Senators voted 52-48 to acquit him on abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him on obstruction of Congress.
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Senators voted 433-48 to acquit the president on abuse of power, and 53-47 to acquit him of obstruction of Congress.
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On Wednesday, the Senate voted 52-48 to acquit Trump of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of the obstruction charge.
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Senators voted 52-48 to acquit him on charges that he abused power, and 1703-47 to acquit him on obstruction of Congress charges.
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Slim. Republicans fall into line During the speechifying that precedes tomorrow's vote to acquit Trump in the Senate, we've seen nearly every Republican announce they'll acquit the President.
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The survey of 1,006 adults was conducted after the Senate voted 52-48 to acquit Trump of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of obstructing Congress.
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All 45 Senate Democrats voted to acquit their party's president, while five Republicans voted to acquit on both impeachment articles; five more voted "not guilty" on one of them.
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Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who nonetheless voted to acquit Trump.
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Jorah and the Hound acquit themselves fine during the fray.
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Second, it's not guaranteed that the Senate will acquit Trump.
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Trenga could still decide later on whether to acquit Kian.
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Guess encouraged the jury to acquit, herself encouraged by Gill.
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Republican senators had been ready to swiftly acquit President Trump.
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Republicans are expected to acquit him around 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, Senate Republicans overwhelmingly voted to acquit President Trump.
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And remember, the Senate vote didn't just acquit the President.
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Similarly, President Clinton was charged with two offenses and acquitted on both — the Senate voted 55-45 to acquit him of a perjury charge, and 50-50 to acquit him of obstruction of justice.
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Again, there is no one-to-one association; predominantly black juries convict black defendants and acquit white defendants all the time, and predominantly white juries acquit black defendants and convict white defendants as well.
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The Republican-majority Senate is expected to acquit him this week.
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This is enough evidence to acquit him in the fans' eyes.
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The Senate's decision to acquit Trump fell largely along party lines.
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The Senate on Wednesday voted to acquit Trump without calling witnesses.
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Who will make the case to convict or acquit the President?
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He voted to acquit on the second article, obstruction of Congress.
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Senate Republicans blocked witnesses, and the Senate voted to acquit Trump.
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The chamber voted to acquit Clinton 55-45 in February 1999.
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The Senate is widely expected to acquit Trump in any trial.
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The Senate voted to acquit the president of the impeachment articles.
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Two choices: acquit or remove -- Marco Rubio said in a mind-bending statement that he assumed all the allegations were true and still decided to acquit Trump because, in part, it would further divide the nation.
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On Wednesday, the Senate will most likely vote to acquit President Trump.
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Others voted to acquit to save their political hides from primary challengers.
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On obstruction, 53 senators voted to acquit and 47 voted to convict.
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She went on to declare that she would nonetheless vote to acquit.
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A quick, party-line vote to acquit could be all we get.
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The top court would have 180 days to convict or acquit Temer.
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The Senate's decision to acquit Trump fell almost entirely along party lines.
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They could acquit Slager if they believe he acted in self-defense.
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If they do hear the cases, they simply do not acquit defendants.
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Several senators rebuked Mr. Clinton even as they voted to acquit him.
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Doug Jones says he'll vote to acquit Trump if "dots aren't connected"
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The Republican-controlled chamber is all but certain to acquit the president.
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They could vote to acquit on the basis of an incomplete record.
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This story has been updated to reflect Wednesday's votes to acquit Trump.
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The Republican-controlled chamber is all but certain to acquit the president.
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Most if not all of them will, of course, vote to acquit.
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The Republican-led Senate is ultimately expected to vote to acquit him.
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The conventional wisdom is that the Senate will now acquit the president.
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All indications are that the majority-Republican senators will acquit the president.
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That will kick things over to the Senate, which will acquit Trump.
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And no one can seriously doubt it, even those who voted to acquit.
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On obstruction, 22020 senators voted to acquit and 47 voted to convict. Sen.
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And we talked for a while, then it was 11-1 to acquit.
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The Senate voted to acquit the president mainly along partisan lines, with Sen.
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The House could impeach the president, but the Senate would ultimately acquit him.
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Never mind jurors (who would acquit Mr. King but convict his longtime secretary).
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The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, is widely expect to acquit Trump.
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There is little question that Mr. Alexander will vote to acquit Mr. Trump.
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Even if Jones votes, say, to acquit the President, he could still lose.
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By voting to acquit Donald Trump, the Senate has set a devastating precedent.
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But a vote to acquit would have minimal actual political consequences for Romney.
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His statement comes hours before the Senate is expected to acquit the President.
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Absent some future Nixon-type smoking gun, the Senate will acquit President Trump.
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The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, is widely expected to acquit Trump.
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Mitch McConnell is swatting down Democratic demands and pledging to acquit the president.
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The Senate voted, largely on party lines, to acquit Trump on February 5.
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The Senate, which holds a GOP majority, is expected to acquit the president.
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Several Senate Republicans decried Trump's actions toward Ukraine but still voted to acquit him.
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Therefore, albeit reluctantly, I will vote to acquit William Jefferson Clinton on both counts.
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Unlike Romney, however, Collins ultimately voted to acquit Trump of the charges against him.
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The formal vote on whether to acquit Mr. Trump will take place on Wednesday.
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However, the president has also touted Wednesday's votes to acquit him on both articles.
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Romney voted to convict on the first article and to acquit on the second.
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On the obstruction charge, five Republicans joined the 19803 Democrats in voting to acquit.
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"If it doesn&apost fit, you must acquit," said Cochran, who died in 2005.
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A similar argument failed to convince a jury to acquit Van Dyke last year.
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A final vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Then, on Wednesday, the Senate will hold a vote on whether to acquit Trump.
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The vote on article one, perjury, was 45 to convict versus 55 to acquit.
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But Democrats have their own list of possible defectors who could vote to acquit.
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Some Republican senators have said they favor a short process to quickly acquit Trump.
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The GOP-held Senate is expected to acquit Trump following a trial in January.
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McConnell has repeatedly predicted that the Senate will acquit Trump in an impeachment trial.
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Mitch McConnell has already declared there's no question the Senate will acquit Donald Trump.
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A vote on whether to acquit the President is now scheduled to come Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, the Senate in its current form was always going to acquit the president.
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The timing of a final vote on whether to convict or acquit was unclear.
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It took 28 minutes for an all-white jury to acquit the police chief.
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He did not acquit himself well on that count during Tuesday night's vice presidential debate.
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The announcement came after Ellis denied Manafort's request to acquit him of all the charges.
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At Clinton's trial in the '90s, senators voted along party lines to acquit, 55-45.
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Meyers did acknowledge one notable exception to the wave of Republicans who voted to acquit.
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On the first article, 2628 senators voted to acquit and 28503 senators voted to convict.
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Roberts read the final tally, with 85033 voting to convict and 52 voting to acquit.
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The Senate is set to acquit Trump on Wednesday afternoon after a three week trial.
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Does it select recruits mainly on the basis of how they acquit themselves in interviews?
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The jury made the decision to acquit Rosfeld after less than four hours of deliberation.
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Before a trial, prosecutors are obligated to share any evidence that could acquit the defendant.
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Only in 1986 did a judge acquit him of corruption charges and order his release.
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The real story is a bit different, though not in ways that acquit The Times.
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A formal vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump is set for 4 p.m.
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Barring an unforeseen political earthquake, the Senate will vote to acquit the president on Wednesday.
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Manchin is viewed as one of three Senate Democrats who could vote to acquit Trump.
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A handful said they had already made up their minds to acquit their party's leader.
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The Senate is predicted to acquit the president of abuse of power and obstructing Congress.
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Presumably it's because he knows the Republican Senate will acquit him and he'll claim exoneration.
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Senate Republicans are preparing to acquit President Donald Trump — and convict the American political system.
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One hundred senators voted on whether to acquit President Trump or remove him from office.
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The first ended in a mistrial after all but one jury member voted to acquit.
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Commenting on Kavala's acquittal, Erdogan said "they set out to acquit him with a maneuver".
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But while they were poised to acquit him, several Republicans offered words of criticism, instead.
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Two Republican senators said they had already decided they would vote to acquit Mr. Trump.
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Trump's lawyers filed its brief on Monday, urging the Senate to "swiftly" acquit the president.
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What would happen if, as seems likely, the Republican Senate votes to acquit President Trump?
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After a three-week trial, the jury took less than five hours to acquit Craig.
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I think the market was expecting the House to impeach and the Senate to acquit.
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"It was 52 and a half," Trump said of the Senate vote to acquit him.
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He can, in effect, conduct his own trial to "acquit" the president through Senate hearings.
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But four justices signaled they will vote to acquit them, which would keep Temer in office.
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The recent action of the Senate to acquit has sent the question to the American electorate.
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Romney joined the rest of the Republican senators in voting to acquit on the obstruction charge.
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The impeachment process wrapped up last week when the Republican-controlled Senate voted to acquit Trump.
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That's when Kian's defense team asked the judge to acquit Kian before the jury could deliberate.
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The effect does not quite work, but both lead actors acquit themselves well, Ms. Jacobson especially.
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Alexander's decision paves the way for the Senate to acquit Trump as soon as Friday evening.
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They will attempt to dissociate Communist theory from practice in an effort to acquit the former.
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At the end, senators had to vote on whether to convict or acquit on particular articles.
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Costello thought he could acquit himself well in his testimony, but it came out very poorly.
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There's also no chance of conviction in the Senate — Republicans would almost certainly vote to acquit.
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That has nothing to do with the basis by which I voted to acquit the President.
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The trial will conclude on Wednesday with a vote that is expected to acquit the president.
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If they skip witnesses, that will pave the way for a swift vote to acquit Trump.
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Asked by CNN if he's made up his mind over whether to acquit Trump, GOP Sen.
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She has been through this process before: She voted to acquit President Bill Clinton in 1999.
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"The Senate should reject the Articles of Impeachment and acquit the president immediately," the memo concluded.
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Senate Democrats stood united to acquit him -- but only after condemning wrongdoing that Clinton himself acknowledged.
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Even if he is impeached by the House, the Senate would be expected to acquit him.
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The upper chamber holds the power to convict and remove or acquit the president of wrongdoing.
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Her attorney has said the shooting was a "true mistake" and that a jury will acquit her.
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"My vote to acquit the president was not based on predicting his future behavior," Ms. Collins said.
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The announcement came after Judge T.S. Ellis III denied Manafort's request to acquit him of all charges.
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The moves followed the Senate vote to acquit Trump of two impeachment articles approved in the House.
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Pelosi on Thursday said a Senate vote to acquit Trump would be invalid without calling new witnesses.
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Also on Thursday, the judge rejected another defense motion to acquit Cosby after prosecutors rested their case.
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Three weeks later, 10 Republicans joined all 45 Democrats to acquit Mr. Clinton on the perjury charge.
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The Senate later Wednesday is almost certain to acquit Trump of the charges that got him impeached.
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After the witness motion was rebuffed, Collins said she concluded she had to vote to acquit Trump.
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John Hoeven of North Dakota and Deb Fischer of Nebraska similarly confirmed their intention to acquit Trump.
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Waddell has since issued a statement to Clay Travis -- "If the catfish don't fit, you must acquit."
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The jury made its decision to acquit the former cop in just under 10 hours of deliberation.
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If there are Democrats who also vote to acquit, it could bolster the president's case, he added.
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It's here we hear the famous "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" line from Cochran.
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But inside the jury deliberation room, the main debate was not about whether to acquit or convict.
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The matter now heads to the Senate, where the Republican majority is expected to acquit the president.
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And who will be watching, on this subject or anything else, if they don't acquit themselves well?
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Joe Manchin calls for the Senate to censure Trump in lieu of voting to convict of acquit
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That means the Republican majority in the Senate will acquit Trump on a mostly party line vote.
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Senate Republicans are all but ready to acquit President Donald Trump and end the Senate impeachment trial.
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It's the first time the White House will publicly present its full case to acquit the president.
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In fact, nearly 21 years ago, she broke party lines and voted to acquit President Bill Clinton.
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"The Senate should speedily reject these deficient articles of impeachment and acquit the president," the brief said.
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The defense team just has to do enough to give Republicans sufficient cover to acquit the President.
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But based on the evidence I've heard, I would vote to acquit him without agonizing over it.
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Republicans in the Senate have made it clear they plan to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial.
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The House will vote to impeach today — possibly tomorrow — and the Senate subsequently will vote to acquit.
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Despite all this, the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday appears all but certain to acquit Mr. Trump.
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WASHINGTON — The US Senate has voted to acquit President Donald Trump of both impeachment charges he faced.
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I mean, what do they think is going to happen when they acquit him till the election?
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Make no mistake: The Senate may acquit Mr. Trump, but it will not, it cannot, exonerate him.
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Republicans are then expected to vote to acquit Trump on all charges as soon as Friday evening.
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It is clear Republicans in the Senate believe the House investigation is flawed and will quickly acquit.
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HULSE: I still have my impeachment ticket from the day of the vote to acquit the president.
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Otherwise, the Senate-controlled GOP will block new witnesses from testifying and move to acquit the President.
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That means the Senate could swiftly vote to acquit President Trump and end the trial, possibly today.
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If a vote on witnesses fails, the Senate could move to acquit the president later that evening.
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The Senate, controlled by Trump's fellow Republicans, is likely to acquit him in a trial next month.
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Then, the Republican-controlled Senate will put the President on trial and all but certainly acquit him.
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That&aposs likely to happen in 2020, and it&aposs expected that the Senate will acquit Trump.
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These are people who are not necessarily excited about casting a vote to acquit the president anyway.
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The case was declared a mistrial in 2017 after a majority of jurors voted to acquit him.
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He persuaded a jury to acquit Dov Hikind, a Democratic state assemblyman from Brooklyn, on charges of taking illegal payoffs in 291; and convinced another jury to acquit Judge Nora S. Anderson, of the Manhattan Surrogate's Court, on charges of lying about contributions made to her campaign in 21993.
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On Wednesday, Vice President Pence said on Fox News he was expecting a "bipartisan vote" to acquit Trump.
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So the results are in, and — to absolutely no-one's surprise — the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump.
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McConnell plans to use that debate time for closing arguments and then to move quickly to acquit Trump.
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Wednesday when Republican senators — most of whom attended the speech — will vote to acquit Trump of both charges.
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Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who had been considered a swing vote on whether to convict or acquit. Rep.
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"We did our first vote and it came out half to acquit, half to convict," said the juror.
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Mitt Romney of Utah, found Trump guilty of abuse of power, while 52 Republicans voted to acquit him.
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The GOP-controlled Senate is likely to acquit Republican President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON – The Senate on Wednesday voted to acquit President Donald Trump of both counts in his impeachment trial.
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The electoral court, known as the TSE, voted 4-3 to acquit the Rousseff-Temer ticket of wrongdoing.
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On the other article of impeachment — obstruction of Congress — Romney said he would vote to acquit the president.
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Seriously, did either of these two acquit themselves in a way that suggests they know what they're doing?
