While the prospect of a quick trial is good news for the six United States senators currently running for president, the proposed timetable would cut deeply into the time they would normally spend crisscrossing Iowa and New Hampshire
Senate President Pro Tem Strom Thurmond swears in Chief Justice William Rehnquist to preside over the 1999 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton.
Trump has reportedly been pushing for the Senate to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him preemptively, at the risk of losing the claim of “exoneration” that a trial, however brief and phony, might support to those who had no idea what was going on. But Senate Republicans thought that might be a bit off message given their whining about House Democrats not following constitutional and congressional protocols in the impeachment inquiry.
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