Opinion | Noah Rothman: 'A frivolous examination of Joe Biden’s son on the witness stand reinforces the notion that this wasn’t just Trump’s objective, but the Republican Party’s.' - NBCNewsTHINK
to the Senate put new pressure on Republicans to call witnesses like Bolton, who has said he is willing to testify now that the courts are no longer an obstacle. But the original impasse persists. Even if Republicans call new witnesses during Trump’s trial in the Senate, any presidential effort to block that testimony would be adjudicated by the judiciary. The GOP will appeal to a federal court to resolve the stalemate, and the process begins again from square one.
The president’s opponents insist that they did not rush this process, but that assertion is rendered hollow by their own efforts to to slow proceedings to a crawl.avoid the impeachment trap Moving toward a speedy acquittal without seeking out the evidence Democrats left on the table presents its own set of risks. It’s surely better for Republicans to manage the flow of information on their terms than for new details about the president’s alleged misconduct to emerge, let’s say, in the autumn of a presidential election year.
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