Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University and the lone Republican witness, argued that the House is rushing to impeach Trump for something that for which there is no “compelling evidence of the commission of a crime.” University of North Carolina law professor Michael Gerhardt called Trump’s “misconduct,” including his attempt to have Ukraine investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, “worse than the misconduct of any prior president.” Harvard’s Noah Feldman and Stanford’s Pamela Karlan, both law professors, said there’s little doubt that Trump’s conduct rises to the level of impeachment. In their opening remarks, the three witnesses called by Democrats pulled no punches. The 41-member committee will hear from four legal scholars, three of whom were called by Democrats and one by Republicans. With the work of the House Intelligence Committee complete, the impeachment inquiry into President Trump moves to the Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
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21 and could last up to five weeks, or roughly as long as the 1999 impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton.Constitutional scholars prepare to testify in the impeachment inquiry. With Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts presiding, the Senate trial gets underway in earnest on Jan.
McConnell prevailed by insisting that the question of witnesses would be put off until after the House managers presented their case against Trump and the president’s lawyers offered their defense. 15 amid a disagreement between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Repubilcan, over whether witnesses would be allowed to testify during the trial. But their transmission to the Senate was delayed until Jan. The two articles of impeachment approved by the House in December accuse Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump dismissed the investigation as a “hoax” and “witch hunt” and insisted there was nothing improper about his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or his subsequent action. Although Trump ordered his administration not to cooperate with the investigation, more than a dozen current and former officials eventually testified during several weeks of hearings, giving Democrats enough to build a case against the president. With Democrats demanding answers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered an impeachment inquiry in late September. The disclosure raised a firestorm in Washington. In it, an unidentified intelligence official alleged that Trump abused his power by pressing the president of Ukraine to investigate Trump’s likely 2020 presidential election rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, while holding up nearly $400 million in military assistance as leverage. It all began with a bombshell whistleblower complaint that leaked in September.
president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. On December 18, 2019, history was made when Donald Trump became the third U.S.
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