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NPR News: 04-17-2024 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

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NPR News: 04-17-2024 7PM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington I'm Windsor Johnston. The Senate has rejected both articles of impeachment

0:26.8

against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Myorkus.

0:30.8

NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports the impeachment trial only lasted a couple of hours.

0:37.0

The articles brought by House Republicans in February charged Myorcus with willfully

0:41.3

ignoring the law and breaching the public's trust.

0:45.0

Republicans argue Myorkus is refusing to enforce immigration laws.

0:49.2

Democrats call the opposition a policy dispute and say it doesn't rise to high crimes and misdemeanors.

0:55.1

Senators voted to kill both articles largely along partisan lines.

0:58.8

Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski voted present on the first article.

1:04.2

Republicans are eager to put border security front and center during this election year.

1:09.2

President Biden's handling of the

1:15.0

capital. The U.S. Mexico border remains a week spot politically for him

1:14.0

according to recent public opinion polls.

1:16.0

Barbara Sprint and Pier News, the Capitol.

1:19.0

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a decision that will make it easier for workers to bring employment

1:25.4

discrimination suits over work transfers.

1:29.3

NPRs Nina Totenberg has more.

1:31.9

By a unanimous vote, the Court ruled in favor of a St. Louis police

1:35.5

sergeant who claimed that her sex was the reason she was transferred out of a

1:39.6

prestigious job that she'd held in the Intelligence Division for nine years.

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