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Input: Consider Input: What now? Mrs Merkel will meet with Frank-Walter Steinmeier  Germanyâs federal president  this morning to discuss next steps. Four possible outcomes present themselves. The FDP might be coaxed back to the negotiating table by plausible concessions from the CDU  CSU and Greens. But do not count on it. Mr Lindnerâs language was ominously final. And the Greens (seemingly the main target of FDP recrimination) declared that they had reached their âpain thresholdâ and could not budge another centimetre.
The second possibility is a new âgrand coalitionâ marrying the CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SDP)  who together have a workable majority in the Bundestag. But the SPD has strenuously ruled out the option. Having lost distinctiveness and votes in partnership with  Mrs Merkel    its  leaders and activists fear another spin with the chancellor could do their party terminal damage. Perhaps  just perhaps   Mrs Merkel   the media and Germanyâs European partners can persuade them to take the risk. But months after its worst election result in post-war German history  the SPD will most probably reject the overtures.
In the absence of a viable majority government   Mrs Merkel  could form a minority one  concocting vote-by-vote majorities in the Bundestag. This might combine the CDU/CSU with the FDP  its traditional governing partner (together they would be 29 seats short of a majority). But a more natural fit would now be a black-green coalition with the Greens (42 seats short of a majority). Last night each side found generous words for the other  and they were as one in their contempt for the FDP. At federal level post-war Germany has witnessed no minority administrations  though one ran North-Rhine Westphalia  the countryâs largest state  from 2010 to 2012. Such governments are alien both to the stable  long-termist ways of the German state and to  Mrs Merkelâs  plodding leadership style. How long one would even last in the current circumstances is unclear.
That leaves the fourth  most drastic option: new elections. The route is not as simple as it sounds. Unlike some other European parliaments  the Bundestag cannot just dissolve itself (a legacy of Weimar-era instability) and as  Mrs Merkel  has not yet been reinstalled as chancellor  she  cannot call a straight confidence vote. Instead Mr Steinmeier must nominate a candidate for the job. If  Mrs Merkel  (for  it  would be  she ) failed to win an absolute majority in two successive Bundestag votes  which can be separated by two weeks   she  would go to a third vote at which a simple majority would suffice. Only then could Mr Steinmeier dissolve the Bundestag  triggering a new election within 60 days.
If possible  Germanyâs establishmentâincluding  Mrs Merkel  and Mr Steinmeierâwill seek to avoid new elections. These could most benefit the far-right Alternative for Germany and would not necessarily rupture the deadlock  current polls putting the main parties very close to the results they obtained at the September election. In  her  comments last night  Mrs Merkel  emphasised that  her  party would âtake responsibility for this country  even in difficult timesâ.  She  is determined  in other words  to make the best of the hand the German people dealt  her  in September. Precisely how  she  plans to proceed should become clearer today.
In recent years Germany has been a pillar of stable government in Europe and  Mrs Merkel  a seemingly permanent feature of the landscape (consider that  her  international counterparts when  she  first took office were Jacques Chirac  Tony Blair and George W. Bush). Both of those truths are now  if not dead  then slipping away. The next German government will take months more to emerge and will be distinctly fragile in comparison with its predecessors. The end of the Merkel era has surely begun  though whether it has weeks  months or a short number of years to run is anyoneâs guess. Last nightâs events confirmed Emmanuel Macron as Europeâs top leader while making the French presidentâs grand plans for euro-zone reformâfor which he needs a confident and outward-looking Germanyâyet harder to achieve. The ripples of Mr Lindnerâs doubtful decision will travel far beyond his countryâs borders.

