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Chief Justice Roberts takes on new role in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial: Strict timekeeper

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Chief Justice John Roberts exerted his unique authority as a timekeeper Wednesday by cutting off long-winded answers from lawyers as President Trump’s impeachment trial heads into the question phase.

Lev Parnas makes a scene at impeachment trial, telling senators: ‘Call me’

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President Trump's impeachment trial continued Wednesday with a media spectacle as Lev Parnas, an indicted Rudy Giuliani associate, showed up at the Capitol volunteering himself as a trial witness to senators.

Senate impeachment trial moves into questioning: Here’s how it works

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The question phase of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump kicks off at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday with senators getting their first chance to weigh in formally on the six days of opening arguments they’ve sat silently through.

McConnell says GOP doesn’t have votes yet to block impeachment witnesses, as Bolton book disrupts trial script

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The White House’s plans for a speedy impeachment trial were thrown into doubt Tuesday with Senate Republicans floating competing proposals on how to deal with new explosive revelations from ex-national security adviser John Bolton -- and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell telling Republicans he doesn’t yet have enough votes to block the calling of impeachment witnesses.

Trump lawyer calls Bolton book ‘inadmissible,’ as defense team wraps impeachment arguments

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President Trump’s legal team argued John Bolton’s book manuscript should be “inadmissible” in the impeachment trial and urged an immediate acquittal as they wrapped up arguments before senators on Tuesday.

Bolton for Biden? Witness swap talk revived in wake of bombshell book manuscript

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The jolting revelations from John Bolton’s manuscript revived on Capitol Hill talk of a witness swap as a way to hear from the former national security adviser in President Trump’s impeachment trial.

Trump rates his legal team’s performance in Senate impeachment trial

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A pleased President Trump views his lawyers’ forceful two-hour defense presentation Saturday as a “mandate to end” the impeachment trial swiftly, sources familiar with Trump’s thinking told Fox News.

Schiff stands by ‘head on a pike’ remark in Senate impeachment speech amid GOP furor

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Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff dismissed the GOP hubbub over his “head on a pike” remarks as a mere distraction from President Trump’s impeachable conduct.

GOP senators: Dems threw Bidens ‘under the bus’ in Trump impeachment trial

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President Trump’s allies say Democrats made a critical mistake by spending so much time on Joe and Hunter Biden in their Senate impeachment trial arguments, and they’ve given Trump’s legal team no choice but give the father and son's dealings in Ukraine a starring role when they launch their defense starting Saturday.