The Spin: President Trump impeached again | Welch unseats Madigan to become Illinois’ first Black House speaker | Legislature approves sweeping criminal justice overhaul

President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time on Wednesday, with just a week left in his term, after being charged with “incitement of insurrection” for last week’s violent mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The U.S. House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump, a tally that included 10 Republicans. Illinois’ delegation of 18 members — 13 Democrats and five Republicans — voted largely along partisan lines. All 13 Democrats voted for it, as did Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

State Rep. Michael Madigan’s reign as Illinois House speaker ended today when Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch took control of the chamber. Welch, a Hillside Democrat, becomes the Illinois House’s first Black speaker.

And Illinois lawmakers passed a sweeping criminal justice overhaul that among other things would end cash bail and eventually require every police officer in the state to be equipped with a body camera.

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House votes to impeach Trump for the second time, one week after Capitol riot, with 10 Republicans joining in historic rebuke

From The Associated Press: “President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with ‘incitement of insurrection’ over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.

“With the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after violent pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol, urged on by the president’s calls for them to ‘fight like hell’ against the election results.

“Ten Republicans fled Trump, joining Democrats who said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a ‘clear and present danger’ if Congress should leave him unchecked before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20.

“Trump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached. It was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in modern times, more so than against Bill Clinton in 1998.” Read more here.

* Trump endures 2nd impeachment largely silent and alone, releases subdued video disavowing violence by supporters

* Trump’s iron grip on the GOP loosens: 10 Republicans vote to impeach as McConnell considers voting to convict

‘Right side of history’: 14 Illinois members of Congress vote to impeach Trump a second time

From the Tribune’s Bill Ruthhart: “Fourteen Illinois members of Congress made the historic vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, most of them doing so for the second time in little more than a year.

“All 13 Illinois Democrats and Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Channahon voted to remove the president from office, citing his role in encouraging the marauding mob that left five people dead, dozens more injured and members of Congress fearing for their lives as they hid in the Capitol.

“‘It was a sobering moment to vote in support of impeachment today; to walk over to the U.S. Capitol, our symbol of democracy, and recall the violent insurrection we witnessed here just one week ago,’ said Kinzinger, who was one of 10 Republicans voting to remove Trump to make it the most bipartisan impeachment vote in U.S. history. ‘This is not a vote I took lightly, but a vote I took confidently. I’m at peace.’

“In addition to the deadly insurrection, the single article of impeachment also cited Trump’s repeated attempts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November. It concluded that the president ‘threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperiled a co-equal branch of government’ causing ‘manifest injury to the people of the United States.’” Read the rest here.

Kinzinger has at times criticized Trump and was the lone Republican in the Illinois congressional delegation who Trump did not ask to serve as an “honorary state chair” on his reelection bid.

* Chicago Fire Department aware of image of suspect in Capitol attack who wore ‘CFD’ hat

* Feds say Chicago man charged with entering US Capitol during attack posted photo outside Nancy Pelosi’s office

Michael Madigan’s decadeslong grip on Illinois ends as House Democrats set to make Rep. Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch state’s first Black speaker

From the Tribune’s Rick Pearson, Dan Petrella, Jamie Munks, Ray Long and Megan Crepeau: “State Rep. Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch became the first Black speaker of the Illinois House Wednesday, as Democrats rejected another term for scandal-plagued Michael Madigan, ending the Southwest Side Democrat’s decadeslong reign as the undisputed power behind Illinois politics.

“Welch, of west suburban Hillside, got 70 votes from the 118-member chamber, where Democrats hold 73 seats, as a new General Assembly was sworn into office. His job is now to chart a new future for the chamber’s Democrats after nearly four decades of Madigan’s almost single-handed control of both the party and state agendas.

“Republicans backed Jim Durkin of Western Springs, who will remain House GOP leader and, with Madigan’s loss of the speaker’s job, becomes the longest-serving of the General Assembly’s four partisan legislative leaders.

“With the formal vote for speaker on the floor of the Bank of Springfield Center, the state enters a new political age with a diverse Democratic caucus that will try to shed the negative baggage that it has carried in recent years in backing Madigan’s leadership.” Read the rest of Team Tribune’s coverage here.

* Rep. Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, Madigan’s successor as Illinois House speaker, faces questions about his treatment of women

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Illinois General Assembly approves sweeping criminal justice overhaul that would end cash bail, require cops to wear body cameras

From the Tribune’s Dan Petrella: “State lawmakers on Wednesday passed a sweeping overhaul of the state’s criminal justice system that would end cash bail and eventually require every police officer in the state to be equipped with a body camera.

“The measures, approved by narrow margins in the final hours of the Illinois General Assembly’s lame-duck session, were spurred on by the public outcry over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other African Americans at the hands of police in the last year and represent a signature accomplishment for the Legislative Black Caucus.

“The Black Caucus succeeded in passing three of the four pillars of its agenda in just five days. In addition to the criminal justice legislation, the caucus also won approval for wide-ranging measures aimed at addressing inequality in education and economic development.” Read the rest here.

* Time runs out for ban on locked seclusion and face-down restraints in Illinois schools; advocates vow to try again

* Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli’s message to President-elect Joe Biden: Defund ICE, halt deportations for a year

Some at-risk older citizens in Chicago could start getting vaccines next week, city’s public health commissioner says

From the Tribune’s John Byrne: “Small numbers of at-risk older Chicagoans could start getting COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next week, the city’s health commissioner said Wednesday.

“While the city is still focused on vaccinating front-line health care workers in the first phase of the vaccine distribution, Dr. Allison Arwady said hospitals might be allowed to start reaching out themselves next week to at-risk patients age 65 and older.

“This will not be a situation where older citizens can start registering to get the shots, Arwady emphasized. For the most part, she said, health care workers are still ‘snapping up’ available doses the city receives, and those are the workers who will continue to get first dibs.

“But there is some ‘inconsistent uptake’ among employees from one hospital to the next around the city, Arwady told aldermen during a City Council committee hearing on the vaccine rollout.” Read the rest here.

* 10 Chicago businesses cited for COVID-19 violations, including one restaurant also cited a week earlier

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