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Baked Potato

(7,733 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2019, 02:57 PM Dec 2019

The article below details step-by-step in layman’s terms what the upcoming trial in the Senate would look like under the current rules.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/imagining-senate-trial-reading-senate-rules-impeachment-litigation

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The detailed rules of procedure for impeachment, in legalese.

RULES OF PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE IN THE SENATE WHEN SITTING ON IMPEACH- MENT TRIALS
[Revised pursuant to S. Res. 479, 99–2, Aug. 16, 1986]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SMAN-113/pdf/SMAN-113-pg223.pdf

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Below, the entire detailed document which changed and set the rules, with historical notes. A long read.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-99sdoc33/html/CDOC-99sdoc33.htm

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The Senate Impeachment trial will all come down to the Rules (Original Post) Baked Potato Dec 2019 OP

(14,118 posts)

1. Rules? There are rules? Why weren't tRUMP and the reTHUGS paying attention to following

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 05:51 PM

Dec 2019

the rules that would have prevented the necessity of implementing impeachment in the first place?