The House is empowered to impeach a president and the Senate is empowered to conduct a trial. But clarity from America’s founders stops there
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"We had a hard time figuring out how to proceed,” retired Mississippi GOP Sen. Trent Lott, the majority leader during the Clinton trial, said in an interview. He recalled how his own lawyers had advised him that “if the House acted to impeach, we had to take it up in some way or another and consider it in the Senate.”
Should McConnell allow a trial, the Senate would have a chance to vote on rules covering the whole process. In Clinton’s case in 1999, during a meeting in their historic early 19th century chamber in the Capitol, the Senate hammered out a plan for how many hours the House GOP impeachment managers and the president’s lawyers would have to argue their case and pose questions.that would probably come into play — and they are a throwback to another era.
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