Output: Germanyâs preliminary coalition talks collapse


Input: Consider Input: The clock has finally run out for an Upper East Side judge who ridiculed a lawyer with cerebral palsy and allowed cases involving tenants without heat or hot water to drag on   sources told The Post . The Manhattan Housing Court ’ s advisory council   which reviews its judges after each four - year term   recently ruled that jurist Susan Avery should get the boot — as it catalogued years of complaints against her   sources said . Avery ’ s chief - judge boss is now set to follow through on the recommendation by the end of the year   sources said . “ Considering the complaints against her   it ’ s about time for her to leave the bench  ” said Alan Flacks   a longtime local resident pushing for judicial reform . Avery   52   of East 84th Street   landed her $ 175   000 - a - year job in 2012 thanks to a political appointment by then - Chief Judge Gail Prudenti . But she started demonstrating poor judgment almost immediately from the bench   according to the 14 - member Advisory Council for the Housing Part of the Civil Court of New York City . In 2013   Avery reprimanded a lawyer with cerebral palsy for his sloppy handwriting   the panel said in its four - page finding   which called the judge “ unfeeling .’’ The incident resulted in a letter of caution being placed in Avery ’ s file   according to a court source . The council — comprised of representatives from both the real - estate industry and tenants ’ organizations appointed by the mayor and governor — also criticized Avery for “ excessive multi - week adjournments ” for cases involving lack of heat and hot water   said the letter   a copy of which was read to The Post . The advisory council said in its decision last month that the New York Law School grad showed a general “ lack of concern ” for the litigants before her . The council added it was “ disturbed further ” by conflicts of interests involving the Housing Court judge ’ s family real - estate holdings . A court source said  Avery  failed to disclose that a law firm administering a family trust also regularly represents landlords in cases before the judge . Meanwhile   the jurist garnered a “ not approved ” rating by the city Bar Association — twice . Voters also refused to back her two bids to move up to civil court . In the summer of 2016    a judge who was running against Avery for a civil - court position  lodged a complaint over her campaign tactics . Justice Sabrina Kraus   who was appointed to the bench in 2005   accused Avery ’ s boyfriend of making derogatory comments about her Iranian heritage on Facebook .  Avery  failed to disavow the remarks   showing ethnic bias   the advisory panel added . Kraus beat  Avery  to win the seat .  Avery  ran for civil court again this year but lost in the September primary .  Avery  did not respond to multiple requests for comment . The former chief judge who appointed her   Prudenti   said she had no memory of choosing her .

Output: Controversial housing court judge to finally get the axe


Input: Consider Input: The white rose movement was bolstered by one of the show-stopping moments of Grammys night: Kesha singing âPrayingâ with the help of fellow pop stars Cyndi Lauper  Bebe Rexha  Camila Cabello  Julia Michaels  and Andra Day  as well as The Resistance Revival Chorus. Prior to the show  Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich had said that âPrayingâ would have made an appearance regardless of "whether these past few months [of #MeToo] had happened or not.â But the song was charged with the context of the timeâand made a social statement more complicatedly powerful than might be expected.
 Kesha  released âPrayingâ as a comeback single after she underwent a very public legal fight with her producer and label boss  Dr. Luke  over her allegations that he harassed and raped her. He denied her claims  and a judge nixed her attempt to be released from her record contract. âPraying â an intense piano ballad put out through the label Luke founded  took a moving but oblique approach to the matter.  Kesha  sang to an unnamed someone who had harmed  her âto offer the hope that someday  his soul might be saved.
That somewhat saintly stance was emphasized tonight in the blazing white clothes of  Kesha  and  her  backup singers. A beautiful a cappella opening passage made the central lyricââsometimes  I pray for you at nightââunmissable. But  Keshaâs  intensity was not that of an exhortative preacher but of an actual  ailing human being.  She  didnât aim to hit the recorded versionâs high notes  but  her  quavering voice and knotted eyebrows communicated sentiment that only a cynic could called canned. When the song ended   she  broke down crying  and was embraced by  her  famous compatriots.
To anyone familiar with the specifics of  Keshaâs  situation and the state of the music industry  the subtext was not of total triumph. Over the decades  record companies have profited immensely from exactly the sort of exploitation of young female talent that  Kesha  accused Dr. Luke of partaking in. A study released by USC this past week brought stark confirmation of just how rare female singers  songwriters  and producers are in mainstream pop. And in the most important awards categories for this yearâs Grammys  women are sidelined: All the Record of the Year nominees are men  and only one woman is nominated in Album of the Year and Song of the Year.
To address this state of affairs   Kesha  offered not revolutionary anger but solidarity  catharsis  and a call to take the high road. When introducing  Kesha   Janelle Monae gave a crisp  rousing #MeToo-themed speech that told women  âWe have the power to undo the culture that does not serve us well.â The swelling sound of âPrayingâ suggested that taking power would happen at the same time as healing  and with surprising compassion for those whoâve caused the wounds.


Output: Kesha Gives the Grammys Its #MeToo Moment With 'Praying'