Witnesses Could Be Compelled In Senate Trial

[applegrove]

Witnesses Could Be Compelled In Senate Trial

November 24, 2019 at 1:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 159 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/11/24/witnesses-could-be-compelled-in-senate-trial/

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House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff left the door open to the possibility of more hearings or depositions in the impeachment inquiry but said that Democrats will not “wait months and months while the administration plays a game of rope-a-dope in an effort to try to stall,” CNN reports.

In fact, he said it’s possible reluctant witnesses could be compelled to testify at a Senate trial.

Said Schiff: “Well, I think there’s certainly merit to the idea that we may get a quicker ruling from a chief justice in a Senate trial, if it ever came to that, than we would get by going months and months on end litigating the matter.”

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[5X]

1. That's assuming Roberts will not be biased in his rulings.

[applegrove]

2. Yes. If he is biased in his rulings dems can run on that.

[StarfishSaver]

3. I think Roberts will try to play it straight

He's not going to sacrifice his legacy on the altar of Trump.

[Mike 03]

4. This exact point is made fairly strongly by author David Kaplan

in his book The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump. Roberts takes his role very seriously.

[BigmanPigman]

5. So do I, from what I have heard and seen

about him over the last several years.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Roberts' carreer is safe. He probably doesn't care whether tRunp ever knew him.

[StarfishSaver]

7. And he surely isn't the least bit concerned if Trump tweets mean things about him.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. This presupposes that McConnell will hold one.

I am not confident that will happen.