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Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:20 PM Nov 2019

Witnesses Could Be Compelled In Senate Trial [View all]

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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