Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer have made zero headway on designing a bipartisan set of rules for President Trump’s impeachment trial more than two weeks after their first face-to-face meeting.
Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer have made zero headway on designing a bipartisan set of rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial more than two weeks after their first face-to-face meeting on the matter.
The clashing viewpoints increases the possibility that McConnell seeks to build a partisan set of impeachment rules with the votes of 51 of his 53 senators. Though Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have expressed discomfort with McConnell's trial coordination with the White House counsel, neither have endorsed Schumer's approach, either.
Schumer continued to raise the prospect of McConnell falling short of a partisan power-play. Schumer can force votes on his preferred motions to subpoena new evidence and sounded hopeful that his efforts to force votes on new documents or testimony can succeed with the support of just four GOP senators.
Amid the two lengthy speeches, there was no indication either leader has any desire to compromise. Instead, their balky relationship was on full display, with McConnell gleefully dredging up Schumer’s 1998 campaign for his Senate seat as a vote against the removal of former President Bill Clinton.
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