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BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader McConnell Lays Out Ground Rules for Trump's Impeachment Trial
Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2020 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 01/20/2020 3:38:13 PM PST by jazusamo

RESOLUTION AT LINK.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday released a resolution laying out the ground rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.

Trump's team and the House of Representatives have until 9 a.m. on Wednesday to file any motions. The exception being motions to subpoena witnesses or documents. All responses filed to any motions have to be in by 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

The trial will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The House will have two days to make their case for impeachment but their time allotment cannot exceed 24 hours. After that, Trump's legal team will be given two days to make their case and again, that cannot exceed a 24 hour time period.

Once the president's team finishes their presentation, senators can ask questions but they are limited to a 16-hour time frame. There will then be a 4-hour argument split between the House and Trump's team. Deliberation will follow. At that time the Senate will decide whether or not to subpoena witnesses or documents.

If the Senate decides to allow either side to subpoena witnesses, the witnesses will undergo a deposition and then the Senate will decide if those witnesses will testify.

Once the deliberations are concluded the Senate will vote on each individual article of impeachment.

Below is the full resolution:

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.


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81 posted on 01/20/2020 7:00:24 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: lodi90
Sadly , I knew Mitch wants Trump badly damaged.
Mitch wants Trump gone in 2020 . He hates him like most of DC elites.
His Globalist owners like China wanted that TPA treasonous treaty and more Nafta disaster treaties with more Chinese like crap flooding this country and there excess third world population .

This Circus will be unreal folks .
The Kav freak show on crack .
90% of the gop senate are globalist pawns / never trumpers .

pp

82 posted on 01/20/2020 7:03:24 PM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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To: DarthVader

Wow! Incredible lineup. Things just went up a notch. Trump is brilliant.


83 posted on 01/20/2020 7:17:27 PM PST by nicksaunt
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To: Jeff Chandler

Shhhh!


84 posted on 01/20/2020 7:19:22 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: TigersEye
McConnell has put into the rules the possibility of dismissal at the outset.

Laura Ingraham says she learned tonight just the opposite -- NO motion to dismiss is provided in Mitch's rules. Don't know whose right on this, but the weak-spined Pubs shouldn't let the Dems drive this with witnesses, continual new evidence, etc.

85 posted on 01/20/2020 7:23:25 PM PST by CedarDave (Democrats are the Granola Party -full of fruits, nuts and flakes. And they lie, that's who they are.)
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To: CedarDave
She then went on to implore listeners to call the capital switchboard and tell their pub senators to insist on having a motion to dismiss in the rules.

202-224-3121

86 posted on 01/20/2020 7:28:11 PM PST by CedarDave (Democrats are the Granola Party -full of fruits, nuts and flakes. And they lie, that's who they are.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Ding, ding, ding. Finally the correct answer. The zoom feature mentioned previously will shove some content out of view, your solution just increases the size of the text.


87 posted on 01/20/2020 7:30:39 PM PST by Woodman
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To: DarthVader

HA!

Jordan and Meadows are good fighters. And the New Yorkers will have Nadler pissing himself in short order.

Sic ‘em!


88 posted on 01/20/2020 7:34:04 PM PST by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The D caucus in the Senate has the hard stuff in stock for their House cadre, er, comrad, er, colleagues.

89 posted on 01/20/2020 7:38:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CedarDave

It’s there from line 5 to line 19.


90 posted on 01/20/2020 7:41:17 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: DarthVader; nicksaunt; Delta 21

91 posted on 01/20/2020 7:45:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

They ask written questions to Roberts, who then publicly reads them.


92 posted on 01/20/2020 8:42:41 PM PST by Dave W
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To: CedarDave
Sigh...read it again. If after both sides present their arguments, the Senate will then decide to have witnesses. If both sides are happy that all has been said, then they can vote to acquit/convict or vote to have witnesses.

My guess is they will vote to have witnesses.

93 posted on 01/20/2020 8:50:57 PM PST by Dave W
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To: Neanderthal

“I better hear liberals complaining about these rules, the louder the better.”

they already are ...bitterly!


94 posted on 01/20/2020 10:07:03 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“It doesn’t matter what rules are laid down, the second it starts the Rats and the media are going to immediately claim the trial is unfair and fixed.”

hell,they’ve already been saying that for weeks ...


95 posted on 01/20/2020 10:11:25 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: CMailBag

25 years of pathetic entertainment...LOL.


96 posted on 01/20/2020 10:11:30 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: CMailBag

25 years of pathetic entertainment...LOL.


97 posted on 01/20/2020 10:11:33 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: onyx

Command+plus key APPLE


98 posted on 01/20/2020 10:36:38 PM PST by ptsal
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To: catnipman

Suckie Schumer has already done that. If he hates it, it’s definitely a great idea.


99 posted on 01/20/2020 10:38:35 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: onyx

If you plug in a mouse with a scroll wheel, hit Control and scroll to the size you like. :)


100 posted on 01/20/2020 10:45:03 PM PST by Does so (...Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election...)
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