trump. \"Simply stated, impeachment is the constitution's final answer to a president who mistakes himself for a king.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the night's final remarks, Rep. 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Sekulow added that Trump's legal team \"will be putting on a vigorous defense ... and rebutting what they've said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of levity, House manager Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., referred to the almost-unanimous election of New York Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter to baseball's Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope we can subpoena John Bolton, subpoena Mick Mulvaney,\" Jeffries said. \"But perhaps we can all agree to subpoena the Baseball Hall of Fame, to try to figure out who, out of 397 individuals, one person voted against Derek Jeter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's remarks on the Senate floor follow a day of presentations and arguments in which Democratic impeachment managers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797320569/with-the-rules-set-senate-trial-opening-arguments-begin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">implored skeptical Republicans\u003c/a> to buck their party's leadership and vote to remove the president for abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won,\" Schiff, who also chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In corruptly using his office to gain a political advantage and abusing the powers of that office in such a way to jeopardize our national security and the integrity of our elections, in obstructing the investigation into his own wrongdoing, the president has shown that he believes that he's above the law and scornful of constraint,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's defense team will have its turn to counter Democratic arguments and make a case for the president's acquittal when the prosecution is finished. If Democrats take up all of their allotted time, that would mean House managers would wrap up Friday and the president's defense lawyers would mount a defense starting this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, Trump called the Democrats leading his prosecution \"sleazebags\" and \"very, very dishonest people,\" and he dismissed the case built against him as \"a hoax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's so bad for the country,\" Trump said, adding: \"I'd love to go to the trial, sit in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Trump lawyer Sekulow bristled at the idea of the president pulling off such a stunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His counsel might recommend against that,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial centers on Trump's dealings with Ukraine. In particular, House prosecutors say the president dangled $391 million in congressionally approved security assistance needed to counter Russian aggression as a way to get Kyiv to announce an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. Such an announcement, House Democrats say, would benefit Trump's reelection prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's acquittal is all but certain. Democrats would need 20 GOP senators to defy their party's leadership and vote to convict in order to remove Trump from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That outcome is not likely with partisan battle lines so deeply drawn, especially in the backdrop of how Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deeply divided\u003c/a> over impeachment and with the nation watching as the political proceeding plays out ahead of a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has blocked key witnesses from participating in the trial and has not cooperated with subpoenas from House investigators. Democrats need four Republicans to join them to win a procedural battle that will enable them to request documents or witness testimony. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, Trump called the Democrats leading his prosecution \"sleazebags\" and \"very, very dishonest people,\" and he dismissed the case built against him as \"a hoax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's so bad for the country,\" Trump said, adding: \"I'd love to go to the trial, sit in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Trump lawyer Sekulow bristled at the idea of the president pulling off such a stunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His counsel might recommend against that,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial centers on Trump's dealings with Ukraine. In particular, House prosecutors say the president dangled $391 million in congressionally approved security assistance needed to counter Russian aggression as a way to get Kyiv to announce an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. Such an announcement, House Democrats say, would benefit Trump's reelection prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's acquittal is all but certain. Democrats would need 20 GOP senators to defy their party's leadership and vote to convict in order to remove Trump from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That outcome is not likely with partisan battle lines so deeply drawn, especially in the backdrop of how Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deeply divided\u003c/a> over impeachment and with the nation watching as the political proceeding plays out ahead of a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has blocked key witnesses from participating in the trial and has not cooperated with subpoenas from House investigators. Democrats need four Republicans to join them to win a procedural battle that will enable them to request documents or witness testimony. There are no indications right now that any GOP senators will break with their leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"contributors-text\">\u003cem>NPR's Brakkton Booker contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH+LIVE%3A+Democrats+Narrow+In+On+Abuse+Of+Power+In+Impeachment+Trial&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>This report includes descriptions of sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was never inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of Harvey Weinstein’s career, dark rumors of sexual assault and harassment tailed the Hollywood mega-producer. But they were rarely spoken with much volume. Only in recent years did the allegations gather the heft and momentum that culminated in this: a teeming courtroom in Manhattan where, in a matter of weeks, a judge might send Weinstein to prison for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening statements start Wednesday in Weinstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/793613868/harvey-weinstein-heads-to-trial-for-sex-crimes-in-a-metoo-landmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal trial\u003c/a>. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to the multiple sexual assault and rape charges he faces in New York state, and he has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, casting these encounters as entirely consensual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what led to this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While scores of women have accused Weinstein of crimes dating back decades—ranging from intimidation to rape—this timeline focuses on the incidents cited in criminal cases against him in Manhattan and, more recently, in Los Angeles, and the swell of popular momentum that helped drive prosecutors to press charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Timeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"annabella\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Winter 1993-94: Weinstein allegedly rapes Annabella Sciorra\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \" width=\"248\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png 248w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM-160x215.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The actress, perhaps best known for her Emmy-nominated work on \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, says Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment after an industry dinner. She says the producer dropped her off, only to reappear at her door and force his way inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sciorra’s allegation went on to become the subject of pretrial arguments in Manhattan. While the alleged incident is too old to be prosecuted under state law, and while the defense team objected to its inclusion in the trial, her testimony will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-annabella-sciorra-trial-rape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heard anyway\u003c/a>, in support of the charge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"lucia\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>June 1, 2004: Weinstein allegedly forces Lucia Evans to perform oral sex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former aspiring actress told \u003cem>The New Yorker—\u003c/em>in one of \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pair of major stories\u003c/a> that trained a national spotlight on the allegations—that Weinstein raped her in his office in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He forced me to perform oral sex on him,” Evans said, adding: “I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t.’ I tried to get away, but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. I didn’t want to kick him or fight him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her account led prosecutors to pursue a criminal sexual act charge against Weinstein, although it was dismissed in 2018. (More explanation on that \u003ca href=\"#dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"mimi\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 10, 2006: Weinstein allegedly forces himself on Mimi Haleyi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg\" alt=\"Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haleyi, a former production assistant at Weinstein’s now-bankrupt production company, says that after inviting her to his New York City home, the producer ignored her objections, pulled out her tampon and forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No woman should have to be subjected to this type of unacceptable abuse,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in 2017\u003c/a>. “Women have the right to say no. A ‘no’ is a ‘no,’ regardless of the circumstances—and I told Harvey no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haleyi’s claim was included in a \u003ca href=\"#second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second round of charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LAincidents\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Feb. 18-19, 2013: A pair of incidents in Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details have been formally released as yet about these alleged incidents, which recently prompted Los Angeles prosecutors to \u003ca href=\"#LA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">file four charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein: one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Feb. 18, 2013, Weinstein allegedly went to a hotel and raped a woman after pushing his way inside her room,” the office of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/media/news/hollywood-producer-harvey-weinstein-charged-sexually-assaulting-two-women-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained in early January\u003c/a>. “The next evening, the defendant is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel suite in Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2013: Alleged rape in New York City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, even fewer details had been released about this allegation, which prompted two of the charges against Weinstein: first- and third-degree rape. Indeed, it was not until the trial’s opening statements that prosecutors released the name of the alleged victim, Jessica Mann, and the details of her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Mann, an aspiring actress, had attended several industry events with Weinstein and endured increasingly aggressive sexual advances—including one incident in which, similar to Haleyi, Mann says Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was later, on March 18—one month after the alleged incidents in LA—that Mann says she tried to confront Weinstein at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. There, he allegedly coaxed her up to his room, forced her to disrobe and ordered her onto the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got on top of her and he raped her, forcing his penis into her vagina,” Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast told jurors on Wednesday. “Jessica just laid there. When he finished, he got off of her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 2015: New York DA decides not to prosecute allegation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, a Filipina-Italian model, reported Weinstein to the New York Police Department for allegedly groping her during a meeting at his Tribeca office. She \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-the-wire/id1487730212?i=1000459181175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says that\u003c/a> later, at the urging of police, she wore a recording device for an arranged meetup at a Manhattan hotel and that Weinstein admitted that he groped her and sought unsuccessfully to get her to come to his room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, however, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance decided not to pursue the case, saying \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/charges-filed-harvey-weinstein/story?id=30232552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the time\u003c/a> that “a criminal charge is not supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, after the publication of a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> piece \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailing Gutierrez’s allegations\u003c/a>, her story would become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/times-up-sexual-assault-cuomo-weinstein-cyrus-vance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">focus of intense criticism\u003c/a> leveled at Vance, whose office is now responsible for prosecuting the criminal trial. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requested a review\u003c/a> of the DA’s decision in 2015, though it’s not clear whether that was ever completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2017: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The New York Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> publishes allegations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436.jpg\" alt=\"Rose McGowan speaks to the media outside court on January 6, 2020, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose McGowan speaks to the media outside court on January 6, 2020, New York City. \u003ccite>(Kena Betancur/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While rumors of sexual harassment and assault had long dogged Weinstein—even supplying \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-seth-macfarlane-reveals-truth-about-his-1507755303-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punchlines at the Oscars\u003c/a>—but it wasn’t until the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> published exposés that the allegations found serious traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times’ story\u003c/a>, written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, focused on allegations by a series of assistants and actresses, such as Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein, in a statement released \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/us/statement-from-harvey-weinstein.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that same day\u003c/a>, pledged to take a leave of absence and acknowledged that “I have a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I so respect all women and regret what happened,” he said, without admitting wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"nyer\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Oct. 10, 2017: The \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>New Yorker\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> publishes more allegations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published just days after the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> article, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">journalist Ronan Farrow’s piece\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> focused on a slew of other accusations—including the allegation by Lucia Evans that had been included in and but was later dropped from the list of criminal charges Weinstein faces in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 14, 2017: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/14/557790894/weinstein-expelled-from-the-academy-of-motion-pictures-arts-and-sciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>is expelled\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> from the Academy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the first signs that the reaction to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reports represented a sea change, complete with real-world implications for Weinstein, the Hollywood producer is expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the influential organization responsible for the Oscars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues,” the academy’s 54-member Board of Governors explained in a statement after an emergency meeting, “but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2018: The Weinstein Company \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/595089301/the-weinstein-co-files-for-bankruptcy-cancels-non-disclosure-agreements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>files for bankruptcy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffeted by months of negative press, the production company that Weinstein founded with his brother, Bob, goes belly up. The company declares bankruptcy and sells “substantially all” of its assets to Lantern Capital Partners, and it also voids the nondisclosure agreements it had reached with Weinstein’s accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>May 25, 2018: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614339339/harvey-weinstein-surrenders-to-authorities-on-sexual-assault-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>surrenders to police\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former producer arrives at the New York Police Department’s 1st Precinct in Lower Manhattan, where he submits to arrest with droves of journalists looking on. It is Weinstein’s first arrest in connection with the sexual assault allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. submits Weinstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanda.org/district-attorney-vance-announces-criminal-charges-against-harvey-weinstein/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial slate of charges\u003c/a>: “The defendant is charged with Rape in the First and Third Degrees, as well as Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, for forcible sexual acts against two women in 2013 and 2004, respectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week and a half later, Weinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/617095337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleads not guilty\u003c/a> to the charges, which will later change significantly as new information comes to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"second\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 2, 2018: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/625330563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Additional charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> against Weinstein announced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manhattan DA Vance \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanda.org/district-attorney-vance-announces-additional-charges-against-harvey-weinstein-including-predatory-sexual-assault/\">announces the filing\u003c/a> of a superseding grand jury indictment, which adds charges connected with a third incident in 2006. The new slate includes one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree and two counts of predatory sexual assault, the most serious charge levied against Weinstein by New York City prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#mimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mimi Haleyi\u003c/a>, who was involved in the alleged 2006 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had come forward\u003c/a> with her story more than half a year earlier, saying that during her time working at The Weinstein Company, Weinstein orally forced himself on her in his New York City home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein pleads not guilty to the new charges a week after they are announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"dismissed\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2018: One charge against Weinstein is dismissed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) hold a news conference and demonstration outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, October 13.