Ruh Roh Biden argued against witnesses in 1999 impeachment trial memo

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“In January 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued strongly against the need to depose additional witnesses or seek new evidence in a memo sent to fellow Democrats ahead of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.

Biden circulated the four-page document, titled “Arguments in Support of a Summary Impeachment Trial,” on Jan. 5, 1999. In his memo, obtained by POLITICO, Biden cited historical precedents from impeachment cases going back to the establishment of the Senate and asserted “The Senate need not hold a ‘full-blown’ trial.”

““The Senate may dismiss articles of impeachment without holding a full trial or taking new evidence. Put another way, the Constitution does not impose on the Senate the duty to hold a trial,” Biden wrote at the time.


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/joe-biden-impeachment-witness-109730

Sledog

In the current case you need a crime to hold a trial.

Odd the lefties didn't call the witnesses they wanted while holding there impeachment investigation. But they didn't call ANY first hand witnesses. I thought most of these morons were attorneys. But that self explanatory.

PurpleThrobber

Sledog said:

In the current case you need a crime to hold a trial.

Odd the lefties didn't call the witnesses they wanted while holding there impeachment investigation. But they didn't call ANY first hand witnesses. I thought most of these morons were attorneys. But that self explanatory.

HIGH CRIMES!!! Hhusky has said so. But can’t explain it in his own words.

2001400ex

That's been posted before and in that case. The president's inner circle, including the president himself, was already questioned under oath.

And all the Republicans were arguing for witnesses, the same ones who are arguing against it now.

Are you really that simple minded?