Next in the Trump impeachment trial: 16 hours of questions. How that will work – By Bart Jansen (USA Today) / Jan 29 2020
WASHINGTON – Several senators have skirted the rules by furtively passing notes to each other during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
With Trump’s team finished with its opening statements, which wrapped up Tuesday, senators will actually be encouraged to pass notes, but not to each other.
Instead, they’ll be passing them to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, and, as the trial moves into its next phase, it will be the only way they are allowed to communicate their questions to the House impeachment managers and Trump’s legal team.
Under the procedural rules adopted in a marathon 11-hour session on the first day of the trial, senators will get 16 hours to ask questions. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the question period will be split up into two eight-hour sessions that will take place Wednesday and Thursday beginning at 1 p.m.
What questions they’ll still have after listening to dozens of hours of arguments from the two sides is anybody’s guess, but here’s a look at how the question phase of the trial will work.
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