Democrats were never likely to get enough votes to convict President Trump in the impeachment trial, but Republicans said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her party made a number of unforced errors that made it that much easier to shut the trial down.
From Mrs. Pelosi's move to hang onto ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren helped cement President Trump's likely impeachment acquittal with one of the questions she posed during trial, according to Sen. Ted Cruz.
Ms. Warren's question during Thursday's session sought to impugn the credibility of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. by saying his credibility was on the line ...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. rejected Democratic efforts to rope him into possibly playing an active role in the impeachment trial of President Trump, saying he will not cast any tie-breaking votes.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Democrats' floor leader, had suggested the chief justice could break ties, pointing back ...
Republican senators shut down calls Friday to hear witnesses against President Trump, matching Democrats' "half-baked, slapdash" impeachment in the House with the most abbreviated trial in Senate history.
GOP lawmakers said it wasn't their job to rescue Democrats from their own partisan bungles, rejecting a steady stream of "bombshell" reports ...
Tensions within House Democrats' impeachment team appeared to boil over onto the Senate floor Thursday night as Rep. Jerrold Nadler ran to the lectern to deliver the final answer of the night, pushing by Rep. Adam Schiff, who's been the party's point man for the Senate trial.
Mr. Schiff stood ...
Sen. Susan Collins became the first Republican to confirm she will vote to demand witnesses testify at the impeachment trial of President Trump.
The Maine Republican, who is facing re-election this year, said she backed witnesses in the 1999 trial of President Clinton, and will follow that standard now, too.
...Sen. Lamar Alexander said Thursday he doesn't see the need for more witnesses in the impeachment of President Trump, saying the president's fate should be decided by voters, not Congress.
Mr. Alexander's announcement puts Republicans in a strong position to end the Senate trial this week and vote to acquit ...
Then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden wrote in 1999 that the Senate could refuse to hear witnesses in an impeachment trial, according to a memo the president's legal team read on the Senate floor Thursday.
He said the Constitution gave the Senate the sole power to decide how it conducted impeachment trials, ...
Four senators seen as swing votes on President Trump's impeachment asked the president's lawyers Thursday if they could guarantee he would not use private Americans to conduct foreign policy.
The question, submitted by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on behalf of herself and fellow Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, and GOP Sens. Susan ...
The impeachment trial veered deeply into politics Thursday as Democrats said President Trump can't be trusted to be on the ballot this year — and Republicans accused them of trying to remove him in Congress because they know the voters would return him to the White House.
"We trust the ...
