Posted on 11/14/2019 9:56:18 AM PST by Red Badger
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) will be called as a witness in a Senate impeachment trial, which will be held if the House votes to impeach President Donald Trump.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he’d call Schiff to testify during an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity” late Nov. 13.
Graham also said he wouldn’t let a trial of Trump be based on hearsay evidence alone. A trial would also not be held if the whistleblower doesn’t testify, he said.
“Let’s say they get 218 votes. Here’s what I promise the country. We’re not going to try the president of the United States based on hearsay. So any resolution setting up a trial in the Senate, I’m going to make sure that hearsay cannot be the basis of an impeachment allegation,” Graham told host Sean Hannity.
“If you invoke the hearsay rule, what would be left?”
“A trial in the Senate, to me, should not legitimize what’s going on in the House. No American is denied the right to call witnesses on their behalf, except for Donald Trump. No American is accused of wrongdoing anonymously, except Donald Trump. What they’re doing in the House is a danger to the presidency itself,” Graham continued.
“So any trial in the Senate needs to make sure that you can’t impeach a president based on hearsay, because that’s a danger to the presidency itself. And secondly, any trial in the Senate must expose the whistleblower so the president can confront his accuser. I will not accept a trial in the Senate until I know who the whistleblower is.”
A trial in the Senate is held if a president is impeached by the House. The trial is presided over by the chief justice of the Supreme Court. If the Senate convicts the president, he is removed from office; if it does not, he remains in office. No president has ever been convicted of impeachment. Conviction requires a two-thirds concurrence of those present.
Nope. Shift can be called without the need being his house statements.
Hey PJT, Schiff’s immunity is limited to his acts on the floor of Congress, not to actions as his staff did by coordinating with Eric CIAramella prior to his filing with the new “hearsay” rules to the IG Deep State clown.
So IMHO, this is no hollow threat. Schiff can very well be called along with CIAramella to explain what they did together.
-PJ
Add Nancy Pelosi to the witness list.
Well reasoned post and, I think, you are correct on the total risk to our future. We have seen no evidence of major coup players being brought to justice and the Senate is very quiet except for all hat and no cattle Lindsay Graham. Real justice and a course correction back to a Representative Republic may have to come about through an uprising of Patriotic Americans.
A lot of good posts from you. You should be running the show. Thanks for a lot of enlightenment.
Wow — thanks! :-)
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