McConnell Plans Releases Impeachment Resolution and White House Responds to Upcoming Trial
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On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released his resolution setting the initial parameters for how the impeachment trial will play out. Democrats slammed the four-page resolution, while the White House offered a fiery legal response to the articles of impeachment.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times reports that Democrats continue to intensify their demands for more testimony and documents that could add to the “already voluminous evidence” against President Trump and bolster the Democrats’ case by shedding new light on several key questions. Another left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that constitutional scholars widely dispute the argument provided by Trump’s lawyers that it doesn’t matter if Trump abused his powers in an attempt to bully Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election because the House never accused him of committing an ordinary crime.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that Democrats say McConnell’s four-page resolution puts time limits on arguments and departs heavily from President Clinton’s impeachment trial of 1999. Another centrist article by NPR reports that in an executive summary of a 110 page legal brief, President Trump’s legal team accused House Democrats of “focus-group testing various charges for weeks” and sum up the impeachment as a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution that the Senate should swiftly and roundly condemn.”
A right-leaning article by The Washington Examiner reports that McConnell’s resolution sets a fast pace for Trump’s impeachment trial by allowing 24 hours each across two days for Trump’s White House defense team and House impeachment managers to present their cases. Fox News also published a right-leaning article reporting that in a series of tweets on Monday, President Trump blasted congressional Democrats for “zero fairness” in their bid to impeach him just hours after Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed to “force votes on witnesses and documents” in the impeachment trial.