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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How Trump’s impeachment trial might unfold, whether NRA can skirt investigation by declaring bankruptcy

    The Senate heads back to Washington on Tuesday, a day before Joe Biden is inaugurated. One of its primary responsibilities will be to again hold an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, this time on the charge of inciting an insurrection.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jan 18, 2021 • 8m Listen

    The Senate heads back to Washington on Tuesday, a day before Joe Biden is inaugurated. One of its primary responsibilities will be to again hold an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, this time on the charge of inciting an insurrection. The trial is not likely to start immediately. The Senate can’t begin until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally sends over the new article of impeachment.

    Also late last week, the National Rifle Association filed for bankruptcy and said it plans to leave New York and reincorporate in Texas.

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    3 of 5
    Traveling nurse on COVID in South LA, vaccine skepticism among physicians
    1. 0:00‘Community is being rocked very, very heavily.’ Traveling nurse on COVID in South LA
    2. 8:03Joe Biden’s plans to ramp up COVID vaccine distribution
    3. 17:25How Trump’s impeachment trial might unfold, whether NRA can skirt investigation by declaring bankruptcyYou’re reading this
    4. 25:44‘MLK/FBI’ documentary looks at J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to discredit Martin Luther King Jr.
    5. 38:02Carla Morrison, Camilo Lara, BIIANCO, Kokoroko: Artists to watch in 2021
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