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) hold a news conference and demonstration outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, October 13. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Justice James Burke, the judge overseeing the Manhattan trial, dismissed one of the charges against the producer after it came to light that investigators didn’t properly present certain information to the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Evans told the grand jury—and the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em>—that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him. But an unidentified friend of hers had contradicted that account in an interview with a detective, saying Evans called it a consensual act in exchange for the promise of acting work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors acknowledged later that the detective “failed to inform” them of “important details” of the interview prior to Evans’ grand jury testimony. Weinstein’s legal team pushed to have the criminal sexual act charge dismissed as a result, and prosecutors did not object.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 11, 2019: The Weinstein Company strikes \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/787306873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>tentative deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> with alleged victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein and his now-bankrupt production company reach a tentative $47 million settlement to discharge their financial obligations. The deal contains $25 million earmarked for Weinstein’s alleged victims, including more than 30 actresses and former employees. It does not, however, require an admission of wrongdoing or any personal payments from Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not a done deal, though: A judge still needs to sign off on the agreement for it to become final. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726499228/wsj-harvey-weinstein-reaches-44-million-deal-over-sexual-misconduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous attempts\u003c/a> have fallen through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 6, 2020: Trial in New York City begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s trial formally opens in Manhattan, with more than two weeks devoted to selecting a jury. After roughly a year and a half of pretrial wrangling, the charges Weinstein faces are as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Two counts of predatory sexual assault\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of rape in the first degree (connected to the 2013 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of rape in the third degree (2013 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of criminal sexual act in the first degree (2006 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the most serious crime on that list, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>, Weinstein faces the possibility of spending the rest of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/70.00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LA\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Jan. 6, 2020: Los Angeles prosecutors announce \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/794012813/harvey-weinstein-is-charged-with-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-as-n-y-trial-begi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>charges of their own\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day that his trial opens in Manhattan, Weinstein is hit with new legal woes from the other side of the U.S.: \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/sites/default/files/press/010620_Hollywood_Producer_Harvey_Weinstein_Charged_With_Sexually_Assaulting_Two_Women_in_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four felony counts of sexual assault\u003c/a>, filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Lacey. The charges are connected with incidents that allegedly happened at local hotels over \u003ca href=\"#laincidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two nights in February 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the evidence will show that the defendant used his power and influence to gain access to his victims,” Lacey says, “and then commit violent crimes against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Harvey+Weinstein+Trial%3A+A+Brief+Timeline+Of+How+We+Got+Here&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what led to this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While scores of women have accused Weinstein of crimes dating back decades—ranging from intimidation to rape—this timeline focuses on the incidents cited in criminal cases against him in Manhattan and, more recently, in Los Angeles, and the swell of popular momentum that helped drive prosecutors to press charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Timeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"annabella\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Winter 1993-94: Weinstein allegedly rapes Annabella Sciorra\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \" width=\"248\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png 248w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM-160x215.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The actress, perhaps best known for her Emmy-nominated work on \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, says Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment after an industry dinner. She says the producer dropped her off, only to reappear at her door and force his way inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sciorra’s allegation went on to become the subject of pretrial arguments in Manhattan. While the alleged incident is too old to be prosecuted under state law, and while the defense team objected to its inclusion in the trial, her testimony will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-annabella-sciorra-trial-rape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heard anyway\u003c/a>, in support of the charge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"lucia\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>June 1, 2004: Weinstein allegedly forces Lucia Evans to perform oral sex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former aspiring actress told \u003cem>The New Yorker—\u003c/em>in one of \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pair of major stories\u003c/a> that trained a national spotlight on the allegations—that Weinstein raped her in his office in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He forced me to perform oral sex on him,” Evans said, adding: “I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t.’ I tried to get away, but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. I didn’t want to kick him or fight him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her account led prosecutors to pursue a criminal sexual act charge against Weinstein, although it was dismissed in 2018. (More explanation on that \u003ca href=\"#dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"mimi\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 10, 2006: Weinstein allegedly forces himself on Mimi Haleyi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg\" alt=\"Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haleyi, a former production assistant at Weinstein’s now-bankrupt production company, says that after inviting her to his New York City home, the producer ignored her objections, pulled out her tampon and forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No woman should have to be subjected to this type of unacceptable abuse,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in 2017\u003c/a>. “Women have the right to say no. A ‘no’ is a ‘no,’ regardless of the circumstances—and I told Harvey no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haleyi’s claim was included in a \u003ca href=\"#second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second round of charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LAincidents\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Feb. 18-19, 2013: A pair of incidents in Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details have been formally released as yet about these alleged incidents, which recently prompted Los Angeles prosecutors to \u003ca href=\"#LA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">file four charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein: one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Feb. 18, 2013, Weinstein allegedly went to a hotel and raped a woman after pushing his way inside her room,” the office of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/media/news/hollywood-producer-harvey-weinstein-charged-sexually-assaulting-two-women-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained in early January\u003c/a>. “The next evening, the defendant is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel suite in Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2013: Alleged rape in New York City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, even fewer details had been released about this allegation, which prompted two of the charges against Weinstein: first- and third-degree rape. Indeed, it was not until the trial’s opening statements that prosecutors released the name