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Resolution

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:

Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Article 1: Incitement of insurrection

The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” and that the President “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment, for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Further, section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States from “hold[ing] and office … under the United States.’ In his conduct while President of the United States – and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, provide, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed – Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States, in that:

On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United States Capitol for a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College.

In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials.

Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that “we won this election, and we won it by a landslide.” He also willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged – and foreseeably resulted in – lawless action at the Capitol, such as: “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country any more.”

Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts.

resident Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so.

In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

SOURCE : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/incitement-of-insurrection-impeachment-resolution-full-text

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The US military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the uniformed leaders of the military branches, have put out a rare message to service members saying the violent riots last week were an assault on America’s constitutional process and against the law.
The joint message on Tuesday broke nearly a week of silence by the military leaders after the assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump sent legislators into hiding and left five people dead.
While a number of Trump’s cabinet members including acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller condemned the storming, the top US general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was silent until now.
“The violent riot … was as direct assault on the US Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process,” said a memorandum signed by General Milley.
“The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection,” they said.
The military leaders said that President-elect Joe Biden would be inaugurated on January 20 and become their commander in chief, adding that members of the armed forces were bound to defend the constitution.
“Any act to disrupt the constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath; it is against the law.”
The message came amid concerns that the Trump-supporting far-right groups, who raided the Congress to halt the certification of Biden as the next president, have supporters in the armed forces and law enforcement.
‘We don’t tolerate extremists’
Trump and his supporters have refused to accept that Biden fairly and soundly won the November 3 presidential election.
The Pentagon is deploying as many as 15,000 National Guard troops to protect Biden’s inauguration on January 20, amid fears of new violence.
Pentagon officials were asked on Monday about the possibility of pro-Trump activists in the Guard and among regular troops.
“We don’t tolerate extremists in our ranks,” said spokesman Jonathan Hoffman.
US officials said Milley had not commented on last week’s events because he wanted to stay out of politics.
The silence was in sharp contrast to June, when Milley made a controversial walk to a church with Trump after law enforcement officers backed by National Guard troops used tear-inducing chemicals and rubber-coated bullets to clear the area of peaceful protesters.
Some service members have privately expressed concern that senior leaders did not provide direction in the aftermath of the attack on American democracy on Wednesday.
On Twitter, the head of US forces in South Korea said that what happened occurred in Washington, DC on Wednesday was an “attempted insurrection”.
“If you are serving in uniform and think it was something else, I would encourage (you) to sit down and read the constitution that you swore an oath to support and defend,” General Robert Abrams said.
There has also been a renewed focus on hardline groups within the US military after the Capitol storming.
The Army told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday that it was working with the FBI to see if any attackers were current service members and with the Secret Service to see if any of the nearly 10,000 National Guard troops securing Biden’s inauguration would need additional screening.
SOURCE : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/top-us-generals-condemn-capitol-attack-in-message-to-troops

Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the coronavirus in what are believed to be the first known cases among such primates in the United States and possibly the world.
The park’s executive director, Lisa Peterson, told The Associated Press news agency on Monday that eight gorillas that live together at the park are believed to have the virus and several have been coughing.
It appears the infection came from a member of the park’s wildlife care team, who also tested positive for the virus but was asymptomatic and had worn a mask at all times around the gorillas.
The park has been closed to the public since December 6 as part of the state of California’s lockdown efforts to curb coronavirus cases.
At least two of the gorillas began coughing last week, while a third is showing symptoms.
Positive test results were confirmed by the US Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories in three gorillas. Faeces from all eight in the troop are being taken for testing.
Non-human primates susceptible
Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well, added Peterson.
“The troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery.”
Gorillas share up to 98 percent of their DNA with humans and studies have found that some non-human primates are also susceptible to COVID-19 infection.
It is not yet known if the gorillas will have a serious reaction to the disease that has killed nearly two million people and infected almost 91 million others.
The gorillas infected at the San Diego park are western lowland gorillas, whose population has declined by more than 60 percent over the last 20 years because of poaching and disease, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Zoo officials are talking to experts who have been treating the coronavirus in humans in case the animals develop more severe symptoms.
They will remain together since separating them could be harmful to the gorillas that live in tight-knit groups.
“This is wildlife and they have their own resiliency and can heal differently than we do,” said Peterson, the head of the zoo.
The safari park on Monday added more safety measures for its staff, including requiring face shields and eye goggles when working in contact with the animals.
The confirmation that gorillas are susceptible to the coronavirus contributes to information about how the pandemic may affect these species in their native habitats where they come into contact with humans and human materials, the park officials said.
San Diego Zoo Safari Park plans to share what it learns with health officials, conservationists and scientists to develop steps to protect gorillas in the forests of Africa.



