McConnell to move ahead on Senate trial rules without Democrats
Posted on AllSides January 7th, 2020
From The Left
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that he'll move ahead on approving rules for President Trump's Senate trial without negotiating them with Democrats.
Between the lines: Senate Republicans' comments on Tuesday suggested that they've fallen in line with McConnell's position that the rules should be based on Bill Clinton's 1999 Senate trial, where the question of whether to call witnesses was postponed until after the start of the trial.
Many of these senators have said they're comfortable following the precedent of the Clinton trial, in which senators first gave...