Doug Jones may vote against convicting Trump in impeachment if 'dots aren't connected'
Sen. Doug Jones, who faces a tough 2020 reelection battle as a Democrat in Alabama, said Sunday that he is open to voting to acquit President Donald Trump on the two articles of impeachment approved last week by the House of Representatives if he feels the evidence in the case is lacking.
Jones said he hadn't watched all of the testimony and debate in the House impeachment inquiry and was still"trying to see if the dots get connected." The unwillingness to hand over documents or allow administration officials to testify is why House Democrats included obstruction of Congress along with abuse of power in the articles of impeachment against Trump. Though Jones lamented the lack of White House cooperation, he did not say whether that was sufficient to convict Trump on the obstruction charge.
"As far as I'm concerned, they can tell which way they're leaning or how they feel in terms of the probability, but when it comes to saying, I made up my mind, it's all over, for goodness' sakes, that is not what the Constitution envisioned," Durbin said on CNN's"State of the Union." "The speaker has a lot of power. But once the House has spoken, the speaker doesn't get the decision as to whether or not she transmits that decision to the Senate, in my view," Blunt said.
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