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That is the elegance in the Lott proposal. After the mini-trial, there would be two votes on whether to conduct a full-blown trial, each requiring a two-thirds vote to go ahead. In the probable event they would fail, the trial would adjourn and the Senate would take up censure. Temporarily setting aside the messy issue of how to craft a censure resolution that would satisfy all sides, the obsessively punctilious Lott had devised an exit strategy that seemed to have something in it for everyone. Conservatives would get a trial, albeit a brief one, and a chance...
...result the council could not vote on the bill and was forced to adjourn for the evening
Most evenings after court, Baker and his team would adjourn to the law offices of Baker, Silberberg & Keener, housed in a huge, black-glass building next to the Santa Monica airport on Ocean Park Boulevard, just minutes from the courthouse. There, a four-module space called the "O.J. Archive" is filled with documents from the trial--and before. Johnnie Cochran, who had recommended his friend Baker to Simpson, sent over photocopies of all the defense documents in October 1995, immediately after it became clear that a civil suit was to be lodged. The Los Angeles district attorney's office, however...
When it became clear that other Republicans, already bruised by the backlash to the perceived antienvironmental bias of their party, were unwilling to help him, Murkowski shifted his strategy. As Congress tried to adjourn, he vowed to hold up an omnibus parks bill that would, among many other provisions, protect Sterling Forest in the Northeast and provide funding for San Francisco's Presidio, a new national park, unless the Administration agreed to supply cheap timber for KPC's sawmills. He failed, settling for an agreement that would provide timber to the mills at market prices for a two-year transition...
Council members attempted to maintain quorum and defeated several motions to adjourn because they wanted to address legislation rather than put it aside until next year...