BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader McConnell Lays Out Ground Rules for Trump's Impeachment Trial

Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2020 | Beth Baumann

[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:

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[Bob Ireland]

Ping

[ncalburt]

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

[nicksaunt]

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

[gunsequalfreedom]

Shhhh!

[CedarDave]

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.

[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

[Woodman]

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.

[Delta 21]

HA!

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

Sic ‘em!

[SunkenCiv]

The D caucus in the Senate has the hard stuff in stock for their House cadre, er, comrad, er, colleagues.

[TigersEye]

It’s there from line 5 to line 19.

[SunkenCiv]

• BREAKING: Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe, Mark Meadows, Debbie Lesko, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin and Doug Collins Join President Trump’s Legal Team

[Dave W]

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

[Dave W]

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.

[catnipman]

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

they already are ...bitterly!

[catnipman]

“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 ...

[hal ogen]

25 years of pathetic entertainment...LOL.

[hal ogen]

25 years of pathetic entertainment...LOL.

[ptsal]

Command+plus key APPLE

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

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

[Does so]

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