Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk on behalf of myself, Senators Risch, Blunt, Kennedy, Johnson, and Capito for the President's counsel. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Sullivan and the other Senators for counsel for the President: Given that the Senate is now considering the very evidentiary record assembled and voted on by the House, which Chairman Nadler has repeatedly claimed constitutes overwhelming evidence for impeachment, how can the Senate be accused of engaging in, what Mr. Nadler described as ``a coverup,'' if the Senate makes its decision based on the exact same evidentiary record the House did? Mr. Counsel PHILBIN. Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, thank you for that question. I think that is exactly right. I think it is rather preposterous to suggest that this Senate would be engaging in a coverup to rely on the same record that the House managers have said is overwhelming. They have said it dozens of times. They have said that, in their view, they have had enough evidence presented already to establish their case beyond any doubt, not just beyond a reasonable doubt. And it is totally incoherent to claim at the same time that it would be improper for the Senate to rely on that record. Your judgment may be and should be, we submit, different from the House managers' assessment of that evidence because it hasn't established their case at all.…”