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ET. Wednesday: The Senate is expected to hold the final impeachment vote to acquit Trump at 4 p.m.
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At that time, 11 jurors sought to acquit the former sheriff, while one believed him to be guilty.
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Susan Collins, who voted to acquit Clinton, and will be voting again on whether Trump should be convicted.
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If they hold the line on this, the Senate could vote to acquit Trump as early as Friday.
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At the conclusion of this pathetic excuse for a trial, she'll vote to acquit him — impartially, of course.
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The 51-49 outcome was not surprising and paved the way for the Senate to acquit Mr. Trump.
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It collapsed in the Senate due to seven courageous Republicans who voted to acquit a president they despised.
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The Senate's vote to acquit him on charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power guarantees that.
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Minutes later they voted 47 to 53 to acquit the president on the charge of obstruction of Congress.
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Romney said he will vote to convict on the first article of impeachment and acquit on the second.
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The Senate will hold a final vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump beginning at 4 p.m.
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Their radical defense of executive power received the tacit support of Republican senators who voted to acquit him.
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Up next is a Senate trial and vote on whether to acquit Trump or remove him from office.
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But as the votes on Tuesday indicated, Republicans seemingly resolved to acquit Trump before the proceedings even began.
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If Republicans had their choice, they would vote to acquit Mr. Trump by the end of the night.
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It is expected the Senate will acquit him, but the proceedings could drag out if witnesses are introduced.
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McConnell will move to acquit Trump if he's impeached, not merely dismiss charges, 22 Republican senators say 217.
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But it's clear where the consensus is heading in the Republican Party: Acquit Trump and then move on.
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The House impeached Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice, though the Senate later voted to acquit him.
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Republicans in the Senate, however, are almost certain to acquit Trump when the issue comes to a trial.
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Paul Manafort's lawyers asked a judge to acquit Manafort of all charges after prosecutors rested their case on Monday.
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The GOP senator, however, voted with his party to acquit Trump on the charge of obstruction of Congress. Feb.
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The measure ultimately failed by a 49-85033 margin, setting up a vote next week to swiftly acquit Trump.
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The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, is widely expected to acquit Trump at the conclusion of the trial.
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The Senate will vote on a verdict Wednesday, though it's widely expected senators will vote to acquit the president.
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A judge in a case in which a woman had bought abortion pills instructed the jury to acquit her.
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And the guy who didn't want to acquit basically looked at us and said, 'Okay, whatever you all want.
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The other senator, Susan Collins of Maine, announced Tuesday that she would vote to acquit Trump on both articles.
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Mr Christie bashed Planned Parenthood: evidently an eternal whipping boy, no matter how many inquiries acquit it of wrongdoing.
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Hironaka, 73, has won several high profile cases, helping acquit senior lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa and senior bureaucrat Atsuko Muraki.
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From March to May 1868, over 11 weeks, the Senate tried Johnson's case, and finally voted to acquit him.
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If Democrats pull the impeachment trigger, Republican senators will almost certainly acquit Trump and he could emerge even stronger.
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Trump has since praised Loeffler publicly following her votes to acquit him on House-passed impeachment articles in February.
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Both permit juries in felony trials to return guilty verdicts even if one or two jurors vote to acquit.
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If the Senate decides to acquit, then the people will have the final word in the elections of 2020.
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The GOP-controlled Senate voted to acquit Trump on two impeachment articles: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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The defense has gone from 'If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit' to 'Give me back my glove!
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Democrats continue to howl about it and some few Republicans complained in statements on their way to acquit him.
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Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, said on the Senate floor Monday evening that she would vote to acquit the President.
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Hence the quartet's dilemma, if they are forced to consider voting whether to acquit Mr. Trump or convict him.
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For a Republican in a state where Mr. Trump isn't popular, convict is a much safer vote than acquit.
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If the Senate votes against hearing witness testimony, Mitch McConnell could move toward a vote to acquit Trump quickly.
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He also said he could not say that Bolton's testimony would determine whether he votes to acquit Trump. Sen.
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With the White House's support, McConnell designed a pro forma trial meant to acquit Trump as quickly as possible.
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Republicans in the Senate majority have indicated in the past couple of days that they will vote to acquit.
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Even those who ultimately acquit their party's President face their constituents' judgment on whether they reached that decision judiciously.
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The first arguments in Clinton's trial were presented on January 14 and senators voted to acquit him February 9.
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The prosecution turned up 14 allegedly doctored ballots out of 1.7 million cast, and the jury voted to acquit.
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If the Democratic-controlled House does impeach the President, the Republican-controlled Senate still looks set to acquit him.
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All but one of them voted on Wednesday to acquit Mr. Trump of both of the charges against him.
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And the administration was even hoping some vulnerable Democrats might buck their party and vote to acquit the President.
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After a trial that lasted a little over two weeks, the Republican-led Senate voted to acquit the president.
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Some were specifically disappointed with the jury's decision to acquit Mr. Weinstein of two counts of predatory sexual assault.
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Opinion Columnist Republicans in the Senate are poised to acquit Donald Trump without even truly putting him on trial.
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They all acquit themselves well, and the show exhibits a high degree of competence and polish in its production.
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They calculated that it was better to acquit and move on, even if a smoking gun comes out later.
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Collins voted to acquit Clinton in 1999 and is perhaps the likeliest Republican who could vote to convict Trump.
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" Ms. Feinstein said it remained to be seen whether Judge Gorsuch could acquit himself as "a reasonable mainstream conservative.
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But now, Lee has emerged as one of the de facto leaders of the case to acquit the president.
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Next, the impeachment proceedings will go to the Republican-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit the president.
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A jury voted unanimously to acquit Simone Gbagbo, the wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo, said Judge Kouadio Bouatchi.
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In the next month or two, the Senate will almost surely acquit him, also on a party-line vote.
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That's not enough to acquit the governor; if [Williams] failed, that still would be enough to support a conviction.
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Sen. Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinWhat the impeachment vote looked like from inside the chamber Overnight Defense: Senate votes to acquit Trump | Highlights from State of the Union | Trump defends Soleimani strike | Service member surprises family at speech | Air Force tests ICBM Senate votes to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment MORE (D-W.
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Alexander Vindman as part of a broad effort to clean house after being acquittedThe Senate voted to acquit President Trump.
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It'll be hard for them to vote to acquit if they can't even come up with a non-ludicrous rationale.
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Bernthal and the rest of the cast acquit themselves well with the material they're given, but they aren't given much.
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U.N. human rights experts had urged the government last week to acquit Galal El Behairy, expressing alarm at his arrest.
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The Senate is set to hold a final vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump at about 4 p.m.
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The Senate voted later Friday not to call for witnesses, setting up a vote to acquit the president next week.
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The jury took less than an hour to acquit Bryan L. of felony charges of dealing narcotics near a school.
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Some people vented about the court's decision to acquit Stockley, while others called for some city leaders to step down.
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In 1969, a jury took only 50 minutes to acquit a man named Clay Shaw of conspiring to assassinate Kennedy.
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Senate Republicans have become increasingly confident they will avoid a messy floor fight over witnesses and vote to acquit Trump.
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Dershowitz, who helped acquit Simpson of murder charges in 1995, said the chilly reception came from his defense of Trump.
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On Wednesday, the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Instead, it is likely to acquit him of the two charges he faces: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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That way we can acquit President Trump and focus on the real criminals in this country: teenagers who try marijuana.
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If it fails, the Senate will almost certainly vote to acquit Trump quickly, likely before the end of the week.
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"The Senate should speedily reject these deficient articles of impeachment and acquit the president," said the summary, released on Monday.
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Many Republican senators want to block new witnesses from testifying and move to acquit the President as early as Friday.
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History shows that Schumer ran for the Senate based on his promise made before trial to vote to acquit Clinton.
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From March to May 1868, over 11 weeks, the Senate tried Johnson&aposs case and finally voted to acquit him.
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To Pelosi, the Republican-held Senate would acquit Trump which would make a criminal prosecution, once Trump leaves office less likely.
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The term jury nullification refers to when jurors acquit a defendant even when they believe he is guilty of charged crimes.
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Collins and Murkowski are undecided on impeachment witnesses, while Sinema and Manchin are viewed as potential Democratic votes to acquit Trump.
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"I think it would be good for the country for the Senate to vote, to acquit and move on," Pence said.
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Forty-eight senators, including one Republican, found Trump guilty of abuse of power, while 52, all Republicans, voted to acquit him.
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The juror said she would have voted to acquit all three men and was curious about how the case was proceeding.
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The Senate is currently deliberating the two articles of impeachment against Trump and is expected to acquit the president on Wednesday.
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A vote to convict would outrage the Republican base, while a vote to acquit would inflame Maine's increasingly dominant Democratic Party.
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It voted in February 1999 among party lines to acquit him on both, and no Democratic senators voted to convict him.
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They suggested impeachment would be a waste of time given that Senate Republicans are likely to acquit Trump in a trial.
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Ten Arab states currently have laws that acquit rapists on condition that they marry their victims, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Days later, the Senate voted to acquit Trump on charges that he abused his power by pressuring Ukraine and obstructed Congress.
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While several Republican senators acknowledged the president's wrongdoing, nearly all of them eventually voted to acquit Trump of both articles. Sen.
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On Wednesday evening, President Trump's Senate impeachment trial finally came to a conclusion with a vote: to charge or to acquit.
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He spoke to The Times about those preparations, which ended this week with all but one Republican senator voting to acquit.
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Most of the conference has signaled it prefers to avoid hearing from witnesses and move straight to voting to acquit Trump.
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Now, a majority of senators might actually hear from new witnesses and seriously weigh the evidence before voting to acquit Trump.
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Some even distributed the statements they delivered to their colleagues during final deliberations over whether to convict or acquit Mr. Clinton.
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The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit President Trump on both charges, drawing a fractious impeachment trial to a close.
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In the morning, senators will take to the Senate floor to explain their decisions to either convict or acquit Mr. Trump.
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Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, once seen as among the few flippable GOP lawmakers, said Monday she will vote to acquit Trump.
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Something heartening happened as we prepared to see the Senate complete its pantomime of a trial and acquit President Donald Trump.
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Senators hold a trial, where they have the power to convict the president — and remove him from office — or acquit him.
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Jones, 65, has said he would consider voting to acquit Trump if the "dots aren't connected" in the case against him.
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Gardner voted against hearing from witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial last month and voted to acquit the president on both articles.
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Then they will either vote to subpoena witnesses or, if the votes aren't there for that, vote to acquit the President.
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Republicans are eager to move to acquit the President after opening arguments are completed, even as Democrats demand witnesses and documents.
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Trial judge Azmi Ariffin set Thursday to rule on whether to acquit the women or ask them to enter their defence.
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Elissa Slotkin told BuzzFeed News, defending why she's voting yes to impeach, given that the Senate will likely acquit the president.
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Impeachment proceedings will now continue in the Republican-majority Senate, which will hold a trial, and almost certainly acquit the president.
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It now moves to the GOP-controlled Senate, which is expected to acquit Trump just as Clinton was two decades earlier.
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The Senate is ultimately expected to acquit Trump, but defections on the decision to call witnesses by moderate Republicans like Sens.
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Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinWhat the impeachment vote looked like from inside the chamber Overnight Defense: Senate votes to acquit Trump | Highlights from State of the Union | Trump defends Soleimani strike | Service member surprises family at speech | Air Force tests ICBM Senate votes to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment MORE (D-W.
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The Senate voted to acquit Trump of the impeachment articles last week after blocking a motion to hear new witnesses and documents.
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Susan Collins of Maine, who was recently mocked for voting to acquit Trump and saying she believed he had learned a lesson.
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He voted to convict Trump on a charge of abuse of power but to acquit him on the obstruction of Congress charge.
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Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Doug Jones (Ala.) — to see if they will vote to acquit Trump on one or both articles.
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Romney voted to convict Trump of abuse of power along with every Democrat but voted to acquit him of obstruction of Congress.
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Biden, who was a senator at the time, voted to acquit Clinton during the trial phase in the senate in February 1999.
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The Senate on Wednesday voted largely along party lines to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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" Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat, House impeachment manager: "If the Senate chooses to acquit under these circumstances, then America is in the wilderness.
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At the end of the trial — which McConnell's caucus reportedly wants to conduct quickly — senators vote to acquit or convict the president.
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Lined up the right way, senators who represent 25m citizens could acquit a president, against the wishes of senators who represent 300m.
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"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit," she says, quoting Johnnie Cochran's famous line from his dramatic defense of O.J. Simpson.
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Meanwhile, on the second count, that Constand was unconscious or unaware during the incident, the vote was 11-1 to acquit Cosby.
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Some members fear that the Republican-led Senate would simply acquit Trump of the House's charges and the President would claim vindication.
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Joe Manchin of West Virginia who were previously considered possible swing votes all voted to convict, with no Democrats moving to acquit.
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On February 5, the Senate formally voted to acquit President Donald Trump of two charges against him following a bitter impeachment trial.
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If the vote fails, as is expected, the Senate could move as soon as Friday night to vote to acquit the president.
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Schumer has been warning for weeks about the consequences of Republicans voting to acquit Trump through a "sham trial" without additional witnesses.
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The measure still failed by a 85033-51 margin, setting up a vote next week that is virtually guaranteed to acquit Trump.
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The Senate voted to acquit Trump on both charges, falling well short of the two-thirds needed to remove him from office.
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A jury reportedly agreed it was an accident and only took 30 minutes to acquit the rapper ... as reported by Page Six.
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After a five-week trial in early 1999, the Senate voted to acquit Clinton on both charges in another party-line vote.
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Some people vented about the court's decision to acquit Jason Stockley, who as an officer in 2011 shot and killed a motorist.
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They could essentially ask a jury to acquit them because they never intended to break the law, even if they technically did.
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Pelosi has expressed concerns that the GOP-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit Trump, will not hold a fair trial.
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Alexander has indicated he will vote to acquit Trump because he doesn't think Trump's actions rose to the level of impeachable offenses.
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The Senate vote, whether to convict or acquit Trump, will happen after Monday's Iowa caucuses and Tuesday's State of the Union address.
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Both Johnson and Clinton were Democratic presidents, and no Democrat voted to convict either man (though some Republicans did vote to acquit).
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All told, the senators voting to acquit represent about 152 million individuals, while senators voting to convict represent about 170 million individuals.
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Senate leaders struck a deal to hold the final vote to acquit Trump on the two articles of impeachment at 4 p.m.
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Edmund Ross, who broke with his party to issue the deciding vote to acquit President Andrew Johnson in the first American impeachment.
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Just hours after Ross cast his historic vote to acquit Johnson, he was spotted by a congressman entering the White House grounds.
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If the vote fails to move forward on witnesses, the Senate could move to acquit Trump by the end of next week.
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At that point, GOP senators must decide whether to allow witnesses, seek to acquit the President or move to dismiss the case.
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The trio of lawmakers are seen as the likeliest Democrats who could possibly vote to acquit, in part because of constituent pressure.
