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New book by former Pa. state senator calls for environmental rights amendment to the Constitution Updated Apr 29, 2021; Posted Apr 29, 2021 Franklin Kury, author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendments, points to need for national amendment in new book. (File photo) Facebook Share An amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment is the call issued in a new book by Franklin Kury, who more than 50 years ago, as a newly elected Pennsylvania state senator, drafted and championed an Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution. That...

Where do we go on this very fast timeline to vote on articles of impeachment? >> there are two important tracks, in the house and senate. on the house side, certainly what those articles of impeachment will look like, how does the house potentially pull in some of the mueller investigation or do they try to stay focused on ukraine and how does pelosi manage the anxiety we're seeing from the house democrats that were slow to get on board. i would really watch the senate. that's where it's going to head after the holidays. the republican senate will hold a trial and if everything holds up, it wi...

Who did the opposite thing. if you look at just going back and the concerns everybody raised about brett kavanaugh. how many people actually voted against him in the end? it's easy for the gop to do everything preliminary and look like they might be on the fence and then side with the president. >> the question is whether any republicans want to make a statement about the president's conduct, in the course of the trial, short of impeaching him. we haven't seen whether they want room to make that statement. we'll take a break and come right back. when we come back, we'll talk about house speake...

I prey fay for the president ale time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. >> we can talk about james and talk about the provacative nature of that question, but that was a moment that really got at something here, which is we know impeachment is a political process. but as it becomes so personal and so much about delegitimizing public figures, that that overtakes the constitutional question. >> it was a striking moment and it's clear what pelosi is trying to do. she's trying to separate personal feelings that democrats have about the president from what she views as a viol...

Has gotten up and said i don't want to do this unless it is bipartisan. i don't want to do this unless we can get republican votes are going to be played over and over again in a reality where we don't have republican votes. she again will say that they had no choice and that republicans are overlooking constitutional violations. but i do think that's a real obstacle. >> and the reality is we saw it in the constitutional scholars the other day. one of the scholars talking about the president's son, bringing it into personal terms. there are a lot of democrats who just plain hate the president....