The trial will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The House will have two days to make their case for impeachment but their time allotment cannot exceed 24 hours. After that, Trump’s legal team will be given two days to make their case and again, that cannot exceed a 24 hour time period.
Once the president’s team finishes their presentation, senators can ask questions but they are limited to a 16-hour time frame. There will then be a 4-hour argument split between the House and Trump’s team. Deliberation will follow. At that time the Senate will decide whether or not to subpoena witnesses or documents.
The rules also state that the evidence presented in the House is not part of the Senate record so all that is being argued for the first 48 hours is the Articles of Impeachment. Expect all manner of lies, misrepresentations, and slander from shitstains like Schiff and Nadler.
I hope that the Senate will move to dismiss Article II (Obstruction of Congress) immediately after the argument period to include a resolution rebuking the House. Even viewed through a non-partisan lens, that argument goes like this:
Congress and the Executive are co-equal branches of the Government.
The House has a constitutional duty of oversight with respect to the Executive branch, including the right to obtain information by subpoena.
The Executive branch has a legal right to resist a subpoena by asserting executive privilege and other legal defenses.
The House impeached, and seeks removal of, the President for resisting various House requests for information, including by subpoena.
When a dispute arises between Congress and the Executive with regard to the latter's refusal to provide information requested by Congress the matter is properly put before the third co-equal branch of Government - the Judiciary.
The second Article of Impeachment impeaches the President for resisting requests by the House to obtain information, yet the House declined to pursue enforcement of their own rights before the Judiciary.
the Senate is not constitutionally tasked with performing work that properly belongs to the House.
Eat a big bag of dicks Nancy you sordid cheese eating shit weasel.
Agreed.
The procedure is also sort of odd.
The rules also state that the evidence presented in the House is not part of the Senate record so all that is being argued for the first 48 hours is the Articles of Impeachment. Expect all manner of lies, misrepresentations, and slander from shitstains like Schiff and Nadler.
I hope that the Senate will move to dismiss Article II (Obstruction of Congress) immediately after the argument period to include a resolution rebuking the House. Even viewed through a non-partisan lens, that argument goes like this:
Congress and the Executive are co-equal branches of the Government.
The House has a constitutional duty of oversight with respect to the Executive branch, including the right to obtain information by subpoena.
The Executive branch has a legal right to resist a subpoena by asserting executive privilege and other legal defenses.
The House impeached, and seeks removal of, the President for resisting various House requests for information, including by subpoena.
When a dispute arises between Congress and the Executive with regard to the latter's refusal to provide information requested by Congress the matter is properly put before the third co-equal branch of Government - the Judiciary.
The second Article of Impeachment impeaches the President for resisting requests by the House to obtain information, yet the House declined to pursue enforcement of their own rights before the Judiciary.
the Senate is not constitutionally tasked with performing work that properly belongs to the House.
Eat a big bag of dicks Nancy you sordid cheese eating shit weasel.