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‘Move for a mistrial’: Legal analyst says Adam Schiff must end Senate trial before GOP acquits Trump

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NBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner on Sunday addressed the possibility that Chief Justice John Roberts could declare a mistrial before Republicans in the Senate acquit President Donald Trump on impeachment charges on Wednesday.

Kirshner argued that House Impeachment Manager Adam Schiff could call for a mistrial even though such a move is not contemplated in Senate rules.

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“I wish Schiff WOULD make a motion for a mistrial based on, among other things, the revelation of [Pat] Cipollone’s grossly unethical conduct/conflicts of interest,” Kirshner wrote on Twitter, referring to allegations that the president’s attorney witnessed presidential high crimes.

“The Senate rules may not contemplate/authorize a mistrial motion,” he admitted. ‘I would argue the rules as adopted NEVER contemplated the president’s lawyers would have hidden from the Senate, the Chief Justice and the American people such egregious, disqualifying information (as recently disclosed by John Bolton).”

Kirshner concluded: “Cipollone perpetrated a unimaginable fraud on the Senate and the American people and the Dems should not go quietly into that dark acquittal. Move for a mistrial and see what the Chief Justice says.”

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Arizona sex offender threatened to gun down Adam Schiff after watching Fox News: prosecutors

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An Arizona sex offender was charged with making a threatening phone call to Rep. Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry.

Jan Peter Meister, a registered sex offender from Tucson, was identified through phone records as the caller who left a threatening message on Schiff's office voicemail, according to court documents.

Police played the message for the 52-year-old Meister, who told investigators he did not remember making the call but admitted that he had gotten drunk, and agreed that must have been him on the recording.

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The Iowa caucus is a massive grift — and both Republicans and Democrats are in on it

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There is still no official winner in Iowa after the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) said they found "inconsistencies" in the three sets of results they were supposed to deliver. This Tuesday, the IDP said the problem was caused by a "coding issue" in its reporting system. Writing for the Daily Beast, Stuart Stevens says the Iowa caucus system is "a nutty system no school would sanction to choose a student body president."

"The Iowa caucus system is one of those ideas that seems sort of charming if you think about it for five minutes — a bunch of neighbors getting together in America’s most literate state, the one that gave us Jean Seberg and The Music Man – and utterly insane if you think about it for ten minutes," Stevens writes. "No secret ballot so you’re standing across from your boss when you vote, no early voting and doors close at 7 pm so if you stop for gas your vote doesn’t count, all in a state that doesn’t remotely resemble the American electorate as a whole."

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The View hosts burst into laughter over Don Jr and Eric Trump’s Iowa caucus conspiracy theories

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"The View" panelists burst into laughter over claims of Iowa election rigging peddled by President Donald Trump's two eldest sons.

The winner of the state's Democratic caucus -- the official start of the 2020 primary season -- remains unclear amid technical and other issues, but Democratic Party officials assured voters that paper ballots remained intact and were being counted.

"Stuff needs to change because it's not working the way that it should," said host Whoopi Goldberg, "and after everything we saw with Stacey Abrams (in Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election), we should be really careful about how we do all of this."

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