House to convene for the first time of the new year and a first true signal of when speaker might advance impeachment issue House speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly staying mum on when she might transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, casting even more confusion over the timeline for the eventual trial. Pelosi is not telling anyone yet about her plans to send over the articles of impeachment -- not even her closest allies, not even Schumer, per multiple sources. Schumer has told colleagues he thinks articles could be sent over this week but doesn’t know for sure. Republican senator Ron Johnson, who has traveled to Ukraine and previously spoken to officials who became key players in the impeachment inquiry, said he does not believe John Bolton should testify in a Senate trial. “Having been involved, having spoken with John Bolton myself on this issue, I don’t know what additional information he might have,” Johnson said of Trump’s former national security adviser, according to the Daily Beast. “I don’t think it’d be particularly revealing.” Worth repeating.
The testimony & evidence considered in a Senate impeachment trial should be the same testimony & evidence the House relied upon when they passed the Articles of Impeachment.
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