Sen. Collins’s Focused Approach Could Help Alter Impeachment Trial

Sen. Susan Collins has filled a 50-page legal pad with notes about President Trump’s impeachment trial, a focused approach that could play a role in whether the Senate votes to allow witnesses including John Bolton

WASHINGTON—From her second-row seat in the Senate chamber, Sen. Susan Collins has filled a 50-page legal pad with notes about the impeachment trial and has started marking up another ahead of a critical stage that will determine whether the proceedings continue—or come to an quick end.

“Check this,” the Maine Republican wrote in the margins when the Democrats’ lead House manager, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, said—accurately—that President Trump had never asserted executive privilege over evidence, but instead directed officials...

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