Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says 'I want a trial'.
While the House is all but certain to impeach President Donald Trump over allegations that he sought to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations targeting political rivals in exchange for the release of nearly $400 million in military aid and a White House meeting – the path for the impeachment inquiry in the Senate is still unclear.
The Republican majority in the Senate could potentially vote to immediately dismiss the case without considering any evidence – as some Republican senators have already suggested. Graham, in 2015, referred to Biden as “the nicest person I think I've ever met in my life, and as good a person as God ever created.”
“I want the whistleblower, who put in a false report, to testify,” Trump said, adding that he believes the individual “is a political operative.” During this meeting, officials raised the prospect of shortening the proceedings to about two weeks. President Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings in the Senate in 1999 lasted five weeks.
A team of lawmakers from the House, known as managers, would play the role of prosecutors. The president would also be afforded his own defense lawyers. The Senate would serve as the jury. Other senators are assembling teams of staff attorneys and researchers to help analyze and study the case.
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