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servermsh's JournalPelosi officially announces commission to study attack on Capitol
Is this new? I hadn't seen the announcement before.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1361408622870290434
EDIT: TPM has the statement as well:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-2
"..staff for prosecutors were...on the phone trying to schedule a potential...deposition.."
Later, he returned again to tell the managers they should accept a deal to admit Herrera Beutler's statement into evidence and not call witnesses.
It was an important moment that did accelerate things and get the trial back on track, officials said, because it came as staff for prosecutors were already on the phone trying to schedule a potential Zoom deposition.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia also approached a manager in the hallway to urge against moving forward with calling witnesses.
According to a Democrat familiar with the matter, the impeachment managers did not tell top Senate Democrats they wanted witnesses until five minutes before the proceedings. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer didn't even know until that point, but he told the managers Friday night and Saturday morning that Senate Democrats would support whatever decision the mangers [sic] made -- and reiterated that point on a caucus call Saturday.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/senate-impeachment-trial-day-5-vote/index.html
"People want to get home for Valentine's Day."
During the Senate break after the witness vote Saturday, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) twice came into the managers’ room off the Senate floor, according to multiple Democratic sources. Coons pressed House Democrats to relent, saying their quest for witnesses would cost them Republican votes to convict and maybe even some Democrats.
"The jury is ready to vote," Coons told the managers, according to a senior House Democratic aide. "People want to get home for Valentine‘s Day."
Coons later returned a second time to urge the managers to take a deal with Trump's lawyers to enter what House Democrats viewed as damning evidence from Herrera Beutler into the record. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) also approached a House manager in the hallway to urge them against calling witnesses, according to sources close to the managers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/senate-democrats-impeachment-witnesses-468992
EDIT: Please note that House Managers could NOT have called witnesses earlier. No one was allowed to do that until that moment Saturday morning.
TJ Ducklo has resigned
FYI
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1360742488688967681
Are we now going to say that the DOJ can't pursue Trump because it will detract from a Biden agenda?
If impeachment was a "distraction" and an impediment to the Biden agenda, how the hell is an ongoing investigation, run by Biden's DOJ (which unlike the Senate is not in a separate branch of government), not a distraction and an impediment?
Please explain.
And now Republicans are constantly interrupting the presentation
Of course they are! They can do anything! There are NO rules for Republicans! NONE!
I am beside myself with rage and anger right now.
I'm shaking at what just happened!
A stupid reading of an already public statement!
They passed a motion to call witnesses and then didn't call witnesses!
That testimony would have been extremely embarrassing for Republicans.
Today's process makes it look like Democrats caved to Republican threats. Republicans will be laughing about this for weeks.
I'm ENRAGED!
The Senate should vote to form a Rule XI committee to gather evidence
Alan Frumin on CNN just said the Senate might be able to form a committee to gather evidence! That is what I have been saying.
The Senate should vote to form a Rule XI committee to gather evidence for the impeachment.
That in the trial of any impeachment the Presiding Officer of the Senate, if the Senate so orders, shall appoint a committee of senators to receive evidence and take testimony at such times and places as the committee may determine…
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Senate_Impeachment_Role.htm
This wasn't intended for sitting Presidents, but Trump is a former Federal official.
The committee would be blockbuster TV for our side! And the full Senate could continue as normal!
Sen. Ron Johnson angry at Romney, apparently
LOL 
THIS is what this trial is all about! Dividing Republicans! The final vote at the end is only one part of this.
“Ron Johnson turned to Mitt Romney and was upset with him, even pointing at him once. Johnson was visibly upset....”
https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1360618433801502721
Dear media: The Senate voted on Raskin's motion. Trump's lawyer didn't make a motion.
Raskin made a motion to call Rep. Herrera Beutler as a witness, and reserved the right to call more.
Trump's lawyer made no motion.
That is what the Senate voted on.
EDIT: I believe Trump's lawyer can now make a motion. I assume the GOP is compiling a list of witnesses.
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