Senate Impeachment Trial Begins with Fight Over Rules
Doug Mills/The New York Times
We ran the numbers: There are 4690 news articles covering this topic. 56% (2620) are left leaning, 32% (1497) center, 12% (573) right leaning.
After a day of arguing between House managers calling for impeachment and President Trump’s defense team declaring the articles of impeachment “ridiculous,” the Senate adopted a set of rules to govern the impeachment trial. While left-leaning articles highlight that Republicans continue to block subpoenas for new evidence, right-leaning articles emphasize that Romney plans to keep an “open mind” as an impeachment juror.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times emphasizes that Republicans made last-minute changes to their proposed rules. Over a span of 12 hours of debate, Senate Republicans turned back every attempt by Democrats to subpoena documents from the White House and other agencies, as well as testimony from White House officials. Furthermore, Republicans rejected 10 other amendments by a 53-47 margin.
A centrist article by NPR reports that the resolution put forward by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls for each side to receive up to 24 hours to argue their case, spread over three days. The measure was approved on a 53-47 party-line vote. While McConnell called the resolution a “fair road map,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the rules “completely partisan.”
The New York Post published a right-leaning article emphasizing that Sen. Mitt Romney says he’s keeping “an open mind” as he begins his tenure as an impeachment juror. Romney called the allegations outlined in the House-approved impeachment articles “extremely serious,” adding that these assertions demand that senators “put political biases aside.”
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Mitt Romney pledges to have ‘open mind’ during Trump impeachment trial
Washington Times