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Trent Lott: “This is certainly a humbling experience for a smalltown lawyer. I learned to love and to respect the law trying cases in…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 1999
This is certainly a humbling experience for a smalltown lawyer. I learned to love and to respect the law trying cases in the courtrooms of rural Arkansas. The scene is different in this setting, in this historic Chamber with the Chief Justice presiding and Senators sitting as jurors. But what is at stake remains the same. In every case heard in every courtroom across this great country, it is the truth, it is justice, it is the law that are at stake. In this journey on Earth, there is nothing of greater consequence for us to devote our energies than to search for the truth, to pursue equal justice and to uphold the law. It is for those reasons that I serve as a manager.
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Trent Lott

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Manager Asa Hutchinson addresses the Senate during the impeachment trial proceedings.

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