This is NOT a criminal trial and the 6th does not apply.
Even in an impeachment, the President is supposed to have his chance to defend himself. That’s a constitutional right, as is the right to a speedy trial.
Not according to Alan Dershowitz...He brought this very thing up this morning on the radio...He said the 6th Amendment does apply to this impeachment....
It is a trial, and the president is being tried for crimes. High crimes and misdemeanors at it were. I doubt anyone would have ever imagined a speaker would withhold the walking of the charges to the senate. The Supremes have not had to EVER rule on something so silly and basic. But since the issue has never been looked at by them...
DK
And when I looked up subpoenas and congress there was a decision that the Supremes gave congress limited power to use them especially with private persons in their legislative function. This was in the 1920s. I don’t want to read much legal history, it is more boring than regular history. But it is not an enumerated power.