Pelosi has held up delivering to the Senate the articles of impeachment adopted by the House, saying she wants to see a ‘fair’ process for the trial
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are locked in a stare-down over the terms of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which carries political risks for both sides if it continues deeper into January.
“Neither Senator McConnell, nor any Republican senator, has articulated a single good reason why the trial shouldn’t have these witnesses or these documents,” Schumer said at a news conference Monday in New York. Raising the fairness question also gives Schumer and other Democrats a pressure point on a few GOP incumbents facing tough re-election campaigns, such as Maine Senator Susan Collins, and Republican senators like Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska who’ve occasionally shown willingness to break with both McConnell and Trump.Murkowski and Collins in the past week have chided McConnell for saying he’s consulting with the White House on the trial.
McConnell and other Trump allies in the Senate instead have been maneuvering for a quick trial that is all but certain to result in the president’s acquittal. “This new story shows all four witnesses we Senate Democrats have requested — Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton, Michael Duffey, and Robert Blair — were intimately involved and had direct knowledge of President Trump’s decision to cut off aid in order to benefit himself,” Schumer said. “Simply put: in our fight to have key documents and witnesses in a Senate impeachment trial, these new revelations are a game changer.
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