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Impt move by @RepAdamSchiff. He said Chief Justice Roberts is empowered to decide witnesses +House Managers will abide by whatever CJ decides/won't try to appeal. Trump, by contrast,is afraid not only of witnesses&docs, but of CJ Roberts (a Bush appointee)
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@RepAdamSchiff Trump is:
*Afraid of the House of Reps
*Afraid of his own National Security Adviser
*Afraid of his own Chief of Staff
*Afraid of his own National Security Council Staff
*Afraid of every document held by our Govt
*Afraid of testifying himself
*Afraid of the Chief Justice of the US
@RepAdamSchiff Is this the way an innocent man behaves?
@RepAdamSchiff Can @SenatorRomney and other moderate Republicans go along with a plan to block witnesses & documents that is based on nothing more than Trump being afraid of the Truth, and a plan that attacks every institution of Govt that might conceivably vote against him, including our CJ?
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McConnell speech totally contradicts itself. It first claims the House “declined to hear from witnesses.” House of course never “declined”—they didn’t want to get bogged down in long court fight.

Then McConnell says witnesses shouldn’t be called in Senate. His reason? Omg ...
He says that would lead to a lengthy court fight and generate destructive precedent. This is precisely what he said should have happened in the House! Makes zero sense.

And he’s wrong about that too. Chief Justice can rule on exec priv claims quickly. No ct fight. Unlike House
McConnell argument thus boomerangs.

It demonstrates that he will do anything, and say anything, to try to prevent the American people from learning the truth.

It should be simple-If the President’s behavior was perfect&beautiful, why are they so afraid of documents+witnesses?
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Neal Katyal
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What I didn’t say on air but was thinking the whole time watching Chief Justice: what upsets me so much is that there is not an ounce of contrition by Trump. I’ve always associated Govt service with self-reflection&a deep need to own up to mistakes. Rs,Ds + Is had that.

Not him.
There’s just no sense of sorrow for putting the country through this. None at all. It’s just all about him.

And for what? There were 50
Legitimate ways to fight Ukraine corruption that would have never triggered such a heart-wrenching moment

Yet there is zero self reflection
There’s no sense of apology for putting our nation through something that will tear at us.

There’s no sense of sorrow for putting the Chief Justice through this.

Nothing. Just insults to the opposition.

I can’t think of something more unAmerican.
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Neal Katyal
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Thank you @DartmouthReview for this review of IMPEACH. "If you are a Trump supporter, this can be a difficult book to read...However...before you are a Trump supporter...you are an American. By your own admission, you believe in the Constitution"
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Jamie Dupree
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Chief Justice Roberts arrives with his briefcase, and the Senate is now in session for the President's impeachment trial
This means there will be no tie vote on whether to call witnesses. The Senate is now starting 4 hours of arguments on whether to subpoena witnesses and documents.
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🍑 The impeachment trial convened at 1:14 pm. Today the senators will ask questions of the House Managers and the president's defense.

Here's the card upon which they can write their questions

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During the opening prayer, Chief Justice Roberts looks troubled

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Each side will alternate with answers kept to 5 minutes.

Susan Collins is first. "I send a question to the desk on behalf of myself, Senator Murkowski, and Senator Romney."

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Welcome to today's #Trump #ImpeachmentTrial thread (potentially one of a few)! I've been playing around with tags a little in other tweets this morning but for now, I'm going to stick with the two I've used here. That may change later on, though. Follow/mute at will!
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John Roberts is the Chief Justice of the United States (not just the Supreme Court).

He swore Trump in (and Obama, twice).

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