McConnell backs off, abruptly eases impeachment trial limits
I'm tired of the republicans always letting up, rigid usually with the rules and don't barely play the amount of games doing their jobs as the left does. Not even close. Look at this whole process, and the behavior of quite a many on the left. Literally obsessed with this and seemingly not doing jack shit otherwise.
The republicans, at times, should meet fire with fire. But nope.
The dems literally play games and break the rules in the house. Some complaints but ultimately no rules or rights restored. The republicans wanted certain witnesses and they were outright denied. They were supposed to have their own day for testimony and what not, and were denied that right. NOW, with even the breath of not calling certain witnesses, the left is crying foul. The republicans want to call Biden and son & that too they bitched and moaned about. Unfortunately for them, they aren't in charge this time. But those with the majority, too many of them anyway, don't seem to have much of a backbone.
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McConnell backs off, abruptly eases impeachment trial limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly backed off some of his proposed rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Tuesday, easing plans for a tight two-day schedule and agreeing that House evidence will be included. He acted after protests from senators, including fellow Republicans.
The trial quickly burst into a partisan fight at the Capitol as the president's lawyers opened arguments in support of McConnell's plan. Democrats objected loudly to his initial rules, and some Republicans then made their concerns known in private at a GOP lunch.
Without comment, the Republican leader submitted an amended proposal after meeting behind closed doors with his senators as the trial opened. The handwritten changes would add an extra day for each side's opening arguments and stipulate that evidence from the Democratic House's impeachment hearings be included in the record.
There is still deep disagreement about calling additional witnesses.
“It’s time to start with this trial,” said White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the president's lead lawyer in brief remarks as the proceedings opened in public.
Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled open the session, senators having taken an oath last week to do “impartial justice" as jurors. House prosecutors were on one side, Trump's team on the other, in the well of the Senate, as senators sat silent at their desks, no cellphones or other electronics allowed.
Senators were stunned by McConnell's shift, which came during the private lunch and briefly delayed the start of the historic session.
A spokeswoman for Republican Sen. Susan Collins said that she and others had raised concerns. The Maine senator sees the changes as significant improvements, said spokeswoman Annie Clark.
Collins, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and a substantial number of other Republicans from across the party's ideological spectrum wanted to make the changes, according to two people familiar with the matter but unauthorized to discuss it in public. Some argued that the two-day limitation would have helped Democrats cast Republicans as squeezing testimony through in the dead of night.
The turnaround was a swift lesson as White House's wishes run into the reality of the Senate. The White House wanted a session crammed into a shorter period to both expedite the trial and shift more of the proceedings into late night, according to a person familiar with the matter but unauthorized to discuss it in public.
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