As expected, Democratic Senators questions appear to be going mostly to House Managers & are solely designed to illicit a repetition of the case against Trump
Highly likely they are coordinated
This nice trick also means no rebuttal from defense team
Highly likely they are coordinated
This nice trick also means no rebuttal from defense team
And GOP doing the same so far
A much better process would have been for Senators to ask questions, with BOTH House Managers and defense team given time to answer the SAME question. The relative quality of the answers against the available evidence could then be determined
A much better process would have been for Senators to ask questions, with BOTH House Managers and defense team given time to answer the SAME question. The relative quality of the answers against the available evidence could then be determined
What we’ve got here is a little like what happens in Parliamentary systems like England or Australia: where elected officials ask their “team” (eg Prime Minister) a question like: “isn’t it true that our side is brilliant and the other side are dopes?”. Bad Q’s, worse answers
The workaround is what some on GOP team have worked out already, which is to ask the same question to the defense team... which sort of works, but leaves them refuting a proposition, rather than making a positive/affirmative case for acquittal
Or it turns out you can ask a question to BOTH at the same time, but this splits the response time in half...to 2.5 mins each!
CJ Roberts appears to have made that up on the spot
CJ Roberts appears to have made that up on the spot
