Political Quotes

“the President of the United States is charged with committing a grave injury to our democracy: trying to shake down a foreign leader to get him to interfere in our elections, using the powers of his public office to benefit himself and jaundice our elections. These are the kinds of actions the Framers of our Constitution most feared when they forged the impeachment powers of the Congress. The House of Representatives decided the President's conduct warranted his impeachment. The Senate's constitutional duty now is to try that case to the best of our ability with honesty, with integrity, with impartially, and with fairness. A fair trial is one that considers all the facts and gives the Senators all the information they need to make an informed decision. That means relevant witnesses. That means relevant documents. That means the truth. Without these things, a Senate trial would become a farce, a nationally televised meeting of the mock trial club. There is a reason that, with one exception, every impeachment trial of any official in the history of the United States has featured witnesses. That one exception was the trial of a fellow Senator in the 18th century, and the question of his impeachment was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds before the issue of witnesses could ever come up. Every other trial has had witnesses. So when Leader McConnell talks precedent, he is talking about witnesses, plain and simple.…”