of the alleged victim, Jessica Mann, and the details of her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Mann, an aspiring actress, had attended several industry events with Weinstein and endured increasingly aggressive sexual advances—including one incident in which, similar to Haleyi, Mann says Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was later, on March 18—one month after the alleged incidents in LA—that Mann says she tried to confront Weinstein at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. There, he allegedly coaxed her up to his room, forced her to disrobe and ordered her onto the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got on top of her and he raped her, forcing his penis into her vagina,” Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast told jurors on Wednesday. “Jessica just laid there. When he finished, he got off of her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 2015: New York DA decides not to prosecute allegation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, a Filipina-Italian model, reported Weinstein to the New York Police Department for allegedly groping her during a meeting at his Tribeca office. She \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-the-wire/id1487730212?i=1000459181175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says that\u003c/a> later, at the urging of police, she wore a recording device for an arranged meetup at a Manhattan hotel and that Weinstein admitted that he groped her and sought unsuccessfully to get her to come to his room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, however, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance decided not to pursue the case, saying \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/charges-filed-harvey-weinstein/story?id=30232552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the time\u003c/a> that “a criminal charge is not supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, after the publication of a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> piece \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailing Gutierrez’s allegations\u003c/a>, her story would become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/times-up-sexual-assault-cuomo-weinstein-cyrus-vance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">focus of intense criticism\u003c/a> leveled at Vance, whose office is now responsible for prosecuting the criminal trial. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requested a review\u003c/a> of the DA’s decision in 2015, though it’s not clear whether that was ever completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2017: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The New York Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> publishes allegations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436.jpg\" alt=\"Rose McGowan speaks to the media outside court on January 6, 2020, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose McGowan speaks to the media outside court on January 6, 2020, New York City. \u003ccite>(Kena Betancur/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While rumors of sexual harassment and assault had long dogged Weinstein—even supplying \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-seth-macfarlane-reveals-truth-about-his-1507755303-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punchlines at the Oscars\u003c/a>—but it wasn’t until the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> published exposés that the allegations found serious traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times’ story\u003c/a>, written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, focused on allegations by a series of assistants and actresses, such as Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein, in a statement released \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/us/statement-from-harvey-weinstein.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that same day\u003c/a>, pledged to take a leave of absence and acknowledged that “I have a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I so respect all women and regret what happened,” he said, without admitting wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"nyer\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Oct. 10, 2017: The \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>New Yorker\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> publishes more allegations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published just days after the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> article, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">journalist Ronan Farrow’s piece\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> focused on a slew of other accusations—including the allegation by Lucia Evans that had been included in and but was later dropped from the list of criminal charges Weinstein faces in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 14, 2017: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/14/557790894/weinstein-expelled-from-the-academy-of-motion-pictures-arts-and-sciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>is expelled\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> from the Academy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the first signs that the reaction to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reports represented a sea change, complete with real-world implications for Weinstein, the Hollywood producer is expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the influential organization responsible for the Oscars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues,” the academy’s 54-member Board of Governors explained in a statement after an emergency meeting, “but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2018: The Weinstein Company \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/595089301/the-weinstein-co-files-for-bankruptcy-cancels-non-disclosure-agreements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>files for bankruptcy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffeted by months of negative press, the production company that Weinstein founded with his brother, Bob, goes belly up. The company declares bankruptcy and sells “substantially all” of its assets to Lantern Capital Partners, and it also voids the nondisclosure agreements it had reached with Weinstein’s accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>May 25, 2018: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614339339/harvey-weinstein-surrenders-to-authorities-on-sexual-assault-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>surrenders to police\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former producer arrives at the New York Police Department’s 1st Precinct in Lower Manhattan, where he submits to arrest with droves of journalists looking on. It is Weinstein’s first arrest in connection with the sexual assault allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. submits Weinstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanda.org/district-attorney-vance-announces-criminal-charges-against-harvey-weinstein/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial slate of charges\u003c/a>: “The defendant is charged with Rape in the First and Third Degrees, as well as Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, for forcible sexual acts against two women in 2013 and 2004, respectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week and a half later, Weinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/617095337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleads not guilty\u003c/a> to the charges, which will later change significantly as new information comes to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"second\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 2, 2018: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/625330563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Additional charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> against Weinstein announced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manhattan DA Vance \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanda.org/district-attorney-vance-announces-additional-charges-against-harvey-weinstein-including-predatory-sexual-assault/\">announces the filing\u003c/a> of a superseding grand jury indictment, which adds charges connected with a third incident in 2006. The new slate includes one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree and two counts of predatory sexual assault, the most serious charge levied against Weinstein by New York City prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#mimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mimi Haleyi\u003c/a>, who was involved in the alleged 2006 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had come forward\u003c/a> with her story more than half a year earlier, saying that during her time working at The Weinstein Company, Weinstein orally forced himself on her in his New York City home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein pleads not guilty to the new charges a week after they are announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"dismissed\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2018: One charge against Weinstein is dismissed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) hold a news conference and demonstration outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, October 13.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) hold a news conference and demonstration outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, October 13. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Justice James Burke, the judge overseeing the Manhattan trial, dismissed one of the charges against the producer after it came to light that investigators didn’t properly present certain information to the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Evans told the grand jury—and the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em>—that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him. But an unidentified friend of hers had contradicted that account in an interview with a detective, saying Evans called it a consensual act in exchange for the promise of acting work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors acknowledged later that the detective “failed to inform” them of “important details” of the interview prior to Evans’ grand jury testimony. Weinstein’s legal team pushed to have the criminal sexual act charge dismissed as a result, and prosecutors did not object.