Political Quotes

“Mr. President, constitutional experts will be debating President Trump's misconduct for generations to come, but I think they will reach consensus as to the misconduct of the Senate in the Trump impeachment. This is the first time in the history of impeachment that no witnesses and documents were allowed to be called by the U.S. Senate. It violates the Constitution in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump by its failure to hold a constitutionally fair trial. At one time, I had the opportunity to present as a House manager an impeachment case here in the U.S. Senate on a district court judge by the name of Nixon. I remember, when I appeared before the Senate, I was cautioned immediately, even though Judge Nixon had been convicted of a bribery type of an offense in a criminal court, that it was incumbent for us to present the witnesses and documents in the U.S. Senate and that the Senate would conduct its own record in regard to the proceedings. Yet, here, we are not having witnesses in the President's impeachment trial. We had some help from the Supreme Court on this. In Nixon v. United States, 1993, pertaining to Judge Nixon's trial, Justice Byron White had a concurring opinion. Justice White said that the term ``try,'' as used in article I, section 3, clause 6, meant that the Senate should conduct a proceeding in a manner that a reasonable judge would deem a trial. We failed to conduct a constitutionally fair trial here in the U.S.…”