SOURCE : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/12/two-gorillas-at-san-diego-zoo-test-positive-for-covid-19

An extraordinary breach of the United States Capitol by rioters egged on by President Donald Trump has led legislators into uncharted territory as they set course for impeachment with just days left in Trump’s term.
Democrats in the US House of Representative have said they will introduce an Article of Impeachment against Trump as soon as Monday, accusing him of engaging “in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States”.
In his repeated attempts to undermine the election and his directive for supporters to march on the seat of the US legislature on January 6 as Congress met to certify the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, Trump “betrayed his trust as President”, the lawmakers argue.
The move has the potential to shape the early days of Biden’s presidency, as well as the US political landscape for years to come – as Trump could be barred from holding federal office again in the future, experts said.
“The fact that that could be the consequence could be a death blow to Trump,” Alan Baron, a former special counsel to the House of Representatives during four impeachment inquiries against federal judges, told Al Jazeera.
For Trump to be impeached, the article must pass a majority vote in the House before it can be sent to the Senate for a trial. The measure then requires two-thirds support in the Senate for the president to be convicted and removed from office.
Then, Baron explained, a subsequent Senate vote, “historically involving only a simple majority”, could then bar the impeached president from ever holding public office again.
As of Sunday, the Article of Impeachment against Trump had 200 co-sponsors in the 435-seat chamber, where Democrats hold a slim majority.
With the party also set to soon take majority control of the Senate, impeachment could be a “practical” move aimed at preventing Trump from running for president again in 2024 – or a “symbolic” rebuke of his actions, said Baron.
“There’s been talk about Trump’s role as the sort of the government in exile, with regard to rallying Republicans when he’s out of office,” he said. “If he’s barred from holding any federal office, he’s kind of a toothless tiger.”
Constitutional question
A Senate trial is unlikely to happen before Trump leaves office on January 20, however.
Even if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cooperated with a trial before Biden takes office – which he has said he will not – observers said it is all but logistically impossible to pull off such a high-stakes trial in the short timeframe.
Meanwhile, Democratic Representative James Clyburn on Sunday suggested that the House may wait to send the Article of Impeachment to the Senate until 100 days into Biden’s presidency, as to not mar his early days in office.
That means legislators’ hopes of barring Trump from future office will hinge on a constitutional question of whether a Senate impeachment trial can proceed after a president has already left the White House.
“The constitutional text is not clear on that point,” Thomas M Keck, a professor of political science at Syracuse University, told Al Jazeera, adding though that “most constitutional scholars who study impeachment agree that the trial and conviction can happen after he leaves office.”
“This is a debatable interpretation of the meaning of the Constitution,” he added, “but my understanding is that, so long as the process is initiated while someone is still in office, it can continue to a conclusion, even if that person leaves office.”
Philip Bobbitt, a Columbia University constitutional scholar, told Al Jazeera that while he believed legislators have grounds for impeachment, “in my opinion … you can’t impeach someone who’s not in office.”
Bobbitt said that based on his interpretation, a Senate trial would have to be completed before January 20, which he called “unrealistic”.
If a trial were to proceed after Trump leaves office, Bobbitt said, “I think it would be an appropriate defence by the former president’s party to say that he’s no longer an officer of the United States.”
‘Historical record’
Even if the trial is allowed to proceed after Trump leaves office, Democrats will likely face an uphill battle in convincing the 16 Republican Senators needed to reach a two-thirds majority in the chamber to vote to impeach.
In recent days, at least two Republican senators, Pat Toomey and Lisa Murkowski, have called for Trump to resign.
Other Republican legislators have said they support the invocation of the 25th Amendment, a constitutional provision that allows Trump’s cabinet and the vice president to remove him from office if they deem him unable to perform his duties.
Vice President Mike Pence has said he opposed the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment, an adviser recently said, while some Republican lawmakers have urged Biden to stop Democrats’ effort to impeach, saying it risked making it difficult to unify the country after the Capitol violence.
Still, opinions could change as more evidence emerges from the riot, in particular, whether directives from the Trump administration contributed to a delayed response from federal security agents.
Impeachment by the House would also still send a message to future US leaders, Keck said.
“Even if barring Trump from holding future office falls short, then you’ve marked him as the only president in history to be impeached twice,” Keck said.
“It has to be a matter for the historical record to say that inciting a mob to attack the Congress and try to prevent them from certifying the results of an election is unacceptable behaviour.”
SOURCE :https://www.aljazeera.com:443/news/2021/1/10/toothless-tiger-impeachment-could-bar-trump-from-future-office