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 11, 2019: The Weinstein Company strikes \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/787306873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>tentative deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> with alleged victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein and his now-bankrupt production company reach a tentative $47 million settlement to discharge their financial obligations. The deal contains $25 million earmarked for Weinstein’s alleged victims, including more than 30 actresses and former employees. It does not, however, require an admission of wrongdoing or any personal payments from Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not a done deal, though: A judge still needs to sign off on the agreement for it to become final. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726499228/wsj-harvey-weinstein-reaches-44-million-deal-over-sexual-misconduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous attempts\u003c/a> have fallen through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 6, 2020: Trial in New York City begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s trial formally opens in Manhattan, with more than two weeks devoted to selecting a jury. After roughly a year and a half of pretrial wrangling, the charges Weinstein faces are as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Two counts of predatory sexual assault\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of rape in the first degree (connected to the 2013 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of rape in the third degree (2013 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of criminal sexual act in the first degree (2006 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the most serious crime on that list, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>, Weinstein faces the possibility of spending the rest of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/70.00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LA\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Jan. 6, 2020: Los Angeles prosecutors announce \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/794012813/harvey-weinstein-is-charged-with-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-as-n-y-trial-begi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>charges of their own\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day that his trial opens in Manhattan, Weinstein is hit with new legal woes from the other side of the U.S.: \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/sites/default/files/press/010620_Hollywood_Producer_Harvey_Weinstein_Charged_With_Sexually_Assaulting_Two_Women_in_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four felony counts of sexual assault\u003c/a>, filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Lacey. The charges are connected with incidents that allegedly happened at local hotels over \u003ca href=\"#laincidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two nights in February 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:51 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats concluded on Wednesday the first of three days of opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, arguing that the president must be removed from office for abusing his office and obstructing Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing remarks, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is leading the prosecution of the president, reminded the chamber of the career civil servants and foreign service officers who sometimes defied orders from the White House not to appear in order to testify about the president's pressure campaign on Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some courageous people came forward. Courageous people that risked their entire careers,\" Schiff said. \"They risked everything, their careers. And yes I know what you're asked to decide may risk yours, too. But if they could show the courage, so could we.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial will resume at 1 p.m. on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1auW9m_Oxbs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff recalled the nation's founders who devised of impeachment as way to check an executive who abused the office for personal gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They knew what it was like to like under a despot, and they risked their lives to be free of it. They knew they were creating an enormously powerful executive, and they knew they needed to constrain it,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump is not removed from office, Schiff argued during his opening remarks, the president's actions \"will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government—inviting future presidents to operate as if they are also beyond the reach of accountability, congressional oversight and the law,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I recognize that there will be times during the trial that you may long to return to the business of the Senate,\" Schiff said. \"The American people look forward to the same. But not before you decide what kind of democracy you believe we ought to be and what the American people have a right to expect in the conduct of their president.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Trump's acquittal is all but certain, since Democrats do not have the votes to convict, both sides continue to spar over the production of evidence, and additional witness testimony, that the White House has blocked investigators from reviewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A two-thirds vote (67 votes) is required to convict the president, meaning Democrats would need 20 GOP senators to defy Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order to call additional witnesses, like former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Democrats only need four Republicans to join them, yet there are no indications right now they will be able to convince any GOP Senators to break with their leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Schiff on Wednesday made the case for evidence to be brought into the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, notes from first-hand witnesses who listened in on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 25 call\u003c/a> between Trump and the Ukrainian president would help further establish the take-away from the call, perhaps resolve disputes over whether the \"favor\" Trump sought was part of a quid-pro-quo scheme, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In any courtroom in America holding a fair trial, you would want to see contemporaneous notes. This Senate should be no different. Demand those notes. Demand to see the truth,\" he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Davos, Switzerland, where Trump was attending the World Economic Forum meeting, Trump re-emphasized his view that the impeachment case against him is a \"hoax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's so bad for the country,\" he said, adding: \"I'd love to go to the trial, sit in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Sekulow, President Trump's private attorney and part of Trump's impeachment defense team told reporters Wednesday that the president's legal team would not support Trump showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His counsel might recommend against that,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sekulow said Trump's defense will come in two parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to respond of course to what the House managers put forward. 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The charged that Trump withheld nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine in order to pressure that country's president to open an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden's involvement in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that Trump obstructed Congress by refusing to turn over documents or to allow witnesses to testify in their investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The managers showed video clips from the House impeachment hearings, from Fox News interviews with presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani and of the president himself, including one during the 2016 campaign, when he invited Russia — \"if you're listening\" — to find Hillary Clinton's emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also continued to call for witnesses to appear before the Senate, including former national security adviser John Bolton. That issue was at the core of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/797320215/senate-impeachment-trial-begins-with-fight-over-rules\">debate over the trial ground rules\u003c/a> on Tuesday — a fight that stretched to nearly 2 a.m. ET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump also cited \"national security\" for why he has reservations about testimony from some witnesses Democrats are seeking, such as Bolton. Trump said that Bolton knows too much about his personal conversations with other world leaders and that revealing them in any testimony could hurt the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if we left on the best of terms, probably not, and you don't want someone testifying who didn't leave on the best of terms,\" Trump said of Bolton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/724363700/trump-fires-john-bolton-in-final-break-after-months-of-policy-divisions\">who was fired in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is still possible but unclear whether the Senate will hear witnesses after the two sides have made their opening arguments. A number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798317525/trump-impeachment-trial-recap-republicans-balk-at-mcconnell-over-session-rules\">GOP senators have expressed support\u003c/a> for hearing from some witnesses. It would take four Republican senators voting with the 47-member Democratic caucus to call for witnesses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:51 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats concluded on Wednesday the first of three days of opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, arguing that the president must be removed from office for abusing his office and obstructing Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing remarks, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is leading the prosecution of the president, reminded the chamber of the career civil servants and foreign service officers who sometimes defied orders from the White House not to appear in order to testify about the president's pressure campaign on Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some courageous people came forward. Courageous people that risked their entire careers,\" Schiff said. \"They risked everything, their careers. And yes I know what you're asked to decide may risk yours, too. But if they could show the courage, so could we.