[confederatecarpetbag]

The Senate would have to act on a trial, but that could be done with relative dispatch. McConnell would be able to set either broad or narrow parameters on which evidence/witnesses is admissible. The fly in the ointment is maintaining 51 GOP senators to go along with how each item is dispensed. That’s no sure thing and how it plays out would affect the length of any trial. But I don’t see any way 67 senators vote to remove Trump from office. That’s a bridge too far.

I hear the Dems in the House plan an Articles of Impeachment vote around Thanksgiving, but I still believe that may be a smokescreen. There is simply no ROI for Dems to pursue this - but I speak as a rational person, so who knows what goes through their tyrannical minds?

[matt04]

Who knows. The Thanksgiving Timeline they are proposing were talking about seems a little off to me. When do you wanna wait until everything you need and not take an arbitrary time frame?

[Tonytitan]

As it turns out, the Constitution's only stipulations about an impeachment trial is that it declares the Senate to be the only venue where impeachment trials occur and that the Chief Justice is the presiding judge. That's all. It doesn't even mandate that a trial take place nor give guidance as to when it occurs.

This is someone else's great idea. McConnell could even postpone an impeachment proceeding until after the 2020 election using the rationale of letting the electorate keep or remove Trump as opposed to having the Senate do it. It would keep members from having one less thing to answer to the voters over.