I assume the impeachment trial in the Senate ends before Thanksgiving. You're dreaming! If we are lucky
- Shifty will be done with his show-and-tell by Thanksgiving.
- Then, he will forward his findings to Nadler, who will incorporate them into formal Articles of Impeachment,
- which will be voted on by the Judiciary Committee.
- Which will then send them to the House floor,
- where their will be several days of debate and then a vote which will
- THEN result in them going to the Senate.
- Once in the Senate the first order of busienss will be bringing the Chief Justice over to swear everyone in, then
- pass the rules to be used by the Senate in conducting the trial.
- Then the prosecution (Shifty et.al) will present their case (which will take days) and
- then Team Trump (his lawyers) will work to rebut it.
- Then the jury (the Senators) will have time to ask questions.
- This all assumes that the Senate calls no witnesses. That's probably a false assumption though.
The trial of William J. Clinton took 1 month in the Senate, but everyone knew it was predestined to fail. No witnesses were called, no cross-examinations took place. A few excerpts of video taped depositions were put into evidence.
What we are getting ready for is a contested impeachment in the Senate. The "hurry up and get it done" version took a month. A contested version could take several months.