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Susan Collins, one of just two Republicans who voted in favor of witnesses last week, announced she would vote to acquit Trump.
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So on Wednesday afternoon, the Senate voted to acquit president Trump on two charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Romney voted with the Republicans to acquit on the second article, obstruction of Congress, bringing that not guilty vote to 53-47.
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That will include a continuous whip count until McConnell feels he has the votes to acquit the President and end the show.
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Mitt Romney's stunning decision to vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power as his party prepares to acquit him.
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The Senate is all but assured to acquit Mr. Trump in a vote scheduled for Wednesday that will end his impeachment trial.
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It's entirely possible there are Democrats who vote to acquit Trump, and these three are far and away the most likely candidates.
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WASHINGTON — Senator James M. Inhofe, a conservative Republican from Oklahoma, has made clear that he intends to vote to acquit President Trump.
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Result: House Democrats passed articles of impeachment, but the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit -- and potentially to dismiss charges altogether.
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It's a decision that will long be remembered as a massive rebuke of Trump's presidency even if the Senate votes to acquit.
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As things stand, the Senate Republicans are expected to stand by Trump and acquit him if a full trial were to happen.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate would acquit President Donald Trump if an impeachment trial were held today.
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The jury was tasked with deciding whether to acquit Slager, to charge him with murder, or to charge him with voluntary manslaughter.
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Voters were split 257-215 percent on whether it was appropriate for the Senate last week to acquit Trump, the poll shows.
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Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate voted to acquit Trump of both charges after refusing to hear new witness testimony or subpoena documents.
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Under the rules that govern criminal cases in the federal courts, judges can acquit a defendant if they find the evidence is insufficient.
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" When Murkowski later voted to acquit Trump, she said, "The Senate should be ashamed by the rank partisanship that has been on display.
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About one in three Americans polled by Insider agreed with the Senate's vote to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment.
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A Tarantino reimagining might be cathartic for Congressional Democrats and other Americans who were disappointed to see the Senate acquit Trump on Wednesday.
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On February 5, the Senate formally voted to acquit President Donald Trump of the two charges against him following a bitter impeachment trial.
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Though her decision to acquit will infuriate the state's liberals, voting against Trump would have provoked a sizable backlash from the state's conservatives.
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President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is entering its third week Monday, and the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit him by Wednesday.
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He also hoped to show that he could acquit himself well on the world stage, something that is a clear strength of Mrs.
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"Maybe yesterday's annulment encouraged the judge's decision to acquit the defendants," said Khaled Ali, a lawyer who was representing some of the accused.
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But like Graham, Rubio, and all Republicans except Romney, Cruz insisted it did not merit removal from office and voted to acquit him.
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President Trump's trial in the Senate is expected to conclude today with a vote to acquit him, according to the New York Times.
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If the Senate does not vote in favor of witnesses it is expected to quickly vote to end the trial and acquit Trump.
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Assuming that the Republican-controlled Senate will acquit him of any articles moved by the House, he will crow that he was exonerated.
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Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, another closely watched moderate Republican, announced on the floor this week that she would vote to acquit the President.
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Anita: We don't know what the actual vote will be to acquit Trump, but we are nearly certain that he will be acquitted.
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The Senate is expected to vote to acquit Trump even though some moderate Republicans have bristled over McConnell's reflexive support for the president.
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Edmund G. Ross of Kansas, who, after breaking with his party, is generally considered to have cast the deciding vote to acquit Johnson.
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For the perjury charge, 55 senators vote not guilty and for the obstruction of justice charge, 50 senators vote to acquit the president.
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Here they are, along with a handful of others who could entertain the idea but are almost certain to vote to acquit. Sen.
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But here's my advice to the president: If the Senate is ready to vote and ready to acquit you, you should celebrate that.
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But several Republican senators had been reluctant, instead indicating a preference for a quick trial that would acquit the president without involving witnesses.
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But Senate Republicans are nonetheless about to acquit him without even pretending to look at the evidence, thereby encouraging further abuses of power.
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While the Senate voted Wednesday to acquit the President, the complete story of what happened between Trump and Ukraine still hasn't been told.
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House Republicans were united in rejecting the impeachment articles in the House and the GOP-led Senate voted to acquit Trump on Wednesday.
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In fact, some might even call what Schumer did a quid pro quo -- you support me, and I'll vote to acquit your president.
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The president's lawyer spoke about the damage wrought by partisanship in a final appeal to the closely divided Senate to acquit Mr. Trump.
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Before Christmas, the House will indict Trump on one or more of the articles of impeachment and then the Senate will acquit him.
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If Republican senators vote to acquit Trump of impeachable offenses next year, they will effectively make a statement that such conduct is permissible.
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Trial judge Azmi Ariffin set Aug 16 to rule on whether to acquit the women or call for them to enter their defense.
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That's where Microsoft's cans acquit themselves very well, including the reverse option of amplifying ambient sounds to make you more aware of your surroundings.
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On the second count, that Constand was unconscious or unaware during the incident, the vote was 11 to one to acquit, the juror said.
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When Republican senators voted to acquit President Donald Trump last week, several said they believed he had learned his lesson from the impeachment process.
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Both Romney allies on Capitol Hill and advisers close to the White House told the president they believed Romney would vote to acquit him.
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As the day drew on, it appeared Senate Republicans might be unanimous in voting to acquit Trump when the vote takes place on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate was poised on Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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His announcement surprised colleagues, who were expecting him to vote to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment after two other moderates, Sens.
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The GOP-controlled upper chamber is expected to vote to acquit Trump this week after an effort to subpoena new witnesses and documents failed.
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"The only appropriate result here is to acquit the president and to leave it to the voters to choose their president," Mr. Cipollone said.
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EST (2100 GMT) on Wednesday, the Republican-led Senate was expected to acquit Trump of impeachment charges he abused his powers and obstructed Congress.
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Just hours before the Senate formally voted to acquit the president, he still hadn't made up his mind about how he intended to celebrate.
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Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) became the first swing vote to come down, announcing she would vote to acquit Trump in a floor speech Monday.
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Alexander was already on-record opposing a vote to convict, and Murkowski announced later Monday that she, too, would vote to acquit the president.
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Those who have already declared their intention to vote to acquit the president hold a wide range of views on Trump's conduct toward Ukraine.
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The form of his response depends partly on the day and time of the Senate's vote to acquit, according to one senior administration official.
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The votes in the Senate to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress fell mainly among party lines. Sen.
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" Heading into federal court Thursday morning, Menendez expressed confidence the jury will ultimately acquit him, saying, "I believe that verdict will be of innocence.
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Eventually, the jury announced that it was unable to reach a unanimous decision, with 85033 of the 12 jurors voting to acquit the senator.
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When the public doesn't trust a prosecutor, juries become skeptical of evidence and are more apt to acquit defendants who genuinely threaten public safety.
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" He handed me a flyer addressed to the "Brothers and Sisters of Montgomery County" that read, in bold, sans serif print "ACQUIT BILL COSBY.
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Forty-three percent said Collins voted to acquit Trump more because she thought the president didn't commit any impeachable offenses, based on the poll.
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Donna Rotunno told the jurors to use their "New York City common sense" and acquit Weinstein on all charges because the evidence isn't there.
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Susan Collins (R-ME) gave for voting for acquit President Donald Trump aged poorly before she even had a chance to officially cast it.
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Now that the impeachment articles are in the Senate, Republicans in the upper chamber have grown increasingly optimistic about moving to quickly acquit Trump.
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Mr. Alexander's final statement made clear that he would vote to acquit Mr. Trump, as well, even if he did not condone his conduct.
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" Later, after a spate of news articles about him, Mr. Jones backtracked: "Don't go putting some damn headline in there, 'Still open to acquit.
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McConnell and Schumer served in the Senate during Bill Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial - McConnell voted to convict the Democratic president; Schumer voted to acquit.
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In 2017, Segura's first trial was declared a mistrial after some members of the jury wanted to acquit him and others wanted to convict.
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While the White House has signaled it's prepared for a quick trial to acquit Trump, no announcements have been made about its legal strategy.
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First, some of Trump's defenders, including several senators who voted to acquit, argued that Trump's conduct, even if wrong or improper, was not impeachable.
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Republican senators are expected to easily vote to acquit Trump on Wednesday, delivering a finishing blow to Democrats' efforts to remove him from office.
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Here's lead manager Adam Schiff, reminding the senators that there are no take backsies on if they vote to acquit or convict the president.
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The jury's decision to acquit him sent an even stronger message that those who deal in these securities have the wherewithal to protect themselves.
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What's next: Mr. Trump didn't mention his impeachment trial, which is expected to end today with a vote in the Senate to acquit him.
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The news struck at the heart of the impeachment debate just as senators were weighing whether more evidence was necessary to convict or acquit.
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Because despite the desperate hopes of Republican senators longing to acquit the President, there is no sense that President Trump has learned his lesson.
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The ad also references the Senate's vote Wednesday to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial, including a clip of a floor speech by Sen.
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On Wednesday, the Senate voted to acquit President Trump of charges levied by the House of Representatives — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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On Wednesday, the Senate voted to acquit President Trump of charges levied by the House of Representatives — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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But the resolution failed and the trial lasted several more weeks before senators ultimately voted to acquit Mr. Clinton on both charges against him.
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In response, Mr. McConnell said that he had the votes he needed to quickly acquit the president without calling witnesses or hearing new evidence.
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Mitt Romney's stunning decision to vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power on Wednesday as his party prepares to acquit him.
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Republicans took a victory lap on Wednesday after the Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on the abuse of power and obstruction charges.
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If Republicans do defeat the witness vote Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to move quickly to acquit Trump, according to Sen.
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But my colleague Sheryl Gay Stolberg points out that Democrats have their own list of possible defectors who could vote to acquit Mr. Trump.
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In brief remarks, Mr. Cipollone spoke about the damage wrought by partisanship in an appeal to the closely divided Senate to acquit Mr. Trump.
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Mr Trump could be impeached before Christmas, setting up a trial early next year in the Senate, which will in all likelihood acquit him.
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The Senate&aposs role in impeachment is to act as jurors and vote whether or not to acquit Trump or remove him from office.
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Alexander Dreymon and Lesley-Ann Brandt, who've made impressions on television in "The Last Kingdom" and "Lucifer," acquit themselves well in a predictable scenario.
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That doesn't obviously acquit Hillary Clinton of carelessness or negligence with respect to her emails, nor does it say that there was no evidence.
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Romney voted to convict Trump on the charge of abuse of power and to acquit the president on a second charge of obstruction of Congress.
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He'd never stood in that spot before in a closed-door party meeting, and most senators left with the impression that he would acquit Trump.
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The post compares Pelosi's reaction to the speech to McConnell's inferred reaction to the articles of impeachment following the Senate's vote to acquit the president.
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Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivers remarks immediately after the GOP-controlled Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment. Sen.
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The measure to block witnesses was long seen as a decision to acquit the president, and Democrats had hoped Mr. Alexander would vote with them.
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But, in theory, Senate Republicans could decide they want to go through a whole extended trial and then acquit Trump on a party-line vote.
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If you're going to convict or acquit based on evidence provided by a piece of software, you'd better be damn sure that software is reliable.
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Five senators are up in the air on whether to convict or acquit the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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These three Democrats are the only ones believed to be considering a vote to acquit Trump on at least one of the charges against him.
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The Utah Republican, whose term runs until January 2025, voted to acquit Trump of the House charge that he obstructed Congress during its impeachment inquiry.
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I knew about the Bronco chase, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," and the fact that he was actually acquitted, and that's about it.
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The vote was 11-1 to acquit Cosby on a charge that he digitally penetrated Constand while she was unconscious or unaware, the juror said.
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On the third count, that Constand was unconscious or unaware during the incident, the vote was 11-1 to acquit Cosby, according to the juror.
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If found guilty, we need to acknowledge and denounce that wrongdoing, to hold to account former colleagues who did not acquit themselves to our standards.
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The appeals court at The Hague on Friday ruled in a majority opinion to acquit the former warlord, finding that Bemba had been erroneously convicted.
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I was thinking that Mitt Romney may play the role of Joe Lieberman, where he denounced Bill Clinton's conduct but still voted to acquit him.
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In addition to effectively being the jury that votes to acquit or convict at the end, senators get to decide how the trial is conducted.
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If this were a criminal case, where the jury had to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, Dr. Meyerson said he would have to acquit.
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Defendants facing such charges are not permitted to argue to jurors that they should vote to acquit because the disclosure was in the public interest.
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Many Republican senators have signaled support for skipping witnesses and new evidence and moving straight to a vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump.
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Democrats need four GOP senators to vote to call witnesses, but a majority of GOP senators have already said they will vote to acquit Trump.
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The goal was to poke holes in the House managers' arguments in order to provide enough fodder to Senate Republicans already inclined to acquit him.
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The Republican majority, with its members either ambivalent about Trump's wrongdoing or afraid of a Republican base entirely in thrall to him, will acquit him.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that if an impeachment trial took place today, the Senate would acquit President Trump, Politico reports.
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And they undermine the comments of GOP senators who in voting to acquit the President suggested that the shame of impeachment could temper his behavior.
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Last week, Republican senators voted not to hear witnesses in that trial, and the Senate is all but certain to acquit Trump later this week.
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With Republicans standing in lock step to acquit Mr. Trump, all eyes on Wednesday afternoon will be on Senate Democrats in search of any defections.
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It was easy for every Democrat to vote for President Trump's conviction, and it was easy for every Republican but him to vote to acquit.
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But GOP senators also say they want to formally acquit Trump instead of dismissing the articles, even though the idea has been embraced by Trump.
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The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit Trump; that would make him the third US president to be impeached but not removed from office.
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Then, the Senate entered four days of closed-door jury deliberations totaling nearly 26 hours, before voting to acquit Clinton on two articles of impeachment.
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It could be that Mitch comes in and says, we'll have opening arguments and then we're going to vote to acquit him, and that's it.
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Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are forced to choose whether they would acquit the president or remove him from office, Schumer's ready to back off.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to impeach Trump, but Putin, like most observers, said he expected the Republican Senate to acquit him.
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If that occurs, it is the responsibility of the Senate to hold a trial to decide to convict or acquit the President of impeachment charges.
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Va.) and Doug Jones (Ala.) are expected to come under heavy pressure from constituents to acquit Trump when articles of impeachment come before the Senate.
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Va.) and Krysten SinemaKyrsten Lea SinemaOvernight Defense: Senate votes to acquit Trump | Highlights from State of the Union | Trump defends Soleimani strike | Service member surprises family at speech | Air Force tests ICBM Senate votes to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment Sinema will vote to convict Trump MORE (D-Ariz.) -- all seen as potential swing votes -- announced earlier Wednesday that they would vote to convict.
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As many predicted, Senate Republicans voted to acquit Donald Trump of both charges brought against him in the impeachment trial, ensuring he will remain in office.
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" The vote to acquit Mr. Trump is a lesson for those who think the @SenateGOP will magically negotiate in good faith and "meet in the middle.
