so does the Senate have to call anymore witnesses? Do they have a vote for each witness?
Oh, that’s right.
I’d almost forgotten that a very bitter John Bolton is just chompin’ at the bit to go on record about his ‘perplexing’ experiences with President Trump.
Let’s get it done then John. Step forward with your big grocery bag full of Sour Grapes.
I was not aware the Democrats ran the Senate also
The dems get to present their evidence, not conduct a new investigation in the senate. But I think mcconnel will stab Trump in the back and bring bolton in to testify, bolton will hurt Trumps. Without direct evidence, this is the end of executive privilege. I hope that Trump and Barr fight this, but who know what the supreme court will do.
They probably have fbi/nsa recordings and transcripts to bolster their case. They want to drop them in the senate.
So while in the House, Republicans have to ask permission—and have it denied to call witnesses, in the Senate Dems get to call who they want?
LOL The Dems in the Senate are the MINORITY..so they can bitch and moan all they want they do NOT call the shots
So the bickering on process has begun. We can expect it to be Kavanaugh on steroids with the GOP Senate again tip toeing through the tulips and accommodating the Democrats.
Is it an impeachment or just an inquiry? Democrats want you to think it’s the former because they are liars. Them and their cohorts in the media have such forked tongues that you can never tell exactly what they’re saying.
This really should simply be remanded forthwith to the House, with prejudice an an enumeration of the legal traducements it entails.
I just don’t trust Bolton. McConnell better not cave to Schumer.
So Schumer doesn’t want to prosecute the articles of impeachment that may be presented to the Senate from the House, he wants to conduct new investigations disguised as a trial?
Oh yes, so very “concerning.” Surely they have him now.
Propagandists always win with short impactful soundbites. Try to explain “Executive Privilege” versus the Rat talking point of “Obstruction of Justice”. The Rats win with sound bites and their at the ready activists that pose as journalists. There should be a trial with TWO witnesses and only two witnesses. Eric Ciarmella the CIA spy and Adam Schift the liar and deranged congressman. Put the weasel blower on the stand and get him to explain his who what where when and expose everything about his FALSE weasel blower statement. At the same time, assuming he will lie, get him to discuss the weasel blower form being changed just to see him squirm. Adam Schift... just bury him with his “paraphrasing” the President’s phone call. Get him to fully expose that a US Congressman on the dais has IMMUNITY to commit perjury against the President. Keep it short and simple and then vote.
Ok, Kids! Are you seeing it now?
The Dems took over ‘Education’ DECADES ago so the current electorate wouldn’t have a CLUE as to how our Constitution works, let alone how the three separate powers of our Government Branches work! Chuckie Scumbucket doesn’t even know, LOL!
OMFG! We are seeing this in REAL TIME in our LIFETIME! Granted, they didn’t dumb down the populace for President Trump SPECIFICALLY, but it was nice to have in their back pocket, so to speak. *SPIT*
Can’t we just call Democrats, ‘Full Frontal Communists’ and call it a day? Yeesh!
The Democrats should not be able to present any evidence that was not presented in the House. The Senate trial is about the charges and evidence presented by the House, not its own investigation of new charges.
Blah. The Republican Senators will hold the line against the Rats. Their phony baloney jobs depend on it.
We normals are not amused.
Trump can be as vindictive bringing justice to the bad actors as necessary later on. We should want to see lawsuits like: US vs Comey, etc.
Impeachment is only a charge. The Senate can only try just the Articles presented by the House.
A committee of House Representatives, called “managers,” acts as prosecutors before the Senate.
The Senators consider evidence, hear witnesses, and vote to acquit or convict the impeached official.
In the case of presidential impeachment trials, the chief justice of the United States presides.
It is, however a legislative process not a judicial one. Normal court rules of admissibility and due process do not necessarily apply.
The DEMs call the bluffs of Trump/Cruz/et al over what they’ll present as witnesses in a Senate trial, and raise them additional witnesses. Seems everyone talking is convinced impeachment will pass the House.