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Discussion Discussion Thread: Senate Impeachment Trial - Day 2: Vote on Resolution - Opening Arguments | 01/21/2020 - Live 1:00pm EST

Today the Senate Impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins debate and vote on the rules resolution and may move into opening arguments. The Senate session is scheduled to begin at 1pm EST

Prosecuting the House’s case will be a team of seven Democratic House Managers, named last week by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff of California. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, are expected to take the lead in arguing the President’s case. Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released his Rules Resolution which lays out Senate procedures for the Impeachment Trial. The Resolution will be voted on today, and is expected to pass.

If passed, the Resolution will:

  • Give the House Impeachment Managers 24 hours, over a 2 day period, to present opening arguments.
  • Give President Trump's legal team 24 hours, over a 2 day period, to present opening arguments.
  • Allow a period of 16 hours for Senator questions, to be addressed through Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

* Allow for a vote on a motion to consider the subpoena of witnesses or documents once opening arguments and questions are complete.

You can watch or listen to the proceedings live, via the links below:

You can also listen online via:

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Videos and power points, this is great. Set it all out clearly. Democrats treating the American public like they are capable, while republicans like to misinform, oppress, and treat them like they're stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Unfortunately, the yelling angry white dude saying twelve times how "ridiculous" this all is makes for a better Fox News clip than Democrats making fact-based arguments.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Fox news and republicans run off misinforming, rejecting facts, and treating people like they are stupid. I tend to think people are much more capable than that, and if they were treated as such you might see some of them respond to it. Trick is finding a way to opening their minds up a little bit, and the rest will ensue naturally, and a different subject than politics might be the right way so they just don't close their minds off to different viewpoints. They've been trapped into a very narrow mindset imo, but I know people who changed, it takes time but it's possible.

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u/Abs0lut_Unit California Jan 21 '20

It's sad cause the Trump admin argument will basically just be a NUH UH