Adam Schiff, who heads the House impeachment managers slammed Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's proposed Senate trial rules, saying it ‘is the process for a rigged trial'
Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, who helped spearhead the House impeachment inquiry, summarized the charges against Trump and said the president had committed “constitutional misconduct justifying impeachment.”
But Democrats said they forced Tuesday’s repeated votes on evidence and witnesses to get Republicans on the record on the issue. Under McConnell’s plan, lawyers for Trump could move early in the proceedings to ask senators to dismiss all charges, according to a senior Republican leadership aide, a motion that would likely fall short of the support needed to succeed.
House Managers Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Jerry Nadler walk to the Senate Floor for the start of the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert The Senate trial is expected to continue six days a week, Monday through Saturday, until at least the end of January.
No president has ever been removed through impeachment, a mechanism the nation’s founders - worried about a monarch on American soil - devised to oust a president for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
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