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Lindsey Graham told Fox News Radio's "Brian Kilmeade Show" that he didn't think he would be judged by God for voting to acquit President Donald Trump.
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The pushback from moderate Republicans derailed McConnell's plan to acquit Trump late Friday or early Saturday after a marathon round of votes on Democratic procedural objections.
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But Republicans are likely to have enough votes to block subpoenaing additional witnesses and evidence, instead moving to acquit Trump as early as Friday night. Sen.
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This year's speech comes sandwiched between Monday night's Iowa caucuses and an expected vote in the Senate on Wednesday to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial.
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In speeches Tuesday, Republican senators sought to persuade their colleagues to acquit the president, echoing arguments that Trump's legal team made when laying out their case.
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The Republican-led chamber ultimately voted to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress as the numbers from Iowa were released.
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The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected a petition calling for a review of its earlier decision to acquit Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy.
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Guess pressed the jury to acquit, but she likely wouldn't have had much success doing so unless the case against her lover looked a little shaky.
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Especially if the public support for impeachment continues to grow, a Republican vote to acquit the president could tip at least a few vulnerable Republican seats.
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We all know where the inside game is likely to lead: House Democrats will impeach Trump; Senate Republicans will acquit him; and he will claim vindication.
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That means that the senators voting to convict represent about 170 million individuals — 18 million more people than the bloc of senators who voted to acquit.
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Murkowski announced Monday that she would not vote to acquit the President, however, which was not a big surprise given she also voted against calling witnesses.
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The final Senate vote on Wednesday to convict or acquit the President -- which is virtually certain to result in his acquittal -- will be open and public.
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Because the Senate is controlled by Republicans who are expected to acquit Trump, the White House aides are more focused on trying to sway public opinion.
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The outcome of the impeachment saga appears predictable and predetermined at this point: The Democratic-led House will impeach and the Republican-led Senate will acquit.
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President Donald Trump is unequivocal: He is innocent, the phone call was "perfect," and the Senate will soon acquit him of the impeachment charges against him.
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Now, after faux deliberations, the Republicans have concluded the proceeding with a vote to acquit President Trump (except for a solitary beacon of decency, Mitt Romney).
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Susan Collins announced on Tuesday that she would vote to acquit President Donald Trump on both impeachment articles brought against him by the Democratic-controlled House.
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The GOP-controlled Senate is expected to acquit Trump, but as Pelosi has repeatedly noted, his presidency will forever be accompanied with the asterisk of impeachment.
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But the majority of Pelosi's own caucus stood behind her as she argued that McConnell was attempting to block witnesses from testifying to help acquit Trump.
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The Republican-controlled Senate is almost certain to acquit Trump, who has painted the impeachment proceedings as an effort by Democrats to poison his re-election.
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If the vote to call witnesses fails, the Senate could vote to end the trial — and very likely acquit the president — as soon as Friday. Rep.
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The questions on their own don't signal how any senator may vote on Friday on witnesses or the final vote to convict or acquit the President.
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There's a good chance that the Republican-controlled Senate will acquit him in 2020, as Trump simultaneously vies for a second term in the November election.
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But already, several leading Senate Republicans, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, have publicly declared their intention to acquit Trump, regardless of whatever evidence is presented.
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The six also still face five other charges of property damage as well as two misdemeanors and Leibovitz denied the defense's motion to acquit on Wednesday.
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They appeared in court for the first time in 2016 until the decision to acquit them was made by a group of all-female judges in 2017.
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Susan Collins of Maine and Joni Ernst of Iowa, justified their votes to acquit by claiming Trump learned his lesson from merely being impeached by the House.
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The announcement comes a day after the Senate voted to acquit Trump on the two House-passed articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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The statement comes after Collins, widely regarded as a key swing vote, announced on the Senate floor Tuesday that she would vote to acquit Trump this week.
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Romney announced his decision in a nearly empty Senate chamber just hours before the Senate voted to acquit Trump and after fellow GOP colleagues such as Sens.
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Just two days earlier, the GOP-led Senate voted nearly along party lines to acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment that the House passed in December.
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Romney, who sharply criticized Trump's coercion of Ukraine when the scandal emerged, voted to convict him of abuse of power and acquit him of obstruction of Congress.
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One highly watched moderate Republican used Monday evening's session to end the suspense over her decision: Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she would vote to acquit.
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Democratic lawmakers say the decision by Senate Republicans not to allow witnesses at Trump's trial and to acquit him could come back to haunt them in November.
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Speaking on the Senate floor ahead of a final vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump, Romney said he expected to face backlash from his colleagues.
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Susan Collins announced on Tuesday that she would vote to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment, despite her reservations about the president's "wrong" behavior.
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Democratic House managers and President Donald Trump's legal team completed their closing arguments on Monday, ahead of a Wednesday Senate vote to convict or acquit the president.
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A quintet of senators are up in the air on whether to convict or acquit the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Such an impeachment would go forward with a significantly undeveloped record with a couple of slapdash articles, along with ample room to acquit Trump in the Senate.
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The defense attorney told the story through memorable poetic one liners ("If [the glove] doesn't fit, you must acquit") while wearing flashy black suits and rainbow ties.
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Following House approval of articles of impeachment, it will be the Senate's job to analyze these charges in a trial and decide whether to convict or acquit.
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And speaking of the jury ... check out the juror who clearly bought Johnny Cochran's famous line hook, line and sinker ... "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
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Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, announced Wednesday that he'll vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power as his party prepares to acquit the president.
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Nearly all the Roy siblings acquit themselves well during this crisis — which is surprising, given how badly they've performed in recent weeks, at Tern Haven and Argestes.
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Nearly all the Roy siblings acquit themselves well during this crisis — which is surprising, given how badly they've performed in recent weeks, at Tern Haven and Argestes.
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These closing arguments were one of the last steps before the Senate votes to convict or acquit the president of two articles of impeachment on Wednesday afternoon.
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Less that one day out from the final vote in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, we now know that almost every Republican is expected to acquit him.
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The Utah senator stands in stark contrast to every other person in the 53-member Republican conference, who all voted to acquit President Trump on both articles.
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They voted to acquit Weinstein on two predatory sexual assault charges (one in connection with Sciorra and Haley's allegations, and one in connection with Sciorra and Mann's).
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As the Senate trial looms, Republican leadership will try its utmost to enforce discipline and use its three-seat majority to acquit Trump as swiftly as possible.
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The Senate is expected to acquit Trump, as none of its 53 Republicans has voiced support for removing him, a step that requires a two-thirds majority.
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The Senate is expected to acquit him, as none of its 53 Republicans has voiced support for removing him, a step that requires a two-thirds majority.
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This peculiar Washington spectacle reflects a trial destined to acquit Trump, which both sides will want to spin in their favor as the November election draws near.
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Other Republican senators professed boredom, including Senator Thom Tillis, who said he has made up his mind to acquit Trump and dismissed the House presentation as repetitive.
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First, this would undermine the White House's and Republicans' plan to terminate the trial with a vote to acquit Mr. Trump by the end of this week.
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With 67 votes required to convict Trump and remove him from office, the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-2023 majority, is ultimately expected to acquit Trump.
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It wasn't the performance of a President shamed and cowed by impeachment ahead of a vote in the GOP-led Senate expected to acquit him on Wednesday.
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Last fall, a New Mexico judge declared a mistrial in that case after a jury was deadlocked, with nine of 12 jurors voting to acquit the men.
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You're going to have them move to push this to a final vote and then you will have a largely party line vote to acquit the president.
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If Senate Republicans refuse to convict Trump by preventing a fair trial or denying that his actions are impeachable, their verdict will not acquit him of anything.
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Senior administration officials projected confidence, calling theirs an "easy case" and predicting that the Senate would acquit the president in two weeks without hearing from any witnesses.
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If the House were to vote to impeach Trump, it would fall to the Senate to decide whether to convict or acquit, with Chief Justice Roberts presiding.
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Still, he cast doubt on the specter of impeachment influencing how foreign leaders interact with Trump, arguing there's little doubt the Senate would ultimately acquit the president.
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Some court-watchers had suggested the longer jurors considered the case, the better the chances they would acquit Guzmán or hang on any of the 10 counts.
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If those articles pass or those charges are brought forth, the Senate can hold a trial to decide if they want to convict or acquit the president.
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Ten Republicans voted to acquit Clinton on the first article of impeachment which charged perjury and five Republicans voted not guilty on the obstruction of justice article.
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The report of the documentary comes less than a week after the Senate voted to acquit Trump on impeachment charges, though Giuliani reportedly began his efforts last month.
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Republican senators sought to convince their colleagues to acquit the president, echoing the same arguments that Trump's legal team made when laying out their case on the floor.
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Vulnerable Senate GOPers like Maine's Susan Collins and Colorado's Cory Gardner won't welcome delays that could leave a vote to acquit Trump fresh in voters' minds next November.
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The impeachment trial would convict or acquit Rousseff of committing the crime of "fiscal irresponsibility" for authorizing public bank credits in the budget to cover up budget deficits.
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IN 1954 an Ohio jury was told it must acquit Sam Sheppard of murdering his wife if the jurors had a "reasonable doubt" that he had done so.
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In the final episode: senior reporter Darren Samuelsohn on the vote to acquit President Donald Trump — and Mitt Romney's vote to convict him on one article of impeachment.
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Some advisers believe a vote after what many aides expect to be an optimistic speech may increase the likelihood a handful of Democrats vote to acquit the president.
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Lisa Murkowski, another moderate Republican who voted to acquit Trump after long agonizing over the decision, was asked whether Trump had taken any lessons from the impeachment saga.
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Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, announced Wednesday that he'll vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power as his party prepares to acquit the president.
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Related: The Senate is set to acquit him on Wednesday of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and senators have been explaining their positions before the vote.
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Neither side expected to change the outcome of the final vote on Wednesday, when the Senate is all but certain to acquit the president, largely along party lines.
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In addition to Mr. Pryce, a number of familiar British character actors acquit themselves well, including David Hayman as Delaney's factotum, and Nicholas Woodeson as a slippery lawyer.
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Kanner eventually recanted and returned to his original view: "Herewith I acquit you as parents," he told an audience of mothers and fathers of autistic children in 1969.
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A trial to acquit the president or convict and remove him from office will only take place in the Senate if the full House passes articles of impeachment.
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" Given these facts, sticking with the other Republicans and voting to acquit "would, I fear, expose my character to history's rebuke and the censure of my own conscience.
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But the onslaught of criticism against Mr. Bloomberg, and his inability to effectively acquit himself on the stage, tested some of his campaign's central assumptions about his strengths.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night, just one day before the Senate decides whether to acquit him of impeachment charges.
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Days after the Republican-controlled Senate voted to acquit Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress charges, the president fired National Security Council official Lt. Col.
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But most of the caucus, including McConnell, has backed having no witnesses, arguing that they want a speedy trial that lets them acquit the president and move on.
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Bets that he would vote to acquit Trump were at $0.65 on Thursday, translating to a 65% chance the senator would vote against removing the president from office.
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For days, we've heard little from the key senators who are still on the fence with whether to call witnesses and whether to vote to acquit or convict.
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At this point, it seems unlikely that a final vote to acquit Trump will occur Friday night, but definitive details of the Senate trial's timing remain extremely fluid.
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Ms. Collins, one of a handful of moderate Republicans whose votes could alter the trajectory of the trial, said she does not regret her votes to acquit then.
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Bloomberg reports that there is a consensus building among Senate Republicans for a short impeachment trial, with a vote to acquit the president before hearing from any witnesses.
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She will also have to consider her long-established brand as an independent-minded moderate, which surely will come under attack from Democrats if she votes to acquit.
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Stung by the historic stain of impeachment, Trump might at least by now have been looking forward to a Senate trial that is expected to easily acquit him.
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But don't hold your breath for the President to be kicked out of office — the trial in the Republican-led Senate is just as likely to acquit him.
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The film focuses on the efforts of a lawyer, played by Michael B. Jordan, to acquit a black man (Jamie Foxx) wrongfully imprisoned for killing a white woman.
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During President Andrew Johnson's impeachment, the Senate voted to acquit Abraham Lincoln's successor on three House-passed articles dealing with his handling of reconstruction after the Civil War.
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Richard Blumenthal, a frequent Trump critic, also said he had a difficult time putting into words what the president's reaction would be should the Senate vote to acquit.
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Most Senate Republicans will likely defend Trump and vote to acquit him in an impeachment trial, but joining Kennedy's Ukraine theories is a bridge too far for them.
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House leaders have given little indication they intend to continue pursuing the Ukraine matter now that the Senate has voted to acquit Trump, almost entirely along party lines.
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" McConnell stopped short of directly calling on the Senate to acquit Trump, but stressed that he thought the chamber must "put this right" and "rise to the occasion.
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Vulnerable swing state Senate Republicans, especially those such as Colorado's Cory Gardner or Maine's Susan Collins, must also consider the political consequences of a vote to acquit Trump.
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Meanwhile, judges who have dared to acquit an alleged blasphemer or convict the killer of an alleged blasphemer have either had to flee the country or face death.
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The speaker has been clear that she does not want the Democratic-led House to impeach Trump only to see the Republican-led Senate acquit him of the charges.
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The country's highest court reaffirmed an earlier decision to acquit a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, of blasphemy charges which had led to her spending eight years on death row.
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A court must now set a date for a hearing at which a judge will decide whether to accept the prosecutors' request for a trial or acquit the accused.
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It's unclear what led the Justice Department to return to Schiff's request 10 months later on the eve of the Senate's decision to acquit Trump on two impeachment charges.
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"Deep in my heart, I done what I felt was right at that time," says one juror, a black woman, of her vote to acquit in the 1995 trial.
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And then Republicans are right back where they began: deciding not just whether they can defend the indefensible, but whether they can acquit it of all charges as well.
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In overturning a lower court's earlier decision to acquit Maknun, the top court ordered the six-month jail term as well as a fine of 500 million rupiah ($35,000).
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Our belated indictment of him now does too much to acquit his many accomplices, and too little to transform a culture that never gave him a reason to change.
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One way the defense could undermine the government's case would be to raise questions about possible bias and create enough doubt among the jurors that they vote to acquit.
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But, the Republican-majority Senate is reportedly going to acquit Trump of all charges instead, ending the impeachment trial and leaving Trump to continue running for a second term.
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If Friday's vote on new witnesses fails, the Senate could move forward with a final vote on whether to convict or acquit the president as early as Friday afternoon.
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It's a small but forceful slight to a Republican Party that's in all likelihood about to acquit a president for impeachable offenses, not even bothering to hear from witnesses.
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" Lichtman added, "If you're willing to look past the name El Chapo you have the tools to acquit ... You don't have to give into the myth of El Chapo.
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President Trump delivered his third State of the Union, after a day of Senate commentary on the impeachment and a day before the senators are expected to acquit him.
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It rained here the day the Senate voted to acquit the president of the United States of wrongdoing even as many of them publicly admitted he had done wrong.
