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Post 1.6 1. What is the most basic finding of the polls that have been released in the last week? Support for impeachment is rising, but the majority of Americans still do not support impeachment. 2. What did YouGov and the Economist find that most Americans feel about the president's actions? They  being liberal institurions found that of those that they polled 52% think that the presidents actions are inappropriate. 3. What did that same poll find about American attitudes toward the president if he withheld funding to the Ukraine? If he withheld funding with the added factor that it was FOR PERSONAL GAIN, 62% of those they polled would think his conduct was inappropriate. 4. What change in attitudes did the Quinnipiac poll find? They found that even before the prompt was released support for impeachment had already risen by about 5%. 5. What is important about the time frame in which the poll was conducted? The poll was taken before the prompt was released show it shows gen...

1. What is Nancy Pelosi's role in Congress? She is Speaker of the House 2. What is President Trump alleged to have done? He alleged to have tried to get Ukraine to interfere with the 2020 presidential election. 3. What is Nancy Pelosi's goal, since she does not want to impeach the president? She wants congress to pass new laws governing presidential indictment to make the process explicit. 4. What does Pelosi say has harmed Congress's ability to investigate the Executive Branch? The presidents uncooperative nature and his declaration of executive privilages. 5. How did the Director of National Intelligence (who works for the president) violate the law? Joseph Maguire failed to relay the whistle blowers complaint to congress as is required by law. 6. What is Adam Schiff's role in Congress? He is the House Intellegence committee chair. 7. Why do "moderate Democrats" want to avoid impeaching the president? Those in swing states would lose their base of sup...

 Blog 1.4 1. How much of the House must agree to impeach a judge? How much of the Senate must agree to remove a judge? A simple 50% plus majority is needed in the house to bring up charges and a 2/3 super majority in the Senate is needed to remove. 2. Has this process ever been used before for the Supreme Court?  How many times? It has only been used once to bring up charges but he was not removed. 3. Where in the Constitution does it set up the impeachment process? In article II section 4 it sets up the impeachment process and who can be impeached. 4. What are the reasons for the impeachments of the 5 most recent judicial impeachments? Harry Claiborne for Falsifying income tax returns Alcee Hastings for taking a 150000 dollar bribe Walter Nixon for Perjury Samuel Kent for obstruction of Justice and Sexual Abuse Thomas Porteous was accused of recieving bribes but not brought up on charges before taking offices because of statutes of limitations. 5. Why does the curren...

Set 1.3 1. What was the Iowa Democratic Party's plan for changes to this year's Iowa Caucus? They planed to hold a virtual caucus over a system of phones. 2. Why has the Democratic National Committee decided to recommend rejecting these plans? Because of recent events they have some concerns over that systems seceptability to hacking. 3. Why had the Iowa Democratic Party recommended these changes? The Iowa branch particularly had fell under accusations that its caucuses were not accessable enough. 4. Why is it so important that Iowa is the first contest?  How do they influence the nomination process? Iowa shows which candidates have momentum and which do not, so that we know in the begining who will fail miserably. 5. Why are caucuses controversial as a nomination process? Caucuses are not very accessible, with one having to spend hours to sort themselves into groups in favor of a candidate, which excludes the disabled elderly and anyone with prior commitments. 6...

 Set 2 1. How much of the US population lives in a state or district with access to legal marijuana? More than one quarter of the US Population now lives in a state with access to legal marijuana 2. Where in the US were the first places to make marijuana fully legal? Colorado and Washington were the first 2 states to make MArijuana fully legal. 3. In the states where marijuana is legal, what differences might there be state to state?  And how are Vermont and DC different? In the states where marijuana is legal they are legal to different degrees. Some only have it for medical use and it is still criminalized and there is variation in the amount one is allowed to possess. Vermont and DC do not allow sale for Recreational uses. In these places it can be grown but not sold. 4. What is the difference between marijuana legalization and marijuana decriminalization? Decriminalization only gets rid of jail and prison time while keeping the minor fines, but legalization removes al...