The Senate leadership announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement on the structure for the former President Trump
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“For information from the Senate, the Republican leader and I, in consultation with the administrators of the House and the lawyers of former President Trump, agree to a bipartisan resolution to govern the structure and timing of the impending trial,” Senate majority leader Charles Schumer
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“All parties have agreed to a structure that will guarantee a fair and honest impeachment trial of the former president in the Senate,” said Schumer.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell
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“I am pleased that leader Schumer and I have agreed on a fair trial and an estimated timetable for the next Senate trial,” said McConnell. “This will give senators as jurors enough time to receive the case and the arguments.”
Schumer’s announcement came after he revealed during a news conference in New York that they were finalizing a deal.
The timetable will allow the trial to end as early as next week, if both sides agree not to call witnesses.
Under the agreement, the Senate will debate and vote on Tuesday whether the trial is constitutional or not. The effort to declare the trial unconstitutional will be shortly after Rand Paul
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The opening discussion will start on Wednesday. Under the agreement, House impeachment managers and the Trump team will have 16 hours over two days each to present their case to the Senate.
That’s a faster pace than the Clinton trial and Trump’s first trial, where both sides had 24 hours.
The agreement also leaves the door open for calling witnesses. House impeachment managers previously invited Trump to testify under oath, an offer rejected by his lawyers. They have yet to say whether they will try to get the Senate to call other witnesses.
The trial will also be halted on Saturday to accommodate a request by one of Trump’s lawyers to observe the Jewish Sabbath.
If both sides used all their time, it would create opening arguments to close on Sunday.
After that, the Senate is expected to have time to ask questions from both sides, as well as possible deliberations. In previous trials, senators had two days for the question and answer session. According to the resolution of the rules of the trial, senators will have four hours to ask questions.
Both sides will have two hours for final arguments.
“As in previous trials, there will be equal time for the senator’s questions and final arguments and an opportunity for the Senate to make deliberations if it so wishes and then we will vote on the impeachment article,” said Schumer.
The trial comes almost five weeks after the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Although Republicans were furious after Trump asked his supporters to march to the Capitol while lawmakers counted the result of the Electoral College, Democrats are not expected to get the 17 votes needed to condemn Trump.