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Notable among them were the condemnations of Republicans who accepted the truth of the accusations against Mr. Trump even as they said they planned to vote to acquit him.
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While the question about witnesses remains to be determined, the GOP-controlled Senate is viewed as all but guaranteed to acquit Trump since 67 votes are needed to convict.
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A large majority of Republicans were always expected to vote against new witnesses, which would set up a final vote where they could acquit Trump by late next week.
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Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who also will be targeted by Democrats, told CNN he's ready to acquit Trump, while McSally has shown no signs she's prepared to defect.
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That debate should take place on or around Friday, and if the vote fails, the Senate could swiftly decide to acquit the President, and this would all be over.
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Trump has stated his preference for calling witnesses and extending the proceedings, believing the Republican-led Senate will not only acquit him but vindicate him from accusations of wrongdoing.
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But Mr. Trump has said he is open to witnesses; with the Senate all but certain to acquit him, he is demanding a speedy trial to clear his name.
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The GOP-controlled chamber is expected to acquit Trump of the charges, as there are no signs that 67 senators might consider voting to remove him under any circumstances.
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The Senate may then choose to acquit but the standard of conduct for future presidents has not been lowered by the adoption a narrow threshold definition in the House.
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Internal emails and testimonies could come under closer scrutiny as impeachment proceedings move to the Republican-majority Senate, which will hold a trial and most likely acquit the president.
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If the House were to approve articles of impeachment, it would be the Senate's job to analyze these charges in a trial and decide whether to convict or acquit.
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Early indications are that Manchin is more likely than Jones to vote to acquit Trump, but both are considered more in play than the rest of their Democratic colleagues.
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The White House is seeking a relatively brief trial that concludes with Trump's exoneration, and several Republican senators have indicated they'd prefer a quick process to acquit the president.
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Everyone knows how it ends in the short term: The Republican lawmakers who control the Senate are already boasting that they will acquit Donald Trump of his impeachment charges.
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Under the Constitution, it's up to the House to charge the President with impeachment, and the Senate to convict or acquit -- making senators, including McConnell, the de facto jury.
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Last week, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court's decision to acquit her, imposed the jail term and also ordered her to pay a 500 million rupiah ($35,474) fine.
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Senate Republicans voted to acquit Trump of abuse of power for pressing Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden, a contender for the Democratic nomination to face Trump on Nov.
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And the very real possibility that if the Democratic-controlled House impeaches Trump, then the Republican-led Senate will hold a trial to decide whether to acquit or remove him.
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GRAPHIC: Impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump - here The Senate then voted 22016-47 to acquit him of obstruction of Congress by blocking witnesses and documents sought by the House.
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With little hope of changing any of the senators' minds on whether to acquit Mr. Trump on Wednesday, House managers and Mr. Trump's lawyers focused instead on the upcoming election.
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TWO of the jurors who sat in judgment at Willie Dunn junior's murder trial in 2011 thought he had a plausible claim to self-defence, and voted to acquit him.
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The decision to acquit Parker came after juries in Huntsville, Alabama twice deadlocked on whether Parker deprived the grandfather of his civil rights in a case that drew international attention.
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No, they thought completely different and they came to their vote to acquit O.J. for completely different reasons, and I thought it was pretty important for people to see that.
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"It's going to be a hung jury," said Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby, who told CNN she would have voted to acquit on all charges if she had stayed on the jury.
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But the jury, in a verdict on Thursday that surprised almost everyone, including the defendants and their lawyers, rejected the government's case entirely, voting unanimously to acquit all seven defendants.
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But these failures of judgment from others do not acquit Comey, whose actions have been, at the least, questionable — and, perhaps, illegal — since he may have violated the Hatch Act.
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Rao also repeatedly cited the Senate's decision to acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment last month as a development that could diminish the House's need to access Mueller's evidence.
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"It was a tough decision," he said, adding that he had initially voted to acquit on both charges, but he was persuaded to change his vote on the conspiracy charge.
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Ms. Crawford said the frustrations of confinement could have played a part in the fact that the Simpson jury took only one day to reach its decision to acquit him.
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Alexander said Trump's conduct doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense, and Murkowski announced she will announce her decision on whether to convict or acquit Trump later Monday.
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The national address, which will draw one of Trump's largest audiences of the year, comes just a day before the Senate is set to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial.
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The national address, which will draw one of Trump's largest audiences of the year, comes just a day before the Senate is set to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial.
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The questioning period will likely unfold over multiple days, and could prove critical in determining whether the Senate hears from additional witnesses or moves right to voting to acquit Trump.
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Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 3 Senate Republican, declared that he had "heard enough" and predicted that the Senate would vote to acquit the president by week's end.
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Though the Republican-controlled Senate is widely expected to acquit Trump, a survey of polls by CNN found opposition just about edging out support for impeaching and removing the president.
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On Wednesday, in an unsurprising move, senators voted in an almost party-line vote to acquit Trump of the two charges against him — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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If you were a member of the Senate, would you have voted to convict or acquit President Trump on both charges facing him — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress?
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That makes at least five Republicans who have said they'd acquit the president even though they think he really did try to get Ukraine to interfere in the upcoming election.
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I'm voting to acquit because I do not believe that the behavior alleged reaches the high bar in the constitution for overturning an election and removing a duly-elected president.
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"The truth is that, absent some radical change in the dynamic, the House is inevitably going to impeach Trump and the Senate is inevitably going to acquit him," they wrote.
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Asked when the vote might take place to settle the debate over witnesses and move to either acquit or convict Trump, Barrasso said probably Friday afternoon or late that day.
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If these arguments are anything like those made on the first day, it's clear Senate Republicans, who are overwhelmingly expected to acquit the president, have some serious reckoning to do.
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If Friday's expected vote on new witnesses fails, the Senate could move forward with a final vote on whether to convict or acquit the president as early as Friday afternoon.
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If Senate Republicans vote to acquit the president, the GOP will surely gloat and dismiss the entire saga as a reflection of how far partisan Democrats are willing to go.
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If the Democratic-majority House votes to impeach Trump by year's end, the Republican-run Senate would likely begin a trial in January and is expected to acquit the president.
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There is no guarantee, of course, that a Democratic juror would vote to convict an indicated member of the Trump administration, or that a Republican juror would vote to acquit.
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The ME's report revelation that Prince died from a self-administered dose of Fentanyl ... seems to acquit Kornfeld and his father, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, of any involvement in the death.
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Collins cited her vote to acquit former President Clinton in 1999 despite House managers proving that he committed a crime but said his conduct did not meet the threshold of impeachment.
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There's talk of pausing the debate once the resolution is adopted and reconvening early next week to hold the final deliberations before voting on whether to convict or acquit the president.
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It was an address steeped in partisan warfare, and it was delivered less than 24 hours before the GOP Senate is expected to vote to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial.
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The jury reached a so-called majority verdict, in which at least 10 members had to vote to acquit, after it was unable to reach a unanimous decision the day before.
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Based on the facts in this case, Judge Williams was spot on in his decision to acquit Officer Nero of all charges brought in connection with the death of Freddie Gray.
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The final vote in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is set for Wednesday afternoon, with the Senate expected to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Trump's remarks in the Capitol on Tuesday night will come amid his impeachment trial, with senators likely to acquit him largely along party lines in a vote slated for Wednesday afternoon.
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The Republican-controlled Senate is all but certain to acquit Trump on the impeachment articles approved by the Democrat-controlled House, which accuse Trump of abusing his power and obstructing Congress.
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The warnings are a tacit acknowledgement that it would be politically risky to simply discard articles of impeachment — even though all Senate Republicans may ultimately opt to acquit the president. Sen.
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U.S. District Judge William Walls moved last week to acquit Menendez and his co-defendant, Salomon Melgen, of seven of the 18 charges they faced in their corruption and bribery trial.
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The mark of a mature, fair criminal justice system is its willingness to acquit defendants when the evidence for conviction is insufficient and even when an acquittal will provoke widespread condemnation.
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The chamber is widely expected to acquit the president, and last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Trump to get his permission to push the final vote to this week.
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The Republican-led Senate refused to hear from additional witnesses or seek new documents on Friday; they are virtually certain to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment on Wednesday.
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Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have yet to reveal whether they will vote to convict or acquit — and both could peel away from their party, largely due to pressure from constituents.
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After a contentious and relatively quick Senate trial, the Republican majority is set to acquit Trump of the two articles of impeachment on a mostly party line vote at 4 p.m.
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It remains unclear whether the Democrats' arguments are having any effect on Republican senators in the GOP-controlled upper chamber, which is widely expected to acquit the president on both charges.
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Va.), Doug Jones (Ala.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) will be under close scrutiny, with the three Democrats viewed as potential swing votes on whether or not to convict or acquit Trump.
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The first: How in God's name — and it was in God's name — can the Republicans who have already decided to acquit President Trump take a solemn oath to administer "impartial justice"?
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If Mr. Gardner ends up vocally supporting the president, or votes to acquit him in the trial, it will complicate and perhaps even endanger his race to hold onto his seat.
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But even he might struggle to swiftly acquit Trump, convince Americans the trial is not purely for show and at the same time protect vulnerable swing state members from political damage.
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Trump wants a more showy proceeding to not only acquit but vindicate him of the impeachment charges from the House, though he has instructed officials not to appear in the House.
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The reason Republicans wouldn't hear John Bolton's testimony, despite a book manuscript suggesting he has new and damning evidence against Trump's defense, is that they had already decided to acquit Trump.
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Their reasoning is easy enough to understand: They were committed to voting to acquit Trump, so a full and extended airing of the facts could only set them up for embarrassment.
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Susan Collins (R-ME) out it when explaining she would vote to acquit Trump, she (and surely others) claim Trump has "learned" from the impeachment experience and will alter his behavior.
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I urge every one of our colleagues to cast the vote, the facts, the evidence, the constitution, and the common good clearly require, vote to acquit the president of these charges.
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Hayes Brown: Truly, this is clearly someone who has several senators who voted to acquit him, said, has learned- DJT: We went through hell unfairly, did nothing wrong, did nothing wrong.
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WASHINGTON — Even as they are set to acquit President Trump in his impeachment trial this week, Senate Republicans appear to be increasingly breaking with his defense that he did nothing wrong.
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As in the Kavanaugh confirmation, Mr. McConnell has no worries whatsoever about the vast majority of Senate Republicans who appear ready to acquit the president without going much beyond opening arguments.
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The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to quickly acquit Trump, so the White House's goal with the impeachment trial is to sway public opinion ahead of Trump's crucial 2020 reelection bid.
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For any moderate Republican senator who may not like what the facts already show about his campaign of pressure on Ukraine, the theory provides an alternative rationale to acquit the president.
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Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Jim Jordan of Ohio or Doug Collins of Georgia might not work in the President's favor when trying to appeal to moderate Republicans to acquit him.
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But they also raise the possibility that Republicans could vote to acquit Trump and then could pay a political price down the road if Bolton's book reveals new evidence of misconduct.
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Trump and his aides have long eyed a Senate trial as the venue for eventual vindication in the saga, viewing the Republican-led chamber as a lock to acquit the President.
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One of the worst US presidents While Kennedy called the decision to vote to acquit Johnson a "profile in courage," the larger narrative of Johnson's presidency is not a good one.
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In a joint statement, they described Hafeez's condemnation by a lower court last week as a "travesty of justice" and said senior judges should acquit the former university lecturer on appeal.
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If she votes to acquit the president, the state's resurgent Democratic Party and its national allies are likely to clobber her as out of step with the state's light blue hue.
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The judge, in one of his corrected instructions to the jury on Thursday, said accepting Forcillo's testimony — that he believed he had reasonable grounds to shoot Yatim — wasn't enough to acquit him.
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Capito added a caveat, though it didn't stop her from voting to acquit Trump: "Although he may not, because you know, as we've said, as was said, he is who he is."
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The speech came weeks after the House impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and one day before the GOP-controlled Senate is likely to vote to acquit him.
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Wednesday marked the end of Trump's impeachment fight in Congress, with the GOP-led Senate voting nearly along party lines to acquit the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Some Republican senators have begun defending their upcoming vote to acquit Mr. Trump with the argument that while what the president did may have been inappropriate, it is not an impeachable offense.
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Bless the people who have given us The Whole Truth, which features Keanu Reeves as a criminal defense lawyer who's determined to acquit a teenage boy accused of killing his own father.
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"It was only just to acquit Oric of war crimes charges," Hatidza Mehmedovic, a Bosnian Muslim who lost her husband and two sons in the Srebrenica massacre, told the Fena news agency.
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The vote appeared likely to fail, however, as a key Republican said he would vote against allowing new testimony, boosting odds the Senate will vote to acquit in a matter of days.
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If a simple majority of members of the House voted to pass articles of impeachment, the US Senate would then hold a trial to convict or acquit Trump based on those charges.
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In a video Jones prepared in response to the lawsuit, he rejected the accusation that any of the InfoWars content about Gilmore was knowingly false, and predicted any jury would acquit him.
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The administration's plan: The White House is seeking a relatively brief trial that concludes with Trump's exoneration, and several Republican senators have indicated they'd prefer a quick process to acquit the president.
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Just last week, Mr. Trump acknowledged that Democrats appeared to have enough votes to impeach him in the House and that he was counting on the Republican-controlled Senate to acquit him.
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Senate Republicans, by and large, are poised to stay united and acquit Trump, though House impeachment managers have tried their best to make that decision a tough one for moderate GOP members.
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The few Republican lawmakers who, finally, during his impeachment and justifying their intention to acquit him, criticized Trump's behavior with regard to Ukraine, said the people should get to choose their president.
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Joni Ernst, a Republican up for reelection in Iowa, said Tuesday that she would vote to acquit Trump, adding that she's angry and thinks most people are upset by the impeachment process.
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The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives is expected to formally send the charges to the Senate this week, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to help acquit his fellow Republican.
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Some have argued that the vote to convict or acquit also be held by secret ballot (as in the case of ordinary juries) to allow senators to vote without fear of retribution.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans who voted to acquit President Donald Trump of impeachment charges last week said that it's fine that he fired government personnel who testified against him during the House's investigation.
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But in the end, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was able to convince his conference to block witnesses, laying the groundwork for Republicans to acquit the president in the next few days.
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Senators are expected to vote on Friday about whether to hear new witnesses, and Republicans appeared confident they would have enough support to block any new testimony and ultimately acquit Mr. Trump.
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Trump's defense team completed their opening statements Tuesday afternoon, wrapping up a series of arguments to convince the Republican-led Senate to acquit the president of the two impeachment charges against him.
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The defense: Hours before McConnell circulated the ground rules, Trump's legal team submitted a 110-page brief calling on the Senate to "immediately" acquit the president and "swiftly reject" the impeachment charges.
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Should the House vote to impeach Trump, he would face a multi-week trial in the Senate, which will then decide whether to convict or acquit him on two articles of impeachment.
