Senate leadership announced Monday that they have reached an agreement on the framework of the ancients President Trump
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“For information from the Senate, the Republican leader and I, in consultation with House officials and former President Trump’s attorneys, have agreed on a bipartisan resolution to govern the structure and timing of the impending trial,” he said. the leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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“All parties have agreed on a structure that will ensure a fair and honest trial for the removal of the Senate against the former president,” Schumer said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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“I am pleased that the leader and Schumer have been able to reach an agreement on a fair trial and an estimated timetable for the next trial in the Senate,” McConnell said. “It will give senators as jurors enough time to receive the case and the arguments.”
Schumer’s announcement comes after a press conference in New York revealed that they were finalizing a deal.
The timeline would allow the process to end next week, if both parties agree not to call witnesses.
Under the agreement, the Senate will debate and vote on Tuesday on whether the process is constitutional. The effort to declare the trial unconstitutional will come soon after Rand Paul
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Initial arguments will begin Wednesday. Under the agreement, prosecution managers in the House and Trump’s team will have 16 hours for two days each to present their case to the Senate.
It’s a faster pace than the Clinton trial and Trump’s first, where both sides had 24 hours.
The agreement also leaves the door open to the call of witnesses. Chamber prosecution managers previously invited Trump to testify under oath, an offer his lawyers rejected. They have not yet said whether they will try to get the Senate to call other witnesses.
The trial will also stop on Saturday to accommodate one of Trump’s lawyers’ request to observe Jewish Saturday.
If both parties use all their time, this would establish initial arguments to end on Sunday.
After that, the Senate is expected to have time to ask questions to both parties, as well as possible deliberations. In previous proceedings, senators have had two days to conduct the question and answer session. Under the resolution of the trial rules, senators will have four hours to ask questions.
Both parties will have two hours to close the arguments.
“As in previous trials, there will be equal time for senators’ questions and to close arguments and an opportunity for the Senate to hold deliberations if it so decides and then we will vote on the article on the removal, ”Schumer said.
The trial comes almost five weeks after the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
While Republicans smoked after Trump urged his supporters to march on the Capitol while lawmakers counted the Electoral College result, Democrats are not expected to be able to get the 17 Republican votes needed to condemn Trump.