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“The House chose this road. It is their duty to investigate. It’s their duty to meet the very high bar for undoing a national election. As Speaker Pelosi herself once said, it is the House’s obligation to, quote, ‘build an ironclad case to act.’ If they fail, they fail. It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to guilty. That would hardly be impartial justice.”
The House Rules Committee met Tuesday to debate the rules governing the floor debate about whether to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
The committee debate, which started Tuesday morning, could last hours, as lawmakers debate issues such as how long the floor debate should last, which committees should have members debate on the floor and whether proposals for amendments should be allowed. The floor debate, which will be only the third time in history that the chamber debates impeachment recommendations from the Judiciary Committee against a president, is expected Wednesday and Thursday.
The Judiciary Committee recommended two articles of impeachment Friday, after party-line votes with Democrats supporting the charges and Republicans opposing them. The debate in the Rules Committee and on the floor could be just as polarized.
McConnell rejects Democrats’ proposal for Senate trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., rejected a proposal raised by Senate Democrats over the weekend that asked for four key witnesses to appear as part of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor Tuesday, was responding to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who outlined a proposal for how the trial should run and start the week of Jan. 6.
“By any ordinary legal standard, what House Democrats have assembled appears to be woefully inadequate to prove what they want to allege,” McConnell said, explaining why he opposed calling for the witnesses. “‘The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury. To hear a trial. Not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it.”
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