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The news did not affect risk appetite - the safe-haven Japanese yen was flat against the dollar - because the Republican-controlled Senate is widely expected to acquit Trump, leaving him in office.
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The full House is expected to vote on the articles Wednesday, and if they pass, impeachment proceedings will move to the Republican-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit the president.
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Recall that in the case of former President Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings, the House voted to approve two articles of impeachment while the Senate, on both counts, ultimately voted to acquit him.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticized the Turkish court's verdict as an "attempt to acquit [Kavala] with a maneuver" and the judges who declared the nine defendants not guilty will reportedly be investigated.
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The court also ruled to acquit journalist and brother Mehmet Altan from both charges including constitution violation and aiding the Gulen network, due to lack of sufficient and convincing evidence, Anadolu said.
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Pelosi then ripped into Trump during a private meeting of Democrats on Wednesday morning, hours before the Senate voted to acquit the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Republicans, who believe it is likely the House will impeach Trump, are weighing what is best for their party: a rapid dismissal of impeachment or a vote to acquit Trump after a trial.
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The Senate is set to hold a final vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump of the two charges against him — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — at about 4 p.m.
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Ten days were allowed for the jurors to reflect; in the meantime Butler persuaded the House to demand an investigation of the jurors, lest any had succumbed to bribery in voting to acquit.
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Rio de Janeiro (CNN)Brazil's top electoral court voted to acquit President Michel Temer and former President Dilma Rousseff following an investigation of allegations they received illegal campaign funds in the 2014 elections.
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That helped persuade Egypt to acquit employees of several American and European institutes who were charged for doing democracy-related work and to suspend implementation of a law cracking down on such groups.
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He told the defendants and their family members that he wanted to acquit the men but was being pressured from above to convict, according to four people who were present at the hearing.
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If the GOP-majority Senate votes against witnesses, then the trial could quickly proceed to a final vote on whether to acquit Trump or remove him from office as soon as next week.
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Romney was the only Republican to vote in favor of convicting Trump for abuse of power, though he joined the rest of the GOP in voting to acquit Trump for obstruction of Congress.
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As the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to quickly acquit Trump, the White House's primary goal for the proceedings is to sway public opinion in the president's favor amid his 2020 reelection campaign.
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The Senate is expected to acquit Trump, as none of its 53 Republicans have voiced support for ousting him, a step that would require a two-thirds majority in the 100-member chamber.
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Democratic senators spent Tuesday railing against proposed rules that would allow the Senate to more quickly dismiss the charges or vote to acquit without hearing from witnesses, before McConnell altered the proposed rules.
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The all-caps tweet only underscored how Mr. Trump has become increasingly unnerved by the prospect of a Senate trial, even one in which his Republican allies are widely expected to acquit him.
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Trump, Barr, and the GOP may hope that the Senate trial — which right now appears poised to acquit him on partisan lines, without calling further witnesses — will put an end to this scandal.
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McConnell is expected to hold a vote to acquit Trump should the president ultimately be impeached in the House rather than move to dismiss any articles of impeachment sent from the lower chamber.
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Mr. Romney chatted warmly with his colleague and seatmate, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who a few days earlier had said he would vote to acquit the president on both impeachment counts.
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During the sentencing Thursday, she excoriated the defense over its closing argument, riffing on the refrain of "So what?" that the defense used in its unsuccessful bid to get jurors to acquit Stone.
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Republican lawmakers, who nearly all voted to acquit Trump of impeachment charges, offered muted criticism of the president but shrugged off suggestions they should investigate whether his political concerns were influencing law enforcement.
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Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama, have left open the possibility that they might acquit Trump on either of the two charges -- abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Schiff also sought to raise the heat on Republican senators over Bolton and also apparently to shape the political battlefield should they take a different route and quickly vote to acquit the President.
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And remember, there are two articles of impeachment, so these senators could vote to remove Trump on the first article -- abuse of power -- and to acquit him on the second -- obstruction of Congress.
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Trump will give his State of the Union address in the capitol tonight, and senators are expected to vote to acquit him tomorrow on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Schumer goads Trump The standoff means Trump will be left in limbo over his holiday break at his Florida resort, itching for a Senate trial that is all but certain to acquit him.
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Every Republican in the House voted against impeachment, and Republicans in the Senate are expected to band together to acquit Trump at the end of his impeachment trial, likely to start in January.
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It is still the case that Trump is very likely to be impeached once the House wraps up its inquiry; it also remains true that the Senate is very likely to acquit him.
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If the Democratic-controlled chamber votes to impeach the president by a simple majority vote, the impeachment proceedings will head to the Republican-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit the president.
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"[W]e are winning big, and they will soon be on our turf," Trump said, referring to the impeachment trial in the GOP-led Senate, which is widely expected to acquit the president.
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Two senators told CNN that McConnell is leaning toward a procedural framework that would allow senators to fully acquit the President, clearing Trump of all charges against him, instead of simply dismissing them.
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It only takes 153 senators to acquit There are currently 54 Republicans, which means 20 would have to side with all Democrats and two independents to convict Trump and remove him from office.
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Although the president was acquitted in his impeachment trial by Senate Republicans, the arguments made on his behalf hardly acquit him with respect to the rule of law, constitutional history, or plain common sense.
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What really happened: On Wednesday afternoon, the day after the State of the Union address, the Senate voted—mostly along party lines—to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment brought against him.
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"If you find that the House has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of iron and for all of history," he said.
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"If you find that the House has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of his and for all of history," he said.
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What they are not considering is this: Once they vote to acquit him, they are no longer differing with him over policy; they aren't rejecting an unqualified nominee or upholding traditional U.S. foreign policy.
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"As fair-minded jurors, judges, and representatives of the American people, you must hear all the testimony and examine all the evidence possible before casting your vote to either convict or acquit," he wrote.
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As part of that discussion, Senator Collins believed that before Senators cast their final votes they should have the opportunity to stand up and briefly state their reasons for voting to acquit or convict.
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Trump's remarks before a joint session of Congress came one day before the Republican-controlled Senate is widely expected to acquit him of articles of impeachment brought against him by the Democrat-controlled House.
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They have made crystal clear that they believe there will never be polling favorable enough to pressure Republicans to convict Trump in a congressional impeachment trial, and that the Senate will ultimately acquit him.
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President Donald Trump will give his third State of the Union address tonight, the night before the Senate will likely vote to acquit him of the two charges he faces in his impeachment trial.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Aimee Hector acknowledged with hindsight that the arguments could have been handled differently, but said Jackson's comments were in response to defense arguments that jurors should have the courage to acquit.
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If the GOP holds together and a Democrat votes to acquit Trump, it would hand the White House a ready-made point to underscore its argument that the House engaged in a partisan impeachment.
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As Freud indicates, this can be a successful way to argue a case, since members of the jury only need to buy one of the arguments to acquit the man who damaged the kettle.
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A pharmacist convicted of helping New England Compounding Center mislead customers about how it produced drugs ahead of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 urged a federal judge on Wednesday to acquit him.
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But neither ultimately will impeachment since all that the House can do is vote to put Trump on trial in the Senate, where the Republican majority surely will acquit him without circumscribing his powers.
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Yet, as admirably as they acquit themselves in Cat Parker's Articulate Theater Company production at 13E59 Theaters, there is the dispiriting sense of watching talented actors trapped in a show that they cannot save.
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The Senate voted to acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment this month, marking the end to a bitterly fought, divisive trial that will reverberate into this year's election and shape his presidential legacy.
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WASHINGTON -- The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate have reached a deal to postpone the final vote in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, whether to convict or acquit him, until Wednesday, Feb. 5.
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Although the jury chose to acquit Weinstein in New York of first-degree rape and predatory sexual assault, he was found guilty of third-degree rape and criminal sexual acts in the first degree.
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"If you find that the House has proved its case, and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history," he said.
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Some Republicans reflected the pressure of their looming vote to acquit Trump despite an incriminating evidentiary record of his behavior in Ukraine, offering veiled criticism of his conduct that could anger some GOP voters.
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Washington (CNN)A day before the Senate votes on whether to convict or acquit him on two charges of impeachment, President Donald Trump gave his annual State of the Union speech in the House.
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The revelation complicates Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate, where senators are bitterly divided over whether to hear from witnesses like Bolton or move straight to a vote to acquit or convict the president.
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The merits of the impeachment case aside, Trump's lawyers have frequently argued throughout the trial that Senators should acquit Trump because removing him would "overturn" a fair election and the will of the voters.
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McConnell as Rules chairman in 21625 during the Clinton trial said that a final Senate vote to convict or acquit the president could not be avoided, although he also endorsed conducting the trial quickly.
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The videos also add credibility to a case that Republican senators, almost all of whom are expected to vote to acquit the President, are being faced to hear in relentless, repetitive and incriminating detail.
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He showed no change of heart when he quickly make political hay over a jury's decision earlier this month to acquit an undocumented immigrant of killing a young woman in San Francisco in 85033.
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"If you find that the House has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history," Schiff said.
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Mr. McConnell has not agreed to have any witnesses testify, making it clear that he would prefer to sweep the entire sordid business under the rug and acquit the president as quickly as possible.
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While the Senate is expected to acquit Trump and leave him in office no matter what happens, allowing witnesses could inflict political damage on the president as he seeks re-election on Nov. 3.
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However, with Senate Republicans grotesquely eager to simply acquit the president, the strategy of Pelosi holding out for witnesses in the trial was politically counterproductive, even if it was morally, ethically, and legally correct.
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While Trump had privately advocated for a theatrical trial that doesn't just acquit him, but vindicates him, he has begun to come around to McConnell's idea of a truncated timeline with no live testimony.
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Any Democratic vote to acquit the President would give Trump and other Republicans the propaganda win of being able to argue that he had been acquitted in the Senate trial by a bipartisan majority.
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As Pelosi has highlighted in the past, the largest obstacle to advancing impeachment proceedings is likely Senate Republicans, who are widely expected to acquit Trump of any charges if the process gets that far.
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"We urge Pakistan's superior courts to promptly hear his appeal, overturn the death sentence and acquit him," said the independent experts who include U.N. investigators on freedom of religion, unlawful killings and arbitrary detention.
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Instead, a safer bet might be for Republicans to go forward with an impeachment trial and ultimately vote to acquit, a way to demonstrate their commitment to historic precedent while achieving the same result.
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Shortly after she became one of just five Republican senators to vote to acquit President Bill Clinton on both charges of impeachment, Susan Collins returned to Skowhegan for the state party's Lincoln Day dinner.
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The Senate is expected to begin its trial after its members return, where they have the power to convict the president with a two-thirds majority — thus removing him from office — or acquit him.
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She remembers and details of the case thoroughly, and came to the conclusion of voting to acquit O.J. based on her feelings the prosecution did not prove O.J.'s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardSenate votes to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment Manchin will vote to convict Trump 2020 Democrats ramped up private flight spending in final months of 2019 MORE (D-Hawaii) at 2 percent.
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The passive-aggressive exchanges between the president and Speaker have only inflamed partisan tensions on a day when the Senate — after a weeks-long impeachment trial — will vote mostly along party lines to acquit Trump.
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After five months of bitter fight between House impeachment managers and Trump's defence team, the Senate voted to acquit Trump 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress.
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President Trump unleashed his fury against those who tried to remove him from office at a prayer breakfast Thursday, a day after Senators voted to acquit, or clear him of charges, in his impeachment trial.
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To make things worse, it's beginning to look more and more that no Republican senators will vote to convict President Trump in the impeachment trial and that two or three Democrats will vote to acquit.
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The Senate voted 20163-22016 to acquit Trump of abuse of power stemming from his request that Ukraine investigate political rival Joe Biden, a contender for the Democratic nomination to face him in the Nov.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) left Republican senators with a warning that a deluge of new evidence is poised to emerge in the Ukraine saga, even if they follow through with their plans to acquit Trump.
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Later, they also filed a motion with the judge asking her to acquit Stone on charges of lying to Congress, saying the government had failed to prove that Stone actually had any intermediary with WikiLeaks.
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Collins, a source close to the Maine Republican said, was "trying to help come up with a solution" that would allow senators an opportunity to voice their reasoning on whether to convict or acquit Trump.
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And the White House has reportedly not ruled out that a red-state Democrat like Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona or Doug Jones of Alabama could vote to acquit the president.
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But if most Republicans get their way, no witnesses will be called and the Senate will move toward a vote to acquit the president — all before Trump's State of the Union address on Feb. 4.
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So in an impeachment trial, where it is more or less seen 22020% clear that Republican colleagues of yours in the Senate would acquit the president, this seems like a pretty unexpected and damning development.
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John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and member of McConnell's leadership team, said Monday he would prefer a vote to acquit the President on the merits, rather than seek a quick vote to dismiss the charges.
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Pence praises Ross, who broke with his party and is generally considered to have cast the deciding vote to acquit President Andrew Johnson after Johnson became the first American president to be impeached in 1868.
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"I believe the vote on witnesses will be more politically perilous for the vulnerable Republican senators than the ultimate vote to acquit or convict," said Paul Begala, a veteran Democratic strategist and a CNN contributor.
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Said a different way, if the jurors had decided to acquit Mr. Weinstein on the charges involving Ms. Mann and Ms. Haley, they would not need to continue deliberating on the charges involving Ms. Sciorra.
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And the day after his address, the president had an appointment with predestination, as the Senate was scheduled for a Wednesday vote that would, barring shocking news or mass hypnosis, acquit him on impeachment charges.
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For both the Senate majority leader, whose majority is endangered, and a president facing reelection in nearly 10 months, the overwhelming concern is kicking off the proceeding so they can hurry up and acquit Trump.
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Critical Capitol Hill battles While the Senate trial is almost certain to acquit Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, the Capitol Hill exchanges in the next few days represent a vital twist in the story.
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While Schumer wants some of the president&aposs top aides and others to testify, McConnell wants to exclude witnesses from testifying in order to speed up the process and acquit Trump as quickly as possible.
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Indeed, if the Senate votes to acquit Trump, as it is expected to do, the precedent will be set, and the die will be cast: A president can do almost anything to win re-election.
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The Senate is expected to acquit Trump, but Democratic leaders are pressuring McConnell to hold a "fair" trial by calling witnesses like former national security adviser John Bolton and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
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The judge, William H. Walls, filed the opinion in Federal District Court in Newark in response to a motion to acquit the men on all charges after their trial ended in a mistrial in November.
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If they accepted one or both of Forcillo's defenses or were left with a reasonable doubt, they would have to acquit him, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Then told the jury in a lengthy, detailed charge.
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READ: It's over: The Senate voted to acquit President Trump of impeachment In an interview on Fox News immediately after his speech, news anchor Chris Wallace raised the possibility that Trump would seek retribution against Romney.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardSenate votes to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment Manchin will vote to convict Trump 2020 Democrats ramped up private flight spending in final months of 2019 MORE (D-Hawaii): Nashua and Litchfield Sen.
