Senator Dick Durbin appeals to his Republican counterparts on the need for a formal impeachment trial in the Senate, says ‘we ought to really stand up for the demeanor, the history and the traditions of the Senate in terms of doing this in the proper way’
WASHINGTON - The senior U.S. Senate Democrat called on Sunday for the Republican-led chamber to demand testimony from four current and former White House aides in a trial expected early next year on whether to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Democrats in the House of Representatives, where they have a majority, also sought testimony from the four men in their inquiry into whether to impeach Trump over his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his Democratic political rival Joe Biden. Mulvaney, Blair and Duffey all defied subpoenas from a House committee and Bolton was not subpoenaed.
The obstruction charge against Trump is based partly on White House directives to officials not to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer holds a press conference to address the Department Of Justice Inspector General's report concerning the origins and handling of the 2016 election Russia investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 9, 2019.
He also laid out a timetable for the expected Senate trial, suggesting that pretrial proceedings take place on Jan. 6, and that senators and U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside, be sworn in the next day.
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