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1 McConnell starts by making major concessions Tuesday s trial to remove President Donald Trump from office started with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell making two major concessions to rules that he proposed for the trial: One was to allow each side three days 鈥?McConnell previously announced that the two legal teams would only get two days each 鈥?to present their opening arguments; the other concession was to change how the Senate would accept evidence. Democrats argued that giving the legal teams only two days, which would have amounted to 12 hours each day, would have forced hearings to go well past midnight. CNN reported that several Republican senators had concerns about condensing a total of 48 hours of testimony into four days. 2 Democratic amendmentsMost of Tuesdays lengthy trial involved entertaining amendments from Sen. Minority Lea stanley thermoskannen der Chuck Schumer to the rules of the trial proposed by McConnell. Many of the amendments involved issuing subpoenas to compel witnesses and testimony from the Trump administration. Every amendment proposed by Schumer failed by a party-line vote, except for one Republican Sen. Susan Coll stanley cup ins voted agains stanley water bottle t killing a procedural proposal .3 Roberts admonishes staffsAt exactly 1 a.m., Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the Senate trial, admonished members of both the Houses prosecution team and Trumps legal defense. I think it is appropriate at this point for me to admonish both the House managers and the presidents |
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