Tuesday’s debate about impeachment trial procedures served as a proxy war for the broader arguments the House and President Trump’s attorneys will make about the conduct at the heart of the impeachment proceedings.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) forced eleven votes on subpoenas for documents and witness testimony to be secured at the beginning of the trial. The gambit that stretched Tuesday’s proceedings until nearly 2 in the morning, before the GOP Senate could pass the resolution proposed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that would delay subpoenas decisions until much later in the trial.
Each amendment vote failed, but the exercise …read more
Source:: TPM
