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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClaire McCaskill reporting current plan is that there will NOT be witnesses on the Senate floor.
Congresswoman Herrera Beutler would be deposed, and the transcript would be entered into the Court record.
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Claire McCaskill reporting current plan is that there will NOT be witnesses on the Senate floor. (Original Post)
brooklynite
Feb 2021
OP
That's actually not a bad development. It prevents the Trump "lawyers"
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2021
#4
This is what the Senators are working out. Not the House Managers or Defense Lawyers
brooklynite
Feb 2021
#3
I was posting about this at the same time, and included a tweet from an ABC reporter who's also
highplainsdem
Feb 2021
#6
Karadeniz
(22,557 posts)1. No!!!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)4. That's actually not a bad development. It prevents the Trump "lawyers"
from turning the testimony into a circus with performatively hostile cross-examination for the sole benefit of one single tv viewer.
Zoonart
(11,875 posts)2. I thought Raskin mentioned ZOOM?
brooklynite
(94,679 posts)3. This is what the Senators are working out. Not the House Managers or Defense Lawyers
Zoonart
(11,875 posts)5. Got it.
Thanks.
highplainsdem
(49,022 posts)6. I was posting about this at the same time, and included a tweet from an ABC reporter who's also
hearing there won't be witnesses.
McCaskill is saying the GOP Senators are willing to let the GOP Congresswoman's reported remarks be inclluded in the record.
I hope this is wrong. It seems like a way for the GOP to sweep this bombshell news under the rug as fast as possible.