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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 27 January 2021
GOP largely votes against holding Trump impeachment trial

Associated Press sacked three weeks ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen- The lead House prosecu-
ate Republicans voted tor, Rep. Jamie Raskin of
overwhelmingly Tuesday Maryland, stood before the
against moving forward Senate to describe the vio-
with Donald Trump's historic lent events of Jan. 6 — five
second impeachment trial, people died — and read
making clear a conviction the House resolution charg-
of the former president for ing "high crimes and misde-
"incitement of insurrection" meanors."
is unlikely. Republicans came to
In a 55-45 procedural Trump's legal defense.
vote, the Senate set aside Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas,
an objection from Ken- asked if Congress starts
tucky Sen. Rand Paul that holding impeachment trials
would have declared the of former officials, what's
impeachment proceed- next: "Could we go back
ings unconstitutional. That and try President Obama?"
means the trial on Trump's Besides, he suggested,
impeachment, the first Trump has already been
ever of a former president, In this image from video, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the president pro tempore of the Senate, who held to account. "One way
will begin as scheduled the will preside over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, swears in members of in our system you get pun-
the Senate for the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the
week of Feb. 8. The House U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. ished is losing an election."
impeached him two weeks Associated Press For Democrats the tone,
ago for inciting deadly ri- tenor and length of the trial
ots in the Capitol on Jan. 6 showing the former presi- the former president for the Republican Party that feels so early in Biden's presiden-
when he told his supporters dent's enduring sway over first time after the deadly very different. Not only are cy poses its own challenge,
to "fight like hell" to overturn the GOP. siege at the U.S. Capitol. there legal concerns, but forcing them to strike a bal-
his election defeat. "If more than 34 Repub- Many Republican sena- senators are wary of cross- ance between their vow to
Yet the support of 45 Re- licans vote against the tors, including Paul, have ing the former president hold Trump accountable
publicans for declaring the constitutionality of the pro- challenged the legitimacy and his legions of followers. and their eagerness to de-
trial invalid indicates that ceeding, the whole thing's of the trial and questioned Security remains tight at the liver on the new admin-
there are long odds for dead on arrival," Paul said whether Trump's repeated Capitol. istration's priorities follow-
Trump's conviction, which shortly before the vote." demands to overturn Joe On Monday, the nine House ing their sweep of control
would require the support Paul said Democrats "prob- Biden's election really con- Democrats prosecuting the of the House, Senate and
of all Democrats and 17 Re- ably should rest their case stitute "incitement of insur- case against Trump car- White House.
publicans, or two-thirds of and present no case at all." rection." ried the sole impeachment Chief Justice John Roberts
the Senate. While most Re- The senators took oaths So what seemed for some charge of "incitement of in- is not presiding at the trial,
publicans criticized Trump Tuesday to ensure "impar- Democrats like an open- surrection" across the Capi- as he did during Trump's first
shortly after the attack, tial justice" as jurors in the and-shut case that played tol in a solemn and cer- impeachment, potentially
many of them have rushed trial, proceedings that will out for the world on live emonial march along the affecting the gravitas of
to defend him in the trial, test Republican loyalty to television is running into a same halls the rioters ran- the proceedings. q
Widespread internet outages hit northeast U.S.

Associated Press Comcast, another major in with Gaspar's phone.
Internet users across the internet service provider, "We didn't see it as a ma-
northeast U.S. reported said it had not observed jor issue," Gaspar said. "The
widespread outages Tues- problems with its network only inconvenience was
day. Tuesday. me not having my phone."
In an emailed statement People posting on Twit- The outage affected inter-
90 minutes after the out- ter reported having issues net and cloud providers
age was first reported, Ve- connecting with various as well as major sites such
rizon said it was working on online services in a geo- as Google and Facebook.
the problem hurting Fios graphic area stretching Amazon, whose web ser-
service "throughout the from Washington to Bos- vices division powers a
Northeast corridor" and ton. That densely popu- wide ranges of online ser-
that some service had al- lated region includes key vices, indicated its network
ready been restored. U.S. government services wasn't the cause of the In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, an iPhone displays the Face-
The telecom giant had re- as well as major financial problem. book app in New Orleans.
ported a cut fiber in Brook- companies such as Fidelity It said that for about an Associated Press
lyn via Twitter, although it's Investments. hour and a half, ending at
not clear if that issue was Diana Gaspar's daughter around 12:45 p.m. Eastern, found issues with its own of internet analysis at Ken-
responsible for the outage. in New York couldn't con- some customers on the services and was investi- tik, a network monitoring
Verizon didn't give any es- nect to her online class- East Coast had problems gating. company. He reported a
timate in its email about room because their home connecting to Amazon The East Coast outages 12% drop in traffic volume
when the problem would internet was spotty for a Web Services, or AWS. It began at 11:25 a.m. local to Verizon.
be fixed and didn't reply couple of hours in the af- said its services were oper- time and recovery began Madory said he did not yet
to questions about what ternoon, although her ating normally. at 12:37 p.m, according know if other carriers were
caused the problem. daughter was able to log Google said it also had not to Doug Madory, director impacted.q