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The poll, released on the eve of a likely Senate vote to acquit him on impeachment charges and at the outset of an election year, found 2628 percent of those surveyed disapprove of Trump's job performance.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardSenate votes to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment Manchin will vote to convict Trump 2202 Democrats ramped up private flight spending in final months of 2628 MORE (D-Hawaii) and former Massachusetts Gov.
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Roberts described his role as one with "ill-defined responsibilities in an unfamiliar setting" in remarks shortly after the chamber voted to acquit Trump on two impeachment charges for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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The Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to acquit Trump for asking a foreign country to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, closing a four-month political drama with a stunning display of Trump's dominance over congressional Republicans.
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Romney announced his shocking decision in a speech on the Senate floor shortly before the chamber was expected to vote to acquit Trump of two articles of impeachment: abuse of his office and obstruction of Congress.
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She has held up the 1999 Clinton impeachment trial as an important precedent and noted in a recent New York Times interview that she voted to acquit him, possibly foreshadowing her vote in the Trump trial.
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Indeed, juries are so powerful that they have the inherent power even to acquit a defendant that they believe guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, if they disagree with the law itself, or simply like the defendant.
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The court reversed a 2017 verdict that found Jose Inez Garcia Zarate guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm, saying the court erred in not instructing jurors of an option to acquit him.
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And asked by CNN after the Mueller hearing if she's still concerned that the GOP-led Senate would acquit the President, making impeachment fruitless, she claimed she was "never" concerned about what the Senate would do.
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Final arguments of Trump's impeachment trial took place on Monday and a final vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress will take place on Wednesday.
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The Senate voted to acquit Trump after his impeachment by the House, and although House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says House Democrats will "likely" subpoena Bolton in the future, lives are being ruined in the meantime.
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ET. The Senate is poised to acquit Trump, as a conviction would require a two-thirds majority, but there still is some uncertainty over the margin of the vote — and whether any senators cross party lines.
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Those surveyed were mostly split on whether the Senate should vote to acquit or convict the president, with 49 percent saying Trump should not be removed from office and 47 percent saying he should be ousted.
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A vote to move to consider witnesses was short on GOP senators, and how quickly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could move to the vote to acquit Trump had become the central question in GOP circles.
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Yet McConnell added that — given the evidence today — he doesn't "think there's any question" the Senate will acquit Trump, a powerful message to the Republican rank-and-file senators he's led for the past 12 years.
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Joe Manchin of West Virginia, another politically vulnerable senator who is serving as a juror in the impeachment trial, is likely to buck his party and vote to acquit the president, people on the site predicted.
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The Senate is almost certain to acquit Trump of the charges, as a two-thirds Senate majority is required to remove Trump and none of the chamber's 53 Republicans have indicated they will vote to convict.
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We begin with the president's defense lawyer, Eric Hirschman, using his time on the Senate floor to have a little campaign rally for the president, arguing that the wall is a reason to acquit Trump. Really.
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The Senate, where Trump's Republican party holds a majority, is widely expected to acquit Trump of the charges, as no Republicans have voiced support for ousting him, a step that would require a two-thirds majority.
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Throughout the impeachment inquiry, Trump's lawyers urged senators to acquit Trump on the obstruction charge, which House Democrats approved after Trump told senior aides not to testify, even those with firsthand knowledge in the Ukraine affair.
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Doug Jones of Alabama suggested that he might vote to acquit Mr. Trump on the obstruction of Congress charge, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he thought that Hunter Biden might be a relevant witness.
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Given the near-certainty that Senate Republicans will acquit Trump of any article of impeachment, no matter how well-substantiated, the only question many are asking now is which candidate can beat the President in 2020.
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That came after two October lunches at the White House between Trump and a total of 19 Republican senators, in which Trump discussed impeachment with the same people who will vote to convict or acquit him.
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The court voted 4-3 to acquit the Rousseff-Temer ticket, avoiding the removal from office of the center-right Temer who has been besieged by economic recession and corruption scandals since replacing Rousseff last year.
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First, it is an end-run around the process set forth in the Constitution: the House votes to impeach, then the Senate holds a trial and votes either to acquit or to convict and remove from office.
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Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment and endured widespread derision for saying she believed Trump had "learned from this case" and would be "much more cautious" going forward.
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On the first article, 85033 senators voted to acquit and 48 senators voted to convict; Romney was the lone Republican to join Democratic senators in voting to remove Trump from office on the abuse of power charge.
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All Senate Democrats and seven Republicans voted to acquit him on the impeachment charges, which centered on his defiance of a law the Republican majorities passed to prevent him from dismissing executive branch officials without congressional approval.
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Senator Susan Collins justified her vote to acquit the president Tuesday by saying she hopes the impeachment trial has taught Trump a "lesson," but it's clear from the president's words and actions that the opposite is true.
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" Speaking on Fox News following the Senate's vote to acquit Trump, Collins said that her previous comments stemmed from a hope that the president would listen to the several Republican senators who said his behavior was "problematic.
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First, it is an end-run around the process set forth in the Constitution: The House votes to impeach, then the Senate holds a trial and votes either to acquit or to convict and remove from office.
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And former special counsel Robert Mueller famously outlined 10 possible obstruction of justice episodes in his Trump-Russia probe — noting that while he couldn't say the president committed a crime, he couldn't acquit Trump of one, either.
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Doug Jones in Alabama, could side with their Republican colleagues in the Senate to acquit Trump exposes the Democratic Party's failure to persuade Americans outside their core areas to support their case for removing Trump from office.
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, just hours before the trial was set to begin, McConnell was plotting his move to punt the witness question to the end of the trial and move to swiftly acquit Trump.
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She supported the 2017 tax overhaul, provided a pivotal vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and last month voted to acquit the President on the articles of impeachment, while criticizing his conduct with Ukraine.
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After successfully helping the defense lawyers acquit the two Chilean men on trial in that case on the grounds of ayahuasca's therapeutic uses, De Loenen and his colleagues realized that this was a far from isolated incident.
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The president has appeared eager for a Senate trial to acquit him, but that will have to wait since Congress is out until early January and the parameters of the trial are still up in the air.
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President Donald Trump tweeted a video showing him as president "4EVA" in response to the US Senate voting to acquit him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after a two-week-long trial.
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On February 5, the Senate voted 52-48 to acquit Trump on the abuse-of-power charge and 53-47 on the obstruction charge, wrapping up a whirlwind four-month-long impeachment process that began in September.
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Trump owns the GOP Some few Republicans have criticized Trump's behavior -- Lamar Alexander called it inappropriate in the statement where he announced he'd vote to acquit Trump and let Americans decide who should be President in November.
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Manchin, who is among a few Democrats from red or purple who could side with Republicans on impeachment, would not say which way he plans to go at Wednesday's scheduled vote on whether to acquit the President.
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The first day of the defense's opening arguments appeased Republicans, who are widely expected to vote to acquit the president, while Democrats claimed it strengthened their own demands for calling more witnesses to testify at the trial.
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Come Tuesday, and the official start of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, it will become clear just how unpleasant the political price the GOP must pay to acquit their President of "high crimes and misdemeanors" will be.
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Plus, a Gallup poll showed Trump's job approval at 49%, the highest of his presidency, just before the GOP-led Senate voted to acquit him on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors over his dealings with Ukraine.
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Given the politics of West Virginia, a state Mr. Trump won with 68 percent of the vote in 2016, Mr. Manchin was among a very small group of Democrats who were seen as possible votes to acquit.
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Pere Aragones, a top official of left-wing Catalan separatist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Catalonia's Republican Left), whose chairman is Junqueras, said on Saturday that a ruling that did not acquit the defendants would be "completely unfair".
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There are certainly 2020 Senate candidates for whom voting to acquit Mr. Trump will potentially come with some downside, but at this point it seems unlikely that there are enough of them to actually jeopardize his acquittal.
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An executive summary of Trump's pre-trial brief for the Senate proceedings urges the Republican-led Senate to quickly acquit the president on two articles of impeachment approved against him by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
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And if the argument is enshrined as precedent by a vote to acquit Trump it could mark a huge enhancement of presidential power -- by half of a branch of government, Congress -- constitutionally charged with checking the executive.
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WASHINGTON — A few days after Senator Susan Collins cast her votes to acquit President Bill Clinton, as she was greeted with icy stares at a Lincoln Day dinner in rural Maine, a fellow Republican approached her, irate.
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"The Senate should speedily reject these deficient articles of impeachment and acquit the president," an executive summary of the Republican president's pre-trial brief said in Trump's first comprehensive defense before the start of his Senate trial.
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MEXICO CITY — El Salvador's attorney general is appealing the decision to acquit Evelyn Hernández, a Salvadoran woman who served prison time for aggravated homicide after delivering a stillborn baby, marking the state's third attempt to prosecute her.
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In a Fox News interview on Monday, McConnell described Pelosi's actions in holding up the articles as "absurd" and hit out at a political "charade" following criticism of Republicans who have already said they will acquit Trump.
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There is also a chance that if the controversy keeps escalating, Senate Democrats could warm to the idea of jamming Republicans in 2020 with the toughest vote of their careers -- to convict or acquit an unpopular President.
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While Schumer wants some of the president&aposs top aides and others close to testify, McConnell wants to exclude witnesses from testifying in order to speed up the process and acquit the president as quickly as possible.
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And it's also behind the logic of some House Democrats who are pushing Pelosi to refuse to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate — if the Senate doesn't get them, it can't try to acquit Trump.
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But the impeachment process is far from over: The proceedings now move to a trial in the Senate, which holds the final authority on whether to convict Trump and remove him from office, or to acquit him.
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Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdGun control group plans to spend million in Texas in 2020 Trump to attend California fundraiser with Oracle chairman The Hill's Morning Report - Nearing witness vote, GOP rushes to acquit Trump MORE (R-Texas).
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The anonymous juror—who wouldn't say whether he wanted to convict or acquit Cosby—told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was skeptical of Constand's account because she had willingly visited Cosby at his home and brought him gifts.
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The GOP-led Senate is expected to acquit him of the charges on Wednesday evening after Republicans voted last week to bring the trial to an end without additional witnesses or documentation, which had been demanded by Democrats.
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The prime-time address comes amid ongoing impeachment proceedings, and just a day before the GOP-controlled Senate is expected to acquit the president of allegations he abused his power with his dealings with Ukraine and obstructed Congress.
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Most of the GOP conference, especially conservatives, wanted to vote late Friday or very early Saturday morning to acquit Trump, allowing him to deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday without the cloud of impeachment proceedings.
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Even though Trump didn't mention impeachment during his nearly 90-minute address, it was clearly the elephant in the room on the eve of the Senate vote to acquit him of two impeachment charges passed by the House.
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But there was an ominous sign for the Justice Department last week, when a juror who was excused for a previously planned vacation said she would have voted to acquit and predicted a hung jury, as NJ.com reported.
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And I was warned by the experienced prosecutors that there would be cases involving nonviolent drug offenses in which no matter what my evidence was or no matter how good my trial skills were, the jury would acquit.
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If the court does agree to consider the appeal, the seven-member panel of justices will then move straight into deciding whether to acquit Pell or uphold his conviction, a process that will not require another public hearing.
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Eventually, they deadlocked with 10 jurors voting to find the defendants guilty on the conspiracy charge and two voting to acquit, and 11 jurors voting not guilty on the fraud charge and one voting to convict, he said.
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There has been little attempt by President Vladimir V. Putin, too, to identify himself with the team; the possibility of not winning the tournament, or even of failing to acquit itself well, is simply too great a risk.
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Trump defense lawyer and White House counsel Pat Cipollone: 'The only conclusion based on the evidence and based on the articles of impeachment themselves and based on the Constitution is that you must vote to acquit the president'
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, another Republican who was considered a potential "yes" vote for witnesses due to previous moves that went against Trump, also voted against witnesses and vowed to acquit the president despite condemning Trump's behavior toward Kiev.
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There's no chatter in the caucus about anyone other than Jones, Sinema or Manchin possibly voting to acquit the president on one or both counts, although a number of other Democratic senators say they are still undecided. Sen.
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Even before the Senate trial resumed on Friday, some Republican senators announced their plans to vote to acquit Mr. Trump, and there was noticeably less note-taking in the Senate chamber compared with previous days of the trial.
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But debate immediately began on the next steps -- the Senate had initially been expected to vote on whether to acquit Trump Friday night or early Saturday morning, but several competing interests resulted in a different deal being struck.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyTrump looms as flashpoint in Alabama Senate battle Mellman: Primary elections aren't general elections On The Trail: Democrats plan to hammer Trump on Social Security, Medicare MORE (R-Utah), voted to acquit the president.
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The politics around impeachment have calcified for both parties, with public opinion rigidly consistent and senators and candidates mostly falling along party lines ahead of a prospective vote on whether to acquit Trump or remove him from office.
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With impeachment moving to the Republican-controlled Senate, he now gets to decide what shape the trial takes, whether new witnesses or evidence can be introduced, and even whether the Senate can immediately vote to acquit Mr. Trump.
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"In our experience, the scope of the investigation of Teekay Shipping Norway AS will necessitate months rather than weeks of investigation before we will be able to conclude on whether to charge or acquit the company," Dahl said.
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"In our experience, the scope of the investigation of Teekay Shipping Norway AS will necessitate months rather than weeks of investigation before we will be able to conclude on whether to charge or acquit the company," Dahl said.
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Ultimately, what began as a disgrace for the House turned into one of the finest moments for the Senate when those seven Republicans upheld their oaths and decided to cross the aisle and acquit a president they despised.
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Moreover, a poll commissioned by Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC dedicated to helping Democrats, found that 51 percent of Maine voters said that if Collins votes to acquit Trump, she would be doing so for political purposes.
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Impeachment Here's something new: Word among some GOP senators is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may seek a vote to acquit President Trump if the House impeaches him, rather than vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment altogether.
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The full House is expected to vote on the articles on Wednesday, and if they pass with a majority vote, the impeachment proceedings will move to the Republican-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit the president.
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"YOU don't remove a president whenever you please," pronounced Gilmar Mendes, the top judge of Brazil's supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) on June 9th as he voted to acquit Brazil's president, Michel Temer, of charges of soliciting illegal campaign donations.
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The Reuters-Ipsos survey released on Thursday found that 28500 percent of U.S. adults polled support the Senate's decision to acquit the president on this impeachment charges, while 6900 percent opposed it and the other 2628 percent were undecided.
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He explained his vote to convict Trump for abuse of power (he voted to acquit on the charge of obstruction of Congress) by saying that the president in fact pressured a foreign government "to corrupt" the 2020 presidential election.
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The Republican-controlled Senate voted on Wednesday to acquit Trump on charges brought by the Democratic-led House of Representatives stemming from his dealings with Ukraine, only the third time in U.S. history that a president has been impeached.
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Schiff, the lead House manager, closed his impeachment argument by pleading with GOP senators to vote to convict Trump, arguing that they are better than the president and that history will judge them poorly if they vote to acquit.