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial will resume at 1 p.m. on Thursday.\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/1auW9m_Oxbs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1auW9m_Oxbs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Schiff recalled the nation's founders who devised of impeachment as way to check an executive who abused the office for personal gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They knew what it was like to like under a despot, and they risked their lives to be free of it. They knew they were creating an enormously powerful executive, and they knew they needed to constrain it,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump is not removed from office, Schiff argued during his opening remarks, the president's actions \"will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government—inviting future presidents to operate as if they are also beyond the reach of accountability, congressional oversight and the law,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I recognize that there will be times during the trial that you may long to return to the business of the Senate,\" Schiff said. \"The American people look forward to the same. 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"content": "\u003cp>Less than a mile from a West Oakland house that a group of mothers, widely known as Moms 4 Housing, occupied in protest against real estate speculation sits another house, another mom with a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gayla Newsome was among the first East Bay residents to begin fighting foreclosures during the financial mortgage crisis with the help of community activist groups which put pressure on banks. They also used some of the same protest tactics that unfolded over the last two months with the Moms 4 Housing group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That coalition of homeless and marginally housed mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced a major victory on Monday\u003c/a> following their high-profile, months-long occupation of a vacant West Oakland home. 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Newsome was given four hours to collect all her belongings that were locked inside. Most of her things ended up left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a motel with her daughters in Silicon Valley, where she worked as a technology salesperson. 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The constant battle with law enforcement took its toll. Newsome ended up having to take time off work because of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Moms 4 Housing, the movement around Newsome’s home swelled with supporters, eager to act as eviction defense when the sheriff showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever anybody — a mayor, law enforcement, homeowner's association — if anybody like that showed up, somebody hit the phone tree,” she said. “And there was like a human barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And organizers began to take on the banks. For two hours, they shut down the branch of Chase Bank in downtown Oakland where Newsome had her mortgage. Activists flew to San Diego to protest outside the office of Residential Capital Mortgage Income Fund, the second lender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome made her own personal plea to the CEO of that lender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put it all in a letter to him to explain my total situation,” Newsome said. “And when I wrote him the personal letter, they took the second loan off basically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually got the deed back and is once again the rightful owner of her house. But she said the fight was bigger than just her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is for my entire West Oakland community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"moms-4-housing\" label=\"Moms 4 housing\"]Newsome pointed out other homes on her block that neighbors have lost to foreclosure, many of them in the same complex she lives in. Sometimes she doesn’t even realize it's happened until they're gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who used to live in Oakland, they can't afford to even rent on this block,” let alone be a homeowner, Newsome said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As gentrification has crossed the bay, Newsome has seen her black and brown neighbors priced out of a changing Oakland. Her own house increased in value by more than four times its original sale price. It’s now estimated on Zillow to be worth just under $700,000. Most of the other homes on her block are going for even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a million-dollar block now,\" Newsome said. \"And that's what's going on in this community. That's what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome has been following the Moms 4 Housing story closely. Earlier this month, she met the moms shortly before they were evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said while their stories aren't identical, they strike a similar chord. 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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ultimately moved the process forward without the assurances Democrats sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell needed a simple majority — 51 votes — to approve his resolution laying out how much time House impeachment managers and the president's defense team will get to make their arguments. The Republicans hold 53 seats in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell called the resolution \"a fair road map,\" that closely tracks precedents. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the rules \"completely partisan.\" He said McConnell's resolution seems \"designed by President Trump for President Trump.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell said he would move to table any Democratic amendments to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Tuesday afternoon and into the night, he did just that. He called for a vote to table, or kill, several amendments proposed by Schumer that would have subpoenaed records of communications related to White House officials, National Security Council personnel and other Trump administration officials who have direct knowledge of \"key events in question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments were killed on party-line 53-47 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Trial Timeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>McConnell maintains that he based his plan on the rules for the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999, with each side getting 24 hours. In a last-minute change, McConnell called for the 24 hours to be divided over three days, rather than two as \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6662609-McConnell-Organizing-Resolution-for-Senate-Trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he originally proposed\u003c/a>. That would address one Democratic complaint — that a two-day limit would force the session to last long into the night, since the trial days do not start until 1 p.m. ET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell also altered the rules for admitting the House evidence into the record. It is now automatically part of the record, rather than senators having to vote to include it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, these were not only concerns for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokeswoman for Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, \"Senator Collins and others raised concerns about the 24 hours of opening statements in 2 days and the admission of the House transcript in the record. Her position has been that the trial should follow the Clinton model as much as possible. She thinks these changes are a significant improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Will There be Witnesses?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The resolution also delineates how much time senators will get for written questions, and it postpones the debate and vote over whether to call witnesses until after both sides have made their presentations and address questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House impeachment manager Adam Schiff, D-Calif., also argued against the rules resolution, while calling on the Senate to allow testimony from new witnesses. He played senators a tape of Trump saying he would \"love\" to hear testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and others (even though White House officials have so far been barred from testifying).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Senate Republicans like Sen. 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Meanwhile, state lawmakers are floating possible work-arounds that could blunt the edge of the federal cuts.\u003cbr>\nHere’s what you need to know about the federal food stamp cuts, the lawsuit and how California is preparing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/3451afa1-8943-46f2-8ed7-eba91aab4cc3?src=embed\" title=\"calfresh_trump_cuts\" width=\"550\" height=\"968\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Exactly Does the Rule Do?