History of Impeachment Forecasts Trump Senate Trial
WASHINGTON (CN) — Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill last month filed into a room where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rolled tape from the Clinton impeachment trial, like a coach prepping his players for the big game.
The rundown ahead of the House vote to impeach President Donald Trump gave the Democrats a look at what to expect Thursday after Chief Justice John Roberts swears in senators to serve as jurors in the third Senate impeachment trial in U.S. history.
The rules of play in some ways match what senior members of Congress saw unfold back in 1999 in the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. Closed-door proceedings with Roberts presiding as judge, opening and closing statements, all leading up to a final vote on whether to remove Trump from office.
Senators turned jurors are prohibited over the coming weeks from using their phones in the chamber. Reading material is likewise restricted to only documents in the case arising from the House investigation into a campaign led by Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to pressure Ukrainian officials to gin up a political investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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