Senate Republicans puncture House GOP dreams for impeachment trial

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Senate Republicans puncture House GOP dreams for impeachment trial
GOP leaders have no interest in turning the Senate into a circus with the hard-line demands of Trump's House allies.
By MELANIE ZANONA and BURGESS EVERETT
12/05/2019 07:14 PM EST


On Wednesday, a conservative backbencher in the House issued an explosive request to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham: Subpoena the phone records of House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.

On Thursday, Graham had a succinct response: “We’re not going to do that.”

The demand from Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) reflects House Republicans’ eagerness to see Democrats squirm once impeachment moves to the GOP-controlled Senate and out of the “sham” process they’ve derided in the House.

“I’m talking to my Senate colleagues: here are the witnesses you should call and here are the questions you should ask,” said Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah). “It’s going to cast us in a different very light. This is a chance to tell the other side of the story.”

President Donald Trump has joined in as well, tweeting on Thursday that he wants to call Schiff, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Bidens as witnesses in his impeachment trial.

But Senate Republicans are beginning to deliver a reality check to the president and House Republicans that there are limits to what they can do.

“You got two different bodies here,” Graham, a stalwart Trump ally, told reporters on Thursday. “Are we going to start calling House members over here when we don’t like what they say or do? I don’t think so.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/05/senate-republicans-impeachment-trial-076673

[lagomorph777]

1. Something has spooked Leningrad Lindsey.

Looking forward to learning exactly what that is.

[C_U_L8R]

2. What idiots.

Do they even know how dumb they are???
The stuff they think up is absurd. Ridiculous. Idiotic. Dopey.

[bitterross]

3. Clearly, they flunked Civics

There really should be a course on the Constitution which is taught to all incoming Congress members. It's clear that many, many of them have no idea how it works.