The Senate blocked the seventh proposed amendment to the impeachment trial rules on a party line vote. The latest amendment had to do with rules on how evidence is handled during the trial
House impeachment manager Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, explained the seventh proposed amendment by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as an attempt to close a “gaping hole” in the proposed rules for the trial.
“The amendment addresses that issue by providing that if any party seeks to admit, for the first time, here information that was previously subject to subpoena, that party must do a simple and fair thing,” Schiff said. “It must provide the opposing party all of the other documents responsive to the subpoena. That is how the law works in America.”
Schiff said the amendment would also require proper handling of confidential and classified information.
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