Jeff Merkley compared the ordeal to a road trip, while the experience of being a juror was new for Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris outside the Senate Chamber on Thursday. Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images For senators, an impeachment trial is a hybrid of law school and jury duty.
Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley told Intelligencer that he had already taken over 50 pages of notes. He remarked that he might have taken more but the “piles of handouts” from House managers have reduced the number that he needed to take. He planned on going through all of his notes in “a systematic process” during the 16 hours allotted for senators to ask questions.
Battling a bad cold, Merkley said he felt “very depleted” as a result of the long hours of the trial despite being “normally being very high energy during the day.” To cope with this, he said, “I’m doing a fair amount of standing and I’m getting glasses of ice cubes. So I’m crunching on ice cubes.” Merkley also said that he kept “little pieces of beef jerky” in his desk drawer. The Oregon Democrat compared the ordeal to being on a long road trip. “This is what I do when I drive,” he said.
In contrast, Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, harkened back to her legal career. “I’m thinking of it in terms of the elements of the case,” and used a familiar law school approach of IRAC — issue, rule, application and conclusion — to organize her thinking about the case. Harris was able to sit back and appreciate the approach of the House managers from a technical standpoint. “They are doing it in a very logical way,” said the former California state attorney general.
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