Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected on Tuesday Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s suggestion that the Senate agree to call certain witnesses as part of their resolution detailing the parameters of the impending impeachment trial.
Schumer released his suggestion to the press before sending it to McConnell.
“It is not the Senate's job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to 'guilty,'” McConnell said. The Majority Leader said Schumer’s proposal would set a “nightmarish precedent” for future impeachment trials.
“The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it," McConnell continued.
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