According to the constitution and the laws so help you god. The clerk will call the names and record the responses. Was january 7, 1999. From the floor of the senate the trial of president till clinton. We had never seen anything like this before. Thelast trial was back in 1850s, no television with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this transpired . The senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it was called a trial but. T is not a legal proceeding it had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd of west virginia, a stall wart constitutional , not a supporter or friend of bill clinton. He ended up at one point throwing up its hands and admitting this should not have happened. And heal was misguided even told a colleague that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators play different roles. The house managers were fascinated to listen to the president the president s legal team was
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
A cold job by his democratic rivals will begin on tuesday hello this is aljazeera Adrian Finnegan here with our coverage in doha lets bring in our correspondent joe castro whos on capitol hill right now heidi just explain to us once again what it is were seeing right now. Well sure youre seeing the Senate Members are preparing to receive the articles of impeachment which in minutes time we were told they are to be serum only only walked across the building the u. S. Capitol building from the u. S. House of representatives side which is where all of the impeachment proceedings thus far have unfolded those hearings those votes and those articles would have been printed out they allege that trump abused his the power of this office and. Who did not cooperate with. Investigators in obstruction of congress with the impeachment investigation and those articles will be delivered by hand accompanied by 7 appointed impeachment managers these are the democratic members of the house who have been
Receive the managers of the house of representatives to exhibit the articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The president pro tempore the hour of 12 00 noon having arrived and a quorum being present, the sergeant at arms will present the managers on the part of the house of representatives. The sergeant at arms mr. President and members of the senate, i announce the presence of the managers on the part of the house of representatives to conduct proceedings on behalf of the house concerning the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The president pro tempore on the part of the house will be received and escorted to the well of the senate. The president pro tempore the sergeant at arms will make the proclamation. The sergeant at arms hear ye, hear ye, hear ye all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the United States articles of i