Senate Dems ask that Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton testify at impeachment trial
Source: Politico
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that drives a hard bargain on witnesses and documents.
By BURGESS EVERETT
12/15/2019 07:00 PM EST
Chuck Schumer has made his opening offer to Mitch McConnell about the impending Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. And the Democratic leader is driving a hard bargain.
In a letter sent on Sunday evening to McConnell, the majority leader, Schumer says Senate Democrats want to hear testimony from four administration witnesses, including acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton. There is almost no chance Senate Republicans would vote to subpoena those witnesses without assent from the White House and calling their own preferred witnesses.
Schumer also proposes that the trial process begin on Jan. 6, with the trial itself starting on Jan. 9 , and asks for a structure similar to the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999. The House is set to impeach Trump this week, turning the focus of the nation to a polarized Senate, where bipartisan cooperation has been relegated to little other than defense and spending bills.
“The trial must be one that not only hears all of the evidence and adjudicates the case fairly; it must also pass the fairness test with the American people,” Schumer says in the letter to McConnell. “That is the great challenge for the Senate in the coming weeks.”
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SMFH,
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