After impeachment, all eyes turn to Senate (CNN article in 1998 shows spinelessness back then, too)

CNN ^ | December 20, 1998 | CNN

[DoodleBob]

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics) -- On the day after the House's historic vote to impeach President Bill Clinton, all eyes in Washington turned to the Senate, where the next chapter in the impeachment drama will play out.

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With Clinton making it clear that he won't resign, dialogue on the Sunday talks shows turned to whether the Senate should proceed to a full-fledged impeachment trial or negotiate an agreement that would censure, but not remove, the president...

..."The Constitution says if you receive these articles, you'll have a trial," Nickles said on "Fox News Sunday." "I think it can be done very quickly ... I think it could be done in three weeks if the White House wanted to."...

..."We're doing much more than simply deciding whether President Clinton should remain in office. We are, in fact, establishing precedent for impeachment in the future," he said on ABC's "This Week."

But some Democratic senators, and even some Republicans, believe that the Senate should try to find a way to avoid a trial for the good of the country.

"I think the people are saying to all of us ... enough, enough, enough," said Sen. John Breaux (D-Louisiana) on "This Week." "I don't know that a trial would give us any additional information that we don't already know about what happened. I mean, does the country really need to know more about what Monica Lewinsky did and when she did it and how she did it?

"We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to," Breaux said.

[Meatspace]

Clearly, Clinton was not impeached until the House sent the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate.

As for now, President Trump is not impeached.

[faithhopecharity]

There’s no purpose watching the debate on these fake impeachment charges done Pelousy won’t file them there. At least for now it’s dead -stillborn Just bullsheit fake charges with zero evidence - fake charges that don’t rise anywhere to impeachable offenses anyway

[Smedley]

"We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to," Breaux said. WHO ARE THESE RETARDS? How can you be a "trier" without a trial. Liberals are total idiots

[logi_cal869]

GMAFB