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under current federal law, able-bodied adults under the age of 50 with no dependent children must either be working at least 20 hours a week or in vocational training to get food stamps consistently. 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The Trump administration did not adequately assess the impact of the rule, or how to mitigate its effects, the suit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the states argue that the rule defies long-standing policy and the original intent of the work requirement law by eliminating the states’ ability to decide whether childless adults must work given local labor markets conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Rule unequivocally runs afoul of Congress’s intent to ensure food security for low-income individuals and to permit States, who have a better understanding of their labor markets and economic conditions, to apply for waivers and use exemptions where local or individual circumstances warrant relief,” the lawsuit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Would be Most Affected?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the first year, more than 55,000 Californians are expected to lose the benefit, according to Becerra’s office, which amounts to more than $100 million in lost benefits. The lawsuit claims that women and people of color would be most affected because they face higher barriers to employment.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" Angela Shing, Deputy Director of Santa Clara County Social Services Agency\"]‘I want people to make sure that if they’re in need that they’re coming to the agency and that we are here to serve. And I fear that many of these new rules and changes that are coming out are negatively impacting our ability to do that.’[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/data/#/?subject=underemp&r=*\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National underemployment data\u003c/a> reveals who might be at risk. Black adults are nearly twice as likely as their white counterparts to be out of a job or working part-time even though they’d prefer a full-time schedule. Hispanics, people without a high school degree and adults under 24 also face high rates of underemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups at risk of losing their food stamps include people experiencing homelessness, veterans, people recently out of jail or prison and former foster youth, according to Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, having to provide proof of working 20 hours per week may become a roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will have to go through a lot of hurdles to verify eligibility,” Bartholow said. “A lot of people don’t work in places that regularly provide a printed time-sheet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Other Food Stamp Cuts?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is the first of three Trump proposals to cut food stamps. All are part of a broader set of policies aimed at reducing the country’s social safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another food stamp proposal would restrict the ability of states to raise the eligibility limit on income and assets, as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-trump-food-stamp-cuts-poverty-income-inequality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California has done\u003c/a>. The other would set a national standard for deducting utility costs from a household budget to determine food stamp eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all three rules go into effect, an estimated 3.7 million Americans, including about 625,700 Californians, would lose food stamps, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/101368/estimated_effect_of_recent_proposed_changes_to_snap_regulations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Institute study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How is the State Getting Ready for the Rule?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and county officials are reaching out to all recipients subject to the new requirements, alerting them of the change and getting as many as possible into local employment and training programs. Through those programs, affected adults can keep their CalFresh benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County got a head start. Though it lost its waiver in late 2018, the Social Services Agency used banked exemptions to avoid having to cut anyone off food stamps. In the meantime, the agency has enrolled hundreds in employment programs. But the work ahead is still daunting: More than 600 residents could lose CalFresh this year if they don’t start working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Director Angela Shing says she worries that the various federal proposals to cut food stamps are causing people to lose faith in her agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want people to make sure that if they’re in need that they’re coming to the agency and that we are here to serve,” said Shing. “And I fear that many of these new rules and changes that are coming out are negatively impacting our ability to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Else Could the State Do?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers and advisors to the governor are exploring ways that the state could provide a bandaid if the rule survives the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"food-stamps\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003cbr>\nFor the first few months, the state plans to shield people from the new requirements using a backlog of month-long exemptions to the work requirement that the state has been banking. Under the new rule, those exemptions will disappear in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One solution is to use state funds to provide food stamps. That’s the idea behind a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1022\">bill\u003c/a> introduced last year by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, a Democrat from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be pricey. The state estimates it could lose as much as $400 million in federal funding for CalFresh if all three of the proposed food stamp rules go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is not in a position to backfill directly the federal contributions by writing a $400 million check,” Governor Gavin Newsom said last week. But, he added, his administration is looking at ways “to significantly minimize” that cost. He said he had put $20 million for food banks in his proposed budget as a “placeholder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>All eyes will be on the courts. 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"content": "\u003cp>The House Judiciary Committee has stepped up an investigation into a Trump administration policy that has forced more than 57,000 asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico potentially for months — often in extremely dangerous regions — while their claims are processed in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year-old policy, officially called \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/01/24/migrant-protection-protocols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Migrant Protection Protocols\u003c/a>, or MPP, is one of a series of moves by administration officials to fundamentally restructure this country’s asylum system and drastically restrict access to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/judiciary_objections_to_mpp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked \u003c/a>the Department of Homeland Security to turn over documents about how the program, known informally as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, is being implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who chairs the Judiciary’s immigration subcommittee, said the administration is trampling the rights of asylum-seekers and making the protections unattainable for people with legitimate claims. Meanwhile, women, children and other vulnerable migrants are being “preyed upon by gangs and criminals” as they wait in Mexico, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current situation is really appalling,” said Lofgren. “The administration is acting without regard to what the law requires ... it's important to note that seeking asylum is provided for under law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, anyone who reaches the U.S. and can make a case that they face persecution at home has a right to claim protection, regardless of whether they come to an official port of entry or enter the country without authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Ian Philabaum, director of border programs at Innovation Law Lab\"]'Thousands and thousands of people in Mexico, along the U.S.-Mexico border, are living on the streets, switching shelter to shelter every couple of days … struggling to feed their children.'[/pullquote]Among other things, Lofgren and her colleagues are requesting information on cases where border authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/794587498/this-migrant-won-in-immigration-court-and-the-u-s-sent-him-to-mexico-anyway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned people to Mexico\u003c/a> even after they were granted asylum by a U.S. immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressional inquiry comes nearly a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689819928/trump-administration-begins-remain-in-mexico-policy-sending-asylum-seekers-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first person\u003c/a> was returned to Mexico under MPP. On Jan. 29, 2019, a Honduran man, Carlos Catarlo Gomez, was sent to Tijuana to wait for an assigned court date in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump administration officials say MPP is preventing migrants from “gaming” the asylum system for economic opportunity in the U.S. Officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/assessment_of_the_migrant_protection_protocols_mpp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue \u003c/a>the policy has helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduce \u003c/a>unauthorized immigration in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MPP has been and will continue to be an effective tool to address the ongoing crisis at the southwest border,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy has transformed how U.S. authorities process asylum-seekers who are not Mexican nationals at the southern border. If they pass an initial screening, adults requesting asylum are now given a notice for a hearing in a U.S. immigration court, with instructions to appear at the port of entry to be transported to the courthouse. Then they are turned back to the Mexican side of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Department of Homeland Security\"]'MPP has been and will continue to be an effective tool to address the ongoing crisis at the southwest border.'