| The second impeachment trial of former President Trump begins Tuesday; protests over the coup in Myanmar are escalating. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gabby Birenbaum | | | | | | | The impeachment trial is expected to be quick | | | | | Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images | | - Former President Donald Trump's second Senate impeachment trial will begin tomorrow, likely at noon. Democrats are hoping to wrap it up by the end of the week, given the urgency of their legislative agenda and the steep odds that 17 Senate Republicans will vote to convict. [Vox / Andrew Prokop]
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are still working out the details of the schedule — including whether to call witnesses — but reports say each side will have up to 16 hours to make their case. [Axios / Kadia Goba]
- At Trump's last impeachment trial, Republicans blocked Democrats from calling witnesses. While it will be up to the House impeachment managers, who serve as the "prosecution," to ask for debate and a vote on calling witnesses if they choose, Senate Democrats say witnesses are unnecessary given the public nature of the charge in question: Trump's incitement of the Capitol insurrection. [Politico / Marianne Levine]
- In pretrial filings, Trump's team previewed their argument by saying that the Senate lacked jurisdiction to try Trump as a private citizen, that his January 6 speech did not inspire any unlawful acts, and that his false election claims are protected by the First Amendment because they are ostensibly reasonable. [NPR / Dana Farrington]
- House impeachment managers shot back with a brief of their own reiterating the Senate trial's constitutionality. They are preparing a video they say will show how rioters were directly inspired by Trump's actions and words. [CNN / Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju]
- In filings last week, the House impeachment managers laid out months' worth of election results denial from Trump, with testimonies from rioters explaining they came to Washington on the former president's orders. [Washington Post / Rosalind S. Helderman, Rachel Weiner, and Spencer S. Hsu]
- The resolution governing the trial is expected to allow for a four-hour debate and then a vote on the constitutionality of holding the trial, before moving forward with presentations from the impeachment managers and Trump's lawyers. [NYT / Nicholas Fandos]
- Barring the truly unexpected, the outcome of the trial is likely already clear. All 50 Senate Democrats and 17 Republicans would need to vote to convict, but 45 Republicans already voted in favor of a challenge that would have halted the impeachment due to its supposed unconstitutionality. [CBS News / Melissa Quinn]
| | | People in Myanmar are protesting the military coup | | - Last week, Myanmar's military launched a coup, jailing elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and seizing power. Already, hundreds of thousands of people all over the country are marching in protest. [NYT / Hannah Beech]
- The military government is already punishing dissidents, banning public protests and instituting an 8 pm curfew in the country's largest cities, as well as firing water cannons into crowds. [AP]
- Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the country's new ruler, made his first public address since the coup. He threatened harsher actions against protesters and said the army will eventually hold new elections. [Al Jazeera]
- In previous protests in 1988 and 2007, the military used live fire, killing hundreds. Thus far, no blood has been spilled. [Reuters]
- Protesters have rallied around Suu Kyi, wearing her party's colors in protests on Sunday and calling for her release. They used the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games and congregated despite a government-imposed internet blackout Saturday. [NPR / Jason Slotkin]
| | | | | | | Led by their defense, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl in a blowout over the Kansas City Chiefs, with quarterback Tom Brady winning his record seventh ring. | | | | | | | "If provoking an insurrectionary riot against a Joint Session of Congress after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, it is hard to imagine what would be." | | | | | | | | | | |
The Redditors of WallStreetBets should maybe take a look at the 1990s before piling into their next trade. The GameStop saga has shed a light on the growing individual investing trend, brought about by commission-free trading, gamified apps, and a lot of downtime during the pandemic. But, like so many trends, this isn't new: Day trading was super popular in the 1990s, when people were also looking on chat boards for stock tips and making speculative bets. Recode's Peter Kafka puts the current day trading craze into context. [Spotify / Peter Kafka] | | | | | | | | |  | This email was sent to edwardlorilla1986.paxforex@blogger.com. Manage your email preferences, or unsubscribe to stop receiving all emails from Vox. If you value Vox's unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.
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