McConnell, Schumer start the year deadlocked over Senate impeachment trial

If and when that happens, he said, “We’ll have to decide whether we’re going to safeguard core governing traditions or let short-term partisan rage overcome them.” He accused Democrats of conducting the impeachment inquiry in a manner that"has jeopardized the foundations of our system of government.

Speaking on the floor after McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that his GOP counterpart had engaged in a lot of “finger-pointing” and “name-calling” without weighing on the question he said was holding up the Senate trial: “Whether there will be witnesses and documents.” “He has no good argument against having witnesses and documents, so he resorts to these subterfuges,” Schumer said. “Instead of trying to find the truth, he is still using the same feeble talking points that he was using last December.”

Schumer said that there is only one precedent that matters: “There has never, never in the history of the country been an impeachment trial of the president in which the Senate was denied the ability to hear from witnesses.

He's giving the White House a week to come up with a convincing story

Well what can we expect from one of many republicans who support a racist bigot and Russians supporters especially Moscow Mitch McConnell

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What trial? Has the House presented it 'case' to the Senate yet? Last I saw the articles of impeachment were void of any actual crime from our US Code. Motion to dismiss.

Don’t handover the articles to them. Don’t

McConnell is a cancer to be sure. But even the Devil can’t believe what a shit show Trump is💡

Apparently the impeachment process is over.

Deadlocked they are going to throw it out FakeNews

There he is folks (and history recorders) the singular most threat to American Democracy as White folks have known and enjoyed it lo these many centuries. HadANiceRun MoneyPowerAndJudgesTrumpPatriotism HeSaidTrump ManBehindTheCurtain PowerBehindTheThrone Wormtongue

Yeah, deadlocked. 'We demand a constitutionally-mandated fair trial!' 'Yeah, I don't think that works for our side so....nah.'

Liars. There is no deadlock. Cry baby Chucky just won't get his way. He can thank the House for it

Where are the articles and which party has the majority in the Senate. 🤔

But I was told there is nothing to do in the Senate because Nancy Pelosi is holding back the Articles to give Trump more room to attack Iran?

Schumer: 'The president does not have the authority for a war with Iran. If he plans a large increase in troops and potential hostility over a longer time, the administration will require congressional approval—and the approval of the American people.'

Democrats and obama = Iran 🇮🇷

Trials should have witnesses!

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