[/pullquote]As many as 20,000 people are currently sheltered in northern Mexico awaiting entry into the U.S., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The U.S. State Department has issued safety advisories for five of the six Mexican states along the border, warning people to reconsider travel or not to travel at all, due to violent crime and gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many asylum-seekers coming through Mexico are Central Americans with children, and they often lack resources and become victims of extortion, kidnapping and other crimes, legal advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands and thousands of people in Mexico, along the U.S.-Mexico border, are living on the streets, switching shelter to shelter every couple of days … struggling to feed their children,” said Ian Philabaum, director of border programs at Innovation Law Lab. “More often than not, people are forced to discontinue their court proceedings because of the violence they are subjected to or because their children are sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovation Law Lab is one of several legal aid groups in California that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726721/bay-area-legal-groups-challenge-trumps-remain-in-mexico-asylum-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued \u003c/a>the Trump administration last year to block the Remain in Mexico program, and a federal judge in San Francisco initially halted it. But last May, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the program to continue while the case is litigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, asylum-seekers who passed “credible fear” screenings waited in the U.S. while their cases were decided, often released into the community. That gave people a chance to get legal support and prepare their cases, as well as reconnect with relatives in this country, said Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for migrants in Mexico, who typically live in shelters or on the street, it’s “nearly impossible” to find U.S. immigration attorneys, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Lindsay Toczylowski executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center\"]'They've created a system that's not designed to adjudicate claims but is designed just to deny people the right to asylum.'[/pullquote]Toczylowski said those in the MPP program with cases pending in the San Diego immigration court are typically summoned at 4 a.m. to the U.S. port of entry in Tijuana to be processed by CBP and then bused to the court. Some of her clients must travel hours from surrounding Mexican cities in the middle of the night to make those appointments, often with small children in tow, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've created a system that's not designed to adjudicate claims but is designed just to deny people the right to asylum,” Toczylowski said. “It's designed to make sure that people are in no condition and have no ability to actually defend themselves in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal representation is key to winning asylum, data shows, but the vast majority of asylum-seekers returned to Mexico don’t have an attorney. So far, 117 people in the program — or about 0.2% — have been granted relief, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/mpp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> researchers at Syracuse University. Last year, asylum was granted in roughly \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asylum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30%\u003c/a> of all cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under U.S. law, non-citizens are eligible for asylum if they have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jessica Vaughan, Center for Immigration Studies\"]'(Remain in Mexico) removes the incentives that people had to leave their homes and pay a smuggler to come on this dangerous journey … hoping that they would be released into the United States.'[/pullquote]Most of the people arrested last year by Border Patrol agents are Central American families. Many say they are fleeing violence in their home countries and that their governments can’t protect them. The so-called “Northern Triangle” of Central America — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — is one of the world’s most dangerous regions outside a war zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who favor reducing immigration have applauded the MPP program. Jessica Vaughan, who directs policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the adoption of Remain in Mexico has been a “major improvement” in the U.S. asylum system. Her group had recommended such a change for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It removes the incentives that people had to leave their homes and pay a smuggler to come on this dangerous journey … hoping that they would be released into the United States,” said Vaughan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that people in the program have a shorter wait for their claims to be decided, compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/588/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three years\u003c/a> on average it takes for an immigration judge to rule on other asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department, which oversees U.S. immigration courts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11770865/san-diego-judges-told-to-speed-up-cases-under-controversial-immigration-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told \u003c/a>judges in San Diego, El Paso and other border cities to prioritize “Remain in Mexico” cases. Hearings are scheduled within two to four months, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/assessment_of_the_migrant_protection_protocols_mpp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> a DHS report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"asylum\"]International law prohibits the U.S. from returning people to countries where they fear persecution or torture. Under the MPP, asylum-seekers who express such a fear about Mexico are entitled to an interview to make a case to stay in the U.S. while their cases are decided. But immigration attorneys have said the government was barring them from attending those interviews with their clients. This week, a federal judge in San Diego \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusandiego.org/judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-in-mpp-suit-rules-asylum-seekers-forced-into-mpp-must-have-access-to-lawyers-for-fear-of-return-to-mexico-interviews/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruled \u003c/a>that all asylum-seekers in the program must have access to legal representation before and during those interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Remain in Mexico program is one of several steps the Trump administration has taken to restrict asylum. Others include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— On Nov. 9, 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-addressing-mass-migration-southern-border-united-states/?utm_source=CLINIC+Mail&utm_campaign=92bfd1c04c-press_release_11_9_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a33179621a-92bfd1c04c-284025717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presidential proclamation\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/09/2018-24594/aliens-subject-to-a-bar-on-entry-under-certain-presidential-proclamations-procedures-for-protection?utm_source=CLINIC+Mail&utm_campaign=92bfd1c04c-press_release_11_9_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a33179621a-92bfd1c04c-284025717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal rule\u003c/a> barred people from applying for asylum if they did not come to the U.S. through an official port of entry. Federal courts blocked implementation of this rule. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is considering the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— On July 16, 2019, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/16/2019-15246/asylum-eligibility-and-procedural-modifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal rule\u003c/a> made people ineligible for asylum if they crossed another country on the way to the U.S. but failed to apply for protection there. The U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759981451/supreme-court-allows-government-to-curtail-asylum-requests-during-legal-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed \u003c/a>the administration to implement that policy while lower courts weigh a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— On Nov. 14, 2019, the Trump administration issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795925/california-ag-slams-trump-plan-restricting-work-permits-for-asylum-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed federal rule\u003c/a> that would deny work permits to asylum-seekers who didn’t come to the U.S. through an official port of entry, and would make asylum-seekers wait a year for a work permit — rather than the usual five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— In 2019, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_1028_opa_factsheet-northern-central-america-agreements_v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed agreements\u003c/a> with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that allow the U.S. to send asylum-seekers to those countries to seek protections in those countries instead. Since then, the U.S. has sent dozens of Honduran and Salvadorans to Guatemala under the agreement, according to media reports.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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