Chief Justice Roberts Scolds Both Sides in Impeachment Trial
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial enters its second day Wednesday, with more political moves likely before the House managers can begin to present their case to the Senate.
Trump said Wednesday that the Senate must decide whether it will hear witnesses in his impeachment trial.
“I’ll leave that to the Senate. The Senate’s going to have to answer that,” he said at a news conference to close his visit to the World Economic Forum annual conference in Davos, Switzerland.
The president has vacillated on whether he supports the Senate taking testimony from people who refused to participate in the House’s impeachment inquiry. He said earlier this month that he would invoke executive privilege to prevent top administration officials such as former National Security Advisor John Bolton from testifying in order to establish precedent and protect future presidents.
“I’m going to head back and I’ll be watching it,” he said of the trial. “But it’s really going to be up to the Senate.”
A day after the Senate adopted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s rules for the trial, House managers and Trump’s lawyers could engage Wednesday in more political maneuvering.
It’s uncertain whether the White House plans to seek a Senate vote on a motion to dismiss the case, which Trump says he wants but Republicans have said has very little support, even among their members.
After the procedural skirmishing is completed, House managers would begin presenting their case against the president either Wednesday or Thursday. They will be given 24 hours over three days, followed by the same amount of time for Trump’s lawyers to offer their defense.
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