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To: tet68

The managers only present the impeachment to the Senate.
There is no prosecution, this is a legislative not a judicial process.
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31 posted on 12/20/2019 3:03:14 PM PST by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb
-- The managers only present the impeachment to the Senate. --

Nope. They prosecute the case. This is the House role in the trial. The senate makes the rules for the trial, but the trial can't happen if the house doesn't prosecute its impeachment case. The senate doesn;t "make the charge," it hears it, and it has to hear it from the house. And hear more than the conclusion, which is what the articles are. The house has to argue the case, and that is what the managers are charged with doing.

Manager's role in Clinton impeachment trial

Resolved, That Mr. Hyde of Illinois, Mr. Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Mr. McCollum of Florida, Mr. Gekas of Pennsylvania, Mr. Canady of Florida, Mr. Buyer of Indiana, Mr. Bryant of Tennessee, Mr. Chabot of Ohio, Mr. Barr of Georgia, Mr. Hutchinson of Arkansas, Mr. Cannon of Utah, Mr. Rogan of California, and Mr. Graham of South Carolina are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment trial against William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, that a message be sent to the Senate to inform the Senate of these appointments, and that the managers so appointed may, in connection with the preparation and the conduct of the trial, exhibit the articles of impeachment to the Senate and take all other actions necessary, which may include the following:

(1) Employing legal, clerical, and other necessary assistants and incurring such other expenses as may be necessary, to be paid from amounts available to the Committee on the Judiciary under applicable expense resolutions or from the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives.

(2) Sending for persons and papers, and filing with the Secretary of the Senate, on the part of the House of Representatives, any pleadings, in conjunction with or subsequent to, the exhibition of the articles of impeachment that the managers consider necessary.

The senate doesn't argue the case to itself. It hears arguments and facts from both sides, to the extent it finds necessary to reach the right conclusion, then reaches its conclusion.

46 posted on 12/20/2019 3:21:10 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: gandalftb

The managers only present the impeachment to the Senate.

They then act as prosecutors?

This whole hoax is a load of malarkey,
and it’s being flummoxed by the perpetrators.


95 posted on 12/20/2019 4:57:52 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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