Sen. Leahy: Statement on Impeachment Trial Witnesses
February 01, 2020
February 01, 2020
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on Jan. 31:
The question before us is incredibly serious, but it is also more than a little absurd. We are sitting as a court, exercising the sole power to try impeachments, entrusted to us by the Framers. The President of the United States has been charged with high crimes - a constitutional charge of abuse of power that includes in its text each of the elements of criminal bribery. The President . . .
The question before us is incredibly serious, but it is also more than a little absurd. We are sitting as a court, exercising the sole power to try impeachments, entrusted to us by the Framers. The President of the United States has been charged with high crimes - a constitutional charge of abuse of power that includes in its text each of the elements of criminal bribery. The President . . .