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m'k. Missed opening instructions and crucial motion to suspend rules. So. Listening to Mrs Manager Demings, at the moment, I presume public debate to subpoena Bolton, specifically, has commenced.
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 06:32:41 PM EST
hmm, so far no senators have addressed the chamber. So I suppose that impeach managers are first, to argue admissiblity of "new evidence" from the (D) list. Whether this list is a copy of Schumer's 11 Amd. list I could not say. Perhaps someone "leaked" a (D) list to press?

Is an (R) list circulating in private or public?

The roster is not not alternating. So far House managers have the floor and are still abusing video clips* to demonstrate indisputable and disputed testimony. Which is problematic in defense of House witnesses corroborate each other's hearsay testimony and Art. II, obstruction a/k/a "cover-up". Jeffries nominates Mulvaney, Duffy, and Blair (OMB)--but his contribution may be incomplete. Jeffries (third spkr?) is followed by Gomez--who just resurrected Bolton's "forthcoming book" in lieu of redacted docs--followed by HUAC Rev. Chairman Mr Manager Schiff's concealment-fair trial monologue.
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* House evidence admitted to the senate for consideration: yesterday Crapo et al. solicited an accounting by R/WH managers.

PHILBIN....There were 17 witnesses who were deposed and testified--12 in public, 17 who were in closed hearings below. So far you have seen in these presentations 192 video clips from 13 different witnesses. ... I think the more official number is 28,578 pages. So you have got over 28,000 pages of documents submitted into the record provisionally in evidence in this trial, subject later to potential objections for hearsay and other evidentiary objections.
Johnson et al. resurrected the credibility of witnesses Misko, Vindman, and the whistle-blower-he-cannot-be-named.
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 07:44:43 PM EST
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s/b GARCIA, she's frontpage USAToday as I type.
Garcia: Trump doesn't get exoneration without witnesses - impeachment updates
"An acquittal on an incomplete record after a trial lacking witnesses and evidence will be no exoneration. It will be no vindication, not for the president, not for this chamber and not for the American people."

yanno, all of them are having troubles transforming the ahh meet-up which should not be "politicized" into a trial-above-teh-law, ie. USC, including but not limited to federal rules of evidence and procedure.

by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 07:58:53 PM EST
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APsplainin Senate to vote on Trump trial witnesses with end in sight
"The timing of a final vote on Trump was still uncertain. The Senate gaveled [sic] opened with four hours set for arguments on the question of calling more witnesses."

supra
Sat Jan 25th, 2020 at 10:51:07 PM EST

by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 08:07:57 PM EST
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Politico swinging for the fences
Trump's impeachment trial could extend into next week
White House officials wanted more time to prepare their closing arguments in the case, said several sources.
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Republicans suggest the trial could extend into next week due to scheduling concerns over the Iowa caucuses on Monday and Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
waitwut. Did I miss the silent vote before recess?
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the No. 4 Senate Republican, said that the GOP may convene again later Friday after defeating a vote on whether to hear from more witnesses.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) did not respond to a question about timing. He may ultimately offer a motion on Friday that would set the parameters of the end of Trump's trial and determine whether senators [?!] will make final statements [?!] about their verdicts [?!] on Trump and how much time to give House managers and the White House counsel time to finish their arguments.
"The Senate stands in recess subject to the call of the Chair" rather than The Desk.(senate.gov)
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 08:36:46 PM EST
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R/WH manager opens on judiciability and defects in Articles of Impeachment. < wipes tears > "subjective abuse of powers."
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 08:45:16 PM EST
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RECESS!
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 07:51:03 PM EST
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HUAC Rev. Chairman Mr Manager Schiff returns with a proposal: one (1) week to depose witnesses called by "both sides"; (2) senate agreement to depute the C.J. in disputes on the admissibility of witnesses, according to existing senate rules; (3) senate agreement on deposition time limits; and a long digression into the obligations and responsibilities of the senate to TRY and DELIBERATE probative evidence of the POTUS impeachable conduct, to follow the NORMS of trial by jury ...

< wipes tears >

C.J. recognizes majority leader. Quorum call begins.
alrighty then.

by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 09:35:31 PM EST
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Hello? Normal American justice --for criminal of either the corporate or natural person pesuasion--is dispensed by plea bargain.
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 09:39:47 PM EST
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hmm, Quorum call continues. That's slightly alarming. Who was in the chamber while the managers were speaking?
by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 10:10:57 PM EST
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FINALLY. (5:35 PM)
Call ends. Agreed with the minority leader: Vote on witness "question" (shall it be in order to debate and order ...") followed by another recess subject to the call of The Chair.

ROLL CALL - AYE/NAYE by voice, simple majority suspense ...

RESULT: 49-51 NAYE

buh-bye

by Cat on Fri Jan 31st, 2020 at 10:43:29 PM EST
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