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Although the judge during the first trial granted a motion to acquit the defendants of the felony incitement charge at the conclusion of testimony, the government did not say in Thursday's filing that it planned to drop that charge.
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Alexander, who said he is prepared to vote to acquit Trump, has nevertheless argued that the House proved its impeachment case — that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals and withheld military aid to drive up the pressure.
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The GOP-controlled Senate is widely expected to acquit Trump in a Senate trial come January, though House Democrats have said they will withhold the articles until they see what the process will look like in the upper chamber.
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The 19983-seat Senate is expected to acquit Trump, keeping him in office, given that none of its 53 Republicans has voiced support for removing him, a step that under the U.S. Constitution would require a two-thirds majority.
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If the Republican majority was going to acquit the president, and if it was going to voting against calling witnesses and subpoenaing documents that might weaken his defense, the Democrats would make sure that the viewing audience knew it.
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While the Senate won't determine a verdict for over a week, it's clear that a number of senators are not only tired, but have already made up their minds, raising further the expectation that it will vote to acquit.
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On Thursday, he indicated he's ready to acquit the President and said he has no concerns about Trump's conduct, despite the detailed case laid out by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of California and his fellow Democratic impeachment managers.
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At this early juncture, there is no strong indication that any of the Senate's 53 Republicans will vote to convict Trump or that any of the 47 Democrats (including two Independents who caucus with Democrats) will vote to acquit.
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Trump has viewed the likely impeachment trial as a venue for vindication, since the GOP-controlled Senate is widely expected to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment likely to be approved by the House along party lines on Wednesday.
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And after the Ukraine scandal broke, the team rejected any pretense of participating in the Democratic investigation and instead urged House Democrats in December to impeach the president "fast" so that the Senate could move quick to acquit him.
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Some have argued voting to acquit would embolden future presidents to seek foreign interference in elections, as Democrats allege Trump has done (most Republicans, including me, don't accept that's what happened here, but for arguments sake bear with me).
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The White House's top attorney and other members of President Donald Trump's legal team attended a private party at the Trump International Hotel to celebrate, just hours after the Senate voted largely along party lines to acquit the president.
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Blasphemy carries a prison sentence of up to five years, and almost all those charged with it are convicted, presumably because judges are afraid of being harassed by Islamists themselves if they dare to acquit supposed enemies of the faith.
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Kirtley and Dardarian said that it was crucial for the public to know about the evidence that forms the basis of a jury's verdict to acquit or convict a defendant so that the public can assess if the trial is fair.
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While acknowledging that the vote is destined to fail in the Republican-controlled chamber, Romney laid out a scathing case against Trump and said he couldn't vote to acquit while staying true to his oath before God to do impartial justice.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's top Republican exhorted fellow senators on Tuesday to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, warning the fate of the country depended on it, even as his Democratic counterpart called Trump a threat to democracy.
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The final vote in the Senate trial to acquit Trump will likely come on Wednesday, the day after his speech, and the lawmakers absent for the address will include some of the earliest and most fervent supporters of impeachment. Rep.
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" In announcing her intention to vote to acquit Trump earlier this week, Collins justified her position by stating that the president had learned a "pretty big lesson" from impeachment and that he would be "much more cautious in the future.
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Much will depend on whether Senate Republicans tie their votes to acquit to a central argument of Trump's defense team, that he should be acquitted because impeachment articles must allege statutory crimes, which the House-passed articles did not contain.
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The latest allegation from Bolton's unpublished book, which is due out in March, comes as the Senate appears ready to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial focused on allegations he used his office to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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ISTANBUL, July 5 (Reuters) - Turkey's high court ruled to acquit journalist Mehmet Altan of alleged links to the network of U.S.-based cleric Fetullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt, Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.
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The president had sincerely hoped to convince at least one Democrat to vote to acquit him on at least one charge, so that the White House could have declared, technically accurately, that Trump had been acquitted by a bipartisan vote.
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In the days since the U.S. Senate voted to acquit Trump and not remove him from office, rumors and reports have swirled through Washington of the president's plans to oust those he believes worked against him in the impeachment trial.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)As for audio, the Arctics 280X acquit themselves quite well, with crystal clear voice pickup from the SteelSeries' retractable mic, while the semi-closed back cups do a fair job of passively cutting down on outside noise.
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"The decision to acquit Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo is an important reminder that international justice is only possible if all suspects receive stringently fair trials before an independent and impartial judiciary," Amnesty International's Solomon Sacco said in a statement Friday.
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For the most part, however, the GOP's lines of attack couldn't look more different than two months ago, when the nation was affixed to the Senate's six-day-a-week impeachment trial and the vote to acquit Trump on Feb. 5.
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The jurors seemed to write that most of them had wanted to convict Mr. Cadden on many of the murder charges and some had wanted acquit him — suggesting that they fell short of the unanimous agreement required of a jury's decision.
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I voted to acquit the President, as I made very clear to you, Manu, on numerous occasions, because his conduct, while wrong, did not meet the high bar established in the Constitution for the immediate ouster of a duly elected president.
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If the proposal to admit new witnesses doesn't pass, which looks increasingly likely, then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could decide to proceed to a final vote on whether to convict or acquit the president as early as Friday evening.
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Minutes after the Senate vote to acquit him on Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump posted a tweet undercutting the belief a number of Republican senators expressed in recent days that getting impeached might prompt him to tone it down a little.
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Many Republicans are hoping to avoid witnesses altogether and move straight to a vote to convict or acquit the president, and some in the GOP have taken to questioning Bolton's credibility, painting him as an opportunist looking to boost book sales.
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What's more, Collins is seeking re-election but the Senate trial puts her in a no-win situation -- a vote to acquit Trump means facing the democrats' wrath while a vote to convict Trump would trigger relentless attacks from Trump himself.
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Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana told reporters he would likely vote to acquit Trump absent surprising new details from the House Democratic lawmakers, who are due on Friday to wrap up their opening arguments on why Trump should be convicted.
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The lawyers are implying that even if Mr. Trump did abuse his power to conduct foreign policy by trying to coerce Ukraine into announcing investigations that could help him in the 2020 election, the Senate should acquit Mr. Trump anyway.
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If they ultimately vote to acquit the president, they will only make undeniable what was already apparent: that congressional Republicans are not hapless bystanders in Trump's plots against the American democratic system, but willing and conscious co-conspirators to them.
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Early last month, a federal court jury in Washington took only four hours to acquit former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig on a charge of scheming to deceive the Justice Department's foreign-agent registration unit about his work for Ukraine.
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To that end, Trump has said he looks forward to his trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit him, allowing the president to claim what he wants most: "total and complete exoneration" heading into the election.
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In an interview on CBS on Monday, he reiterated that the law would prevent him from arguing to jurors that they should acquit him of violating the Espionage Act because he was a whistle-blower making disclosures in the public interest.
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Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Kyrsten Sinema had left the door open to voting to acquit on one or both of the charges, but all said Wednesday they vote to convict on both articles of impeachment.
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He told network anchors earlier in the day that he plans to save his thoughts on the matter for a separate speech he wants to give after the final vote on Wednesday, when the Senate is poised to acquit him.
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The ruling is a major triumph for the President, who's intensely sought to keep his business affairs in private, just days after the Republican-held Senate voted to acquit him on impeachment charges for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, did not directly call for senators to vote to acquit Trump but argued that senators cannot follow the House's lead and agree that the president deserves to be impeached and ultimately removed from office.
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He's also the only presidential candidate who was involved with the last impeachment trial to transfix Washington, when he joined with fellow Democrats in the Senate to acquit President Bill Clinton of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1999.
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NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein is expected on Thursday to urge a New York jury to acquit the former Hollywood producer of sexual assault, as the weeks-long trial against Weinstein comes to a close.
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As Democratic impeachment managers made the case against President Donald Trump on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican senators rolled out a rationale for their future vote to acquit: that the trial is a waste of time because Democrats aren't presenting new evidence.
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But if McConnell's full court press and party loyalty triumphs over a traditional perception of senators' role in a Senate trial, a vote to block witnesses and to acquit Trump in the Senate could come as early as week's end.
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Trump has made clear he wants witnesses to testify, in person, while senators -- including McConnell in private -- have warned that going down that path could lead to a politically precarious slippery slope in the GOP effort to acquit the President.
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Trump's allies expect the GOP-controlled chamber will acquit him swiftly — it takes a two-thirds vote of the 100-member body to remove a sitting president — but Republican senators are still deciding whether to ultimately allow Trump to call witnesses.
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McConnell already has telegraphed that if negotiations with Schumer sputter, he could embark on another power play by finding 51 votes - a simple majority of the Senate - to end the trial in its early stages and acquit Trump without witness testimony.
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Brafman, the former Catskills stand-up comic-turned-high-powered criminal defense lawyer, tried to deliver a killer punch line to prosecutors and their evidence Thursday as he asked jurors to acquit his client Shkreli of securities fraud and other charges.
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Legal experts say jurors have faced popular pressure in the majority-black city to convict someone in the case, while police officers generally opt for a bench trial because they think judges are more likely to acquit or impose a lighter sentence.
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Mike Bloomberg called trans women a 'man wearing a dress' and implied equality 'makes no sense' to Midwesterners'It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues everyone needs help to succeedThe Senate voted to acquit President Trump.
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In the headlines, the ongoing fracas in Iowa has managed to overtake not only Tuesday's State of the Union address but the Senate's historic vote Wednesday to acquit President Trump on both of the articles of impeachment House Democrats drew up against him.
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"The castle doctrine might give the jury an excuse to acquit officer Guyger even though she was not in her own home when she shot and killed Botham Jean," Callan, a former homicide prosecutor, said in an email to CNN Monday night.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate is expected to acquit President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the end of his impeachment trial on charges that he abused his power in dealings with Ukraine and obstructed efforts to uncover the alleged misconduct.
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Even some Senate Republicans who voted to acquit labeled Trump's behavior "improper" or "wrong," in light of the "overwhelming" evidence the president had withheld vital military aid from a nation at war to force an investigation of Trump's political rival, Democrat Joe Biden.
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It's OK for a prosecutor to bring a case, if there's enough evidence to support the "probable cause" standard, and it's OK for a jury to look at that same evidence and acquit the defendant, concluding that there's reasonable doubt about guilt.
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The Senate on Friday narrowly rejected motions to call new witnesses in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, paving the way for a final vote to acquit the president next week and shutting down a weeks-long Democratic effort to secure new witness testimony.
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Shortly after the US Senate voted twice to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, the hashtag #MitchMcConnellsTheTypeOfGuy trended on Twitter in the US.The descriptions of McConnell were largely unflattering, but there was no denying that he was one thing: victorious.
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We are compelled to ask Republicans: If you heard the Godfather telling his consiglieri, "I don't like that guy," and shortly thereafter "that guy" is shot, would you vote to acquit because there was no direct evidence of the Godfather giving the order?
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Details: It took the 12-member jury roughly 12 hours over three days to acquit Noor Salman, the 31-year-old wife of shooter Omar Mateen, who was charged with providing material support to the Islamic State and with lying to FBI investigators.
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, just became the sole exception to the Senate's party-line vote to acquit President Trump — and the first senator who has ever voted to remove a president of his own party.
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Senators to watch A handful of senators in both parties have still not said whether they will vote to convict or acquit the President on the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruct of Congress — that the House passed in December.
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It was a cumbersome procedure that resulted only in limited disclosure after the trial had concluded, and, if used again, would not ensure full and contemporaneous public disclosure of what senators said during deliberations leading up to a vote to acquit or convict.
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"I have no doubt, based on the facts that I've been able to see and read and hear, and based on the facts that they're about to see and hear and read, that they will acquit based on those facts," said Republican Rep.
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House Democrats understood this and focused on outlining a powerful case that the Senate Republicans would be putting their party ahead of country if they block witness testimonies and ultimately vote to acquit Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Even if the Senate votes to acquit, the impeachment process has provided Democrats with a treasure trove of damning evidence to fuel the campaign against him and convince voters that he should be evicted from the White House in the November election.
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Dashing the hopes of Democrats who implored them to break party lines, moderate Senate Republicans held together and announced, one by one, that they would acquit Mr. Trump, contending that removal from office was an overly excessive punishment that would disenfranchise voters.
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"It will mean day after day sitting in chamber, listening to the two sides, writing questions for them to answer that go through the chief justice," said Ms. Collins, one of the Republicans who voted to acquit Mr. Clinton 20 years ago.
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Impeachment has only extended this pattern, with Republicans voting to shorten the trial even when it makes them look like lackeys, and too cowed in many cases to even take the acquit-but-still-condemn approach that Democrats took with Bill Clinton.
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Now Schiff will return to a high-profile role in making the case that Trump should be removed by the Senate, where the GOP-controlled chamber is viewed as all but guaranteed to acquit Trump since 67 votes are needed to convict.
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SILIVRI, Turkey, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled to acquit businessman Osman Kavala and other defendants over their alleged role in protests in 2013, in a case that had drawn strong criticism from Turkey's Western allies and human rights groups.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he respected a court decision to acquit philanthropist Osman Kavala and eight others over their role in the Gezi Park protests, but that the 2013 unrest was a "heinous attack" on the country.
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Many have lamented that the House Democrats turned this into a binary choice — acquit or convict — leaving no room for any other outcome like oversight hearings akin to what Republicans did to the Obama administration during the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals.
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The Capitol — a place the founders envisioned as a safe space from outside influences — has been abuzz with fear the commander-in-chief would take the Senate's vote to acquit on impeachment as a hall pass to shake down any foreign leader he wants.
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From the start, McConnell's goal was to keep the impeachment trial as short as possible and have a final up-or-down vote to acquit the president instead of a procedural vote early on to dismiss the articles, an approach favored by some Republicans.
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The op-ed — echoing the Apostles' Creed, which is used as an affirmation of faith in several Christian denominations — mocks the Senate's vote to acquit Trump on articles of impeachment, various incendiary comments the president has made and the litany of allegations against him.
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Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCollins reacts to angry voicemails in response to acquittal vote What the impeachment vote looked like from inside the chamber Collins: It's 'very sexist' to assume I asked McConnell's permission in witness vote MORE (R-Maine) will vote to acquit Trump.
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The plan had the added benefit of giving GOP moderates a chance to explain their votes on the floor and avoid the bad optics of voting in the middle of the night to acquit Trump, something that surely would have given Democrats more rhetorical ammo.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, an unpredictable moderate in a polarized Washington, on Monday declared she will vote to acquit Donald Trump, but not before leveling an attack against the president and fellow lawmakers of both parties during a partisan impeachment ordeal.
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It represents a major test not just for Manafort, who faces decades in prison on bank and tax fraud charges if convicted, but also for Mueller, whose ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election could lose credibility if jurors ultimately acquit Manafort.
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A judge in the northern Italian town of Parma where the Parmalat is headquartered ruled in favour of a request from prosecutors to acquit JPMorgan's former Italy head Federico Imbert, his deputy Gabriele Schiavi as well as top executives Alessandro Mitrovich and Alessandro Rombelli.
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