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Andrew McCarthy: In Trump impeachment trial, Senate right to block new witness testimony
OPINION - By Andrew McCarthy | Fox News
Senate plots path for impeachment trial after witness vote fails
Senators reject motion calling for witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill.
The Senate was right to vote Friday against hearing new witness testimony at President Trump’s impeachment trial. The Democrats’ demand for new witnesses at the trial was a red herring – a talking point that had some surface appeal but, upon scrutiny, was nonsense.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and the other impeachment managers claim that there have been no witnesses in the trial. They said before the Senate voted 51-49 Friday to block more witnesses that if Republicans did note vote to approve subpoenas for former National Security Adviser John Bolton, among other top current and former administration officials, that the trial will be a “sham” – an exercise in “cover-up.” You can’t have a real trial, was their refrain, unless witnesses are called.
It is nonsense. There have been plenty of witnesses. Schiff’s problem is that the additional witnesses he wanted to call would not change what has already been proved in any meaningful way.
GOP BLOCKS WITNESSES IN SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, AS FINAL VOTE COULD DRAG TO NEXT WEEK
Obviously, what’s happening in the Senate is not a trial in any familiar sense. We are used to judicial trials. Impeachment presents something completely different, a Senate trial. The Senate is a political body, not a law court.
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