Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Schumer start the year deadlocked over Senate impeachment trial.
If and when that happens, he said, “We’ll have to decide whether we’re going to safeguard core governing traditions or let short-term partisan rage overcome them.” He accused Democrats of conducting the impeachment inquiry in a manner that"has jeopardized the foundations of our system of government.
Speaking on the floor after McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that his GOP counterpart had engaged in a lot of “finger-pointing” and “name-calling” without weighing on the question he said was holding up the Senate trial: “Whether there will be witnesses and documents.” “He has no good argument against having witnesses and documents, so he resorts to these subterfuges,” Schumer said. “Instead of trying to find the truth, he is still using the same feeble talking points that he was using last December.”
Schumer said that there is only one precedent that matters: “There has never, never in the history of the country been an impeachment trial of the president in which the Senate was denied the ability to hear from witnesses.
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