Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has opposed calling any witnesses in the trial.
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Trump’s lawyers in impeachment trial urge dismissal, say he did ‘nothing wrong’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s organizing resolution, circulated late Monday afternoon, offers each side 24 hours to make opening arguments starting Wednesday.
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Read Sen. Collins’ statement on impeachment trial process
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins released this statement Thursday on the impeachment trial process: There has been a lot of mischaracterization and misunderstanding about my position on the process the Senate should follow for the impeachment trial. Rather than have my position relayed through the interpretation of others, I wanted to state it directly: 1. From […]
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Our View: Sen. Susan Collins should demand to see all the evidence
Unless some Republicans break ranks, this won’t be a trial – it will be a cover-up.
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Trump assembles a made-for-TV impeachment defense team
The president adds two new attorneys – Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz – who are known for their involvement in consequential legal dramas of recent American history, and for their regular appearances on Fox News.
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Collins sends strong signal she’d support calling witnesses
Maine’s senior senator issues a statement seeking to clarify her position on the matter.
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Roberts takes central role in Trump’s trial, pledging to ‘do impartial justice’
But the chief justice’s predecessors have not left much of a road map for only the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.
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Senators sign long-used oath book for impeachment trial
Signing the book is a way of conveying the gravity of presidential and judicial impeachment trials, which are rare.
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Trump’s impeachment trial begins as senators swear an oath of ‘impartial justice’
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff reads the formal charges from the well of the U.S. Senate and Chief Justice John Roberts later administers the jurors’ oath to senators.
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Giuliani associate says Trump ‘knew exactly what was going on’ in Ukraine shadow campaign against Biden
New materials made public by the House Intelligence Committee follow an initial trove released Tuesday night that showed Lev Parnas directly involved with efforts to get the Ukrainian president to announce investigations related to former vice president Joe Biden.