.MaddowBlog: McConnell changes direction (at least a bit) on impeachment trial
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled his blueprint for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial last night, it landed with a thud.
Senate Democrats howled, pointing to the Republican leadership’s approach as evidence of a rigged trial, and a sharp departure from the rules during the Clinton impeachment trial in 1999. This afternoon, to the surprise of many, McConnell shifted his posture. McConnell also tweaked another controversial provision that could have barred all the evidence against Trump gathered by the House Democrats’ inquiry from being entered into the Senate record.
But it was an unexpected step all the same – which naturally raises questions about why McConnell, after weeks of planning, changed his mind.
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