Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants documents pertaining to the Trump administration’s hold on congressionally approved aid to Ukraine, arguing the documentary evidence is an “important aspect of the trial.”
Schumer said in a letter sent to the 99 other senators on Dec. 23 that his request for documents has received far less attention than his call for four witnesses to be called in the trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has dismissed early calls for witnesses, preferring to follow the votes that took place during the impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton.