An Indonesian Sriwijaya Air plane is feared to have crashed into the sea after the Boeing 737 lost contact with air traffic control in the capital Jakarta with flight tracking data showing it plunged into a steep dive minutes after takeoff.
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said flight SJ182 was delayed by an hour before it took off at 2:36pm (07:36 GMT) on Saturday.
The Boeing 737-500 disappeared from radar four minutes later, after the pilot contacted air traffic control to ascend to an altitude of 8,839 metres (29,000 feet), he said.
Sumadi told a news conference that 62 people had been on board.
A statement released by the budget airline said the plane was on an estimated 90-minute domestic flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province on Indonesia’s Borneo island, about 740km (460 miles) away.
Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington, reporting from Jakarta, said the 62 people on board included seven children and three infants and that the authorities believe they have found debris of the plane.
“The military has sent reinforcements including helicopters, and military vessels attempting to find what exactly happened,” she said.
Washington said the flight was delayed due to poor weather conditions and heavy rain at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
Minister Sumadi said a dozen vessels, including four warships, were deployed in a search and rescue operation centred between Lancang and Laki islands, part of the Thousand Islands chain just north of Jakarta.
Separately, the Indonesian Navy said it determined the coordinates of the missing plane and ships were deployed to the location.
Surachman, a local government official, told Kompas TV that fishermen found what appeared to be the wreckage of an aircraft in waters north of Jakarta. Other news channels showed images of suspected wreckage.
“We found some cables, a piece of jeans, and pieces of metal on the water,” Zulkifli, a security official, told CNNIndonesia.com.
Bambang Suryo Aji, the National Search and Rescue Agency’s deputy head of operations and preparedness, said rescuers collected plane debris and clothes and they handed the items over to the National Transportation Safety Committee for further investigation to determine whether they were from the missing plane.
Aji said no radio beacon signal had been detected from the aircraft. He said his agency was investigating why the plane’s emergency locator transmitter, or ELT, was not transmitting a signal that could confirm whether it had crashed.
Reliable tracking service Flightradar24 said on its Twitter feed that flight SJ182 “lost more than 10,000 feet [3,000 metres] of altitude in less than one minute, about four minutes after departure from Jakarta”.
Indonesian soldiers are seen at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after a Sriwijaya Air plane lost contact [Willy Kurniawan/Reuters]
Television footage showed relatives and friends of the flight passengers weeping, praying and hugging each other as they waited at Jakarta and Pontianak airports.
The aircraft is a 27-year-old Boeing 737-500, according to registration details included in the tracking data.
“Many airlines in Indonesia have had issues in the past but this is a story that has caught many people off-guard as Sriwijaya Air does have some reliable history,” and the plane was believed to be in good condition, Al Jazeera’s Washington said.
Transport accidents
Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago nation with more than 260 million people, has been plagued by transport accidents on land, sea and air because of overcrowding on ferries, ageing infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.
A Boeing 737 MAX operated by Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed off Jakarta in late 2018, killing all 189 passengers and crew. The plane that lost contact on Saturday is a much older model.
In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing 162 people.
Sriwijaya Air is one of Indonesia’s discount carriers, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations.
Founded in 2003, Jakarta-based Sriwijaya Air group flies largely within Indonesia.
The airline has a solid safety record until now with no onboard casualties in four incidents recorded on the Aviation Safety Network database, though a farmer was killed when a Boeing 737-200 left the runway in 2008 following a hydraulic problem.
Aisyah Llewellyn contributed to this report from Indonesia.
SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

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