Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is calling for a full Senate trial against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which she emphasized during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear to Breitbart News on Friday that if House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry into Democrat President Joe Biden, the move would come not as an announcement from him or anyone else, but from a formal vote on the floor of the House.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told Republican colleagues in a letter that he will vote to acquit former President Donald Trump, Politico reported Saturday morning.
A solid majority of U.S. voters believe it is unlikely the Senate will convict former President Donald Trump, a Rasmussen Reports survey released on the first day of the impeachment trial revealed.
The first day of the Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump begins Tuesday afternoon as Democrats hope to build an emotional case tying the former president directly to the January 6 Capitol riot. The end goal, as they have said, is a conviction in the Senate and permanent disqualification from ever running for office again.
A majority of Americans want to see the Senate convict former President Donald Trump, a CBS News/YouGov survey released Tuesday found.
The Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to acquit President Donald John Trump on both of the two articles of impeachment.
Fact Check – CLAIM: Romney said the White House argued a statutory violation was needed for impeachment. VERDICT: FALSE.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) leaked advance news of his vote to convict President Donald Trump on one of two articles of impeachment to McKay Coppins, the same reporter who mocked Romney during his run for president in 2012.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) closed his side’s argument for the removal of President Donald Trump with a rambling rhetorical assault on the president.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) defended his staff during closing arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Monday.
CLAIM: “Professor Dershowitz, and the other counselors to the president, have argued that if the president thinks that something is in his interest, then it is, by definition, in the interest of the American people.”
VERDICT: False.
“Elizabeth Warren helped defeat the impeachment of the President of the United States,” Cruz declared Friday evening on his podcast.
The Senate has enough votes to block new witnesses in the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.
White House lawyer Jay Sekulow told the Senate on Friday that if it decided to subpoena new witnesses, the president’s legal team would demand the right to call every one of the witnesses that appeared in the House.
Fact check – CLAIM: Michael Duffey, a political appointee, “seized responsibility for withholding the [Ukraine] aid.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE.
House impeachment managers reiterated an offer to the Senate on Friday that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) first made the night before: allow one week for witnesses to appear for depositions, and for review of documents.
By unilaterally refusing to allow valid questions like this one, John Roberts is rigging the trial against Trump.
If Chief Justice Roberts votes for witnesses, he would have to recuse himself, leaving the Supreme Court deadlocked, and the final decision with Judge Merrick Garland.
After two marathon question-and-answer sessions, it became clear that the Democrats’ case against President Trump is essentially based on five misquotes.
The second day of the question-and-answer session in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial was held Thursday. Here is a recap.
Fact check – CLAIM: Trump told Sondland that “Zelensky has to announce these investigations.” FALSE. Adam Schiff relied on third-hand testimony contradicted by Sondland himself.
House impeachment manager Hakeem Jeffries told the Senate the “Steele dossier” was not improper foreign interference in the 2016 election because Democrats “purchased” it.
Fact check – CLAIM: The White House believes that it’s OK to take information from a foreign country in an election. VERDICT: FALSE.
Fact check – CLAIM: Alan Dershowitz and the White House lawyers believe that any action a president claims is in the public interest is unimpeachable. VERDICT: FALSE. Dershowitz specifically said crime-like actions are impeachable.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) opened Thursday’s impeachment trial proceedings with one of the first submitted questions for the record, but Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read the question to the Democrat impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s counsel.
Chief Justice John Roberts refused Thursday afternoon to read a written question submitted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin pointed out Wednesday in the question-and-answer session in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate that the Washington Post had written a lengthy article about former Vice President Joe Biden’s conflict of interest in Ukraine on July 22, 2019 — three days before Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when he raised the issue.
Adam Schiff told the Senate it could not have witnesses and documents relating to the whistleblower or the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
Senators participated Wednesday in the first of two days of questions and answers in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to convince the Senate on Wednesday that it had to subpoena more witnesses and documents because it could not simply “rely on what was investigated in the House.”
Adam Schiff (D-CA) told the Senate that the White House lawyers were afraid that Chief Justice John Roberts would be fair.
House impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) repeatedly told the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday night that the House case was “proven beyond any doubt at all.”
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin told the Senate that an ordinary court would declare a mistrial and throw out the case against President Donald Trump, after lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made up charges that were not in the articles of impeachment.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded that the Senate subpoena additional witnesses and documents Wednesday — after declaring that he would not reveal the “whistleblower.”
Adam Schiff had defended then-President Barack Obama’s administration investigating then-opposition candidate Donald Trump.
A vote for new witnesses, after Democrats rejected every Republican request for new witnesses in the House, would legitimize an unprecedented abuse of power, and guarantee that Kavanaugh 2.0 would not be the last.
Veteran Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that she could vote for President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, after White House lawyers concluded opening arguments Tuesday.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone concluded opening arguments in the president’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday afternoon by playing video clips of Democrats arguing against President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin told the Senate on Tuesday that Democrats’ claims of a “cover up” of the Ukraine call and the “whistleblower” complaint were incorrect, both factually and legally.
