During Clinton’s impeachment, both Democrats and Republicans sought to inject some semblance of civility and impartiality into the proceedings. But for the Trump impeachment, it’s pure partisan spectacle
It seemed a bit too on the nose that Republican senators, swarmed by eager reporters, began to mount their Senate defenses ofmere feet away from the bust of Richard Nixon. After all, it is the 37th president who has drawn the greatest comparisons to Trump. “Is Ukrainegate worse than Watergate?” has been debated endlessly on cable news. But as the day wore on and the trial kicked off just after 1 p.m.
Even before the trial began on Tuesday, a number of Republican senators signaled that Trump was all but acquitted already. “The outcome that we will arrive upon is a judgment on the merits and an acquittal. The Senate is obliged to follow the law and on the face of it, the articles of impeachment that the House voted out don’t meet the constitutional standard for high crimes and misdemeanors,” Senatortold reporters.
the Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate at the time, sought consensus. And on the rules resolution in 1999 they achieved it, with all 100 senators voting for its passage. Writing in theto seek the same.
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