McConnell: Senate Should Stick With Clinton Precedent for Impeachment Trial

McConnell: Senate Should Stick With Clinton Precedent for Impeachment Trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks on the Senate floor at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 3, 2020. Senate TV via AP
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that the Senate impeachment trial should stick with the precedent established during the impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s.

McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, warned that the Senate shouldn’t “deviate from a unanimous bipartisan precedent set in the 1999 trial of President Clinton and write new rules for President Trump.”

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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