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 ...
Republicans are closer to the 51 votes they need to head off witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial than it seemed earlier this week, with senators saying there are perhaps four who are still in play.
Two of the 53 Republicans — Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins ...
Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard emeritus professor assisting President Trump's impeachment defense, warned Wednesday that much of the country would refuse to accept a conviction in the trial.
He said he grew up in the era of McCarthyism, and the country is more divided today than it was then, and Mr. ...
Senate Democrats said Wednesday they would be willing to turn over key legal decisions in the impeachment trial to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — but the president's team said it wouldn't agree, saying it's not how the Constitution envisioned things.
Chief Justice Roberts is presiding over the trial, ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that there are enough votes to force Hunter Biden to testify in the impeachment trial, should senators vote to have any witnesses.
He was responding to a challenge from the top Democrat, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, who seemed to doubt the GOP could muster the ...
Rep. Adam Schiff refused under direct questioning Wednesday to divulge any details about the whistleblower who spurred the impeachment of President Trump, irking Republicans who demanded he reveal what he knew.
Mr. Schiff would only say the whistleblower was found "credible" by the intelligence community's inspector general.
Yet Mr. Schiff ...
If the Senate calls former National Security Advisor John Bolton as a witness in the impeachment trial against President Trump it would open a Pandora's Box that would leave the Senate gridlocked for months, the president's lawyers told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin said if Mr. ...
Senators got their first crack at the impeachment managers Wednesday as they kicked off 16 hours of questions with one on whether a president can have mixed motives for taking official action — and when it becomes a high crime or misdemeanor.
Patrick Philbin, one of the president's lawyers, said ...
