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In Pegasus snooping row, which triggered a major political storm earlier this year, the Supreme Court today said it's forming a three-member probe panel and the next hearing will be held after two months.

ALBANY — The name of former Gov. William Sulzer, who briefly ruled Albany more than a century ago, generally finds its way into conversations on two specific occasions. One is whenever an incumbent governor is accused of some serious misdeed. Sulzer remains the only of New Yorks 56 governors to have ever been impeached. The story of his removal in 1913 has appeared in dozens of newspapers on each of the two more-recent occasions when the prospect of a new impeachment trial has appeared plaus...

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He set up a certain measure of independence built into the system by having a currently serving u.s. attorney conduct the investigation with a fair degree of latitude to decide appropriately whether or not there is a criminal case. finally americans understand in our system of government that the ultimate check on the power of a prosecutor are juries. meaning members of the community. if charges are brought and there is something inappropriate about those charges ultimately it will be for a jury...

>> sandra: were wrapping another week asking the question why cant it be a more transparent process in order to bring the american people along with it? >> i think it will be a very transparent process shortly. at that point the critics who say it is not transparent will say its political. you are making a political case. thats exactly what impeachment is and what the constitution spells out. i think the argument here is all about process because guess what? the presidents defenders dont like th...

Constitutional process. i shouldnt say judicial, a legal, constitutional process. no statute or rule of the congress that says you have to do it this way or that way. theyve chosen to do it in a way that allows witnesses to feel that they can say honestly and not have future witnesses have them say oh, well i heard so and so said this and that. thats a grand jury process. >> congress has not made the determination. schiff made the determination. i will put one transcript out a day. leak what i w...

You suggest? what are democrats so worried about? lets find out what really happened. if its deserving of prosecution, then they will have their day in court. maybe they will find that the facts show that there was a lot of troubling things, wrongdoing but not criminal activity and we can move on. >> troubling thing ive seen around congress for 50 years is schiffs behavior as the chairman of this committee where he is not letting the republicans participate at all in the process. i have lived th...