Render impartial justice with the chief justice of the Supreme Court presided as the chief judge. I will administer the oath in the chamber in conform airs with the constitution and the Senate Impeachment rules. To be sure no vote would be parted, you take a vote three times to render impartial justice. Ne as group, then as individual, and the third, you go into the well and you sign the book for all of history where i hereby, barbara mikulski, u. S. Senator from maryland do pledge to render impartial justice in the matter of impeachment. Your hand shakes with that kind of historical amendment. Historical and media commitment. Host don ritchie, u. S. Senate historian emeritus, we have asked you to spend an hour with us to give us some perspective, to guide us what might happen. Senator mikulski talks about how important this felt, as the United States senator, the job that they were doing. As a whole, as the process gets underway, how should the public think about impeachment . Is it a
In conformance with article one, section three, clause six of the constitution, and the Senate Impeachment rules. To be sure no vote would be parted, you take a vote three times to render impartial justice. One as group, then as individual, and the third, you go into the well and you sign the book where i hereby, u. S. Senator from maryland, pledged to render impartial justice in the matter of impeachment. Your hand shakes with that kind of historical amendment. Host don ritchie, u. S. Senate historian emeritus, we have asked you to spend an hour with us to give us some perspective, to guide us what might happen. Senator mccluskey talks about how important this felt, the job the u. S. Senators were doing. As a whole, as the process gets underway, how should the public think about impeachment . Is it a judicial process, a legal process, a political process . Mr. Ritchie it is all three. It is really a judicial process spelled out very specifically in the constitution as to what the role
Is a small city north of albany in upstate new york. My parents are they are both deceased now, but were part of a very cohesive jewish community, up there, of fairly devout people, conservative and modern Orthodox Jews in that area, the tricity area. My father worked in the garment industry. He eventually bought a small business, a factory, up there and worked very hard his whole life to support his family, my two sisters and me. My mother was a teacher for a while and an administrator in the government, in albany. So i kind of come from the middle bourgeoisie, people who are not very well connected or in anyway, i think, privileged, so i regard myself, almost, as kind of a working class girl, certainly as a yeoman class girl. I attended the Public Schools in troy, new york. I went to college at yale college, in the early 1970s, which was when yale was just beginning to accept women. I majored in biophysics and biochemistry. I then went to oxford on a marshall scholarship to study phi
Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w
discusses the role of chief justice roberts in the trial. will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal is next. announcer: the senate impeachment trial of donald trump set to resume at 1 p.m. eastern today. senators will spend the day debating the rules that will guide the trial. the president is spending his day on the world stage in switzerland. he is made comments this morning about his trial in the senate. we will talk about all of that this morning washington journal. we want to hear from you. give us a call. phone lines are open. (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001, independence (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a text at (202) 748-8003. send us your name and where you are or catch up with us on facebook or twitter. very good tuesday morning to you. the impeachment trial gets underway in earnest today. we learned what that trial might look like. releasing hisl long-awaited resolution, setting the paramete