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POLITICO HAS UNCOVERED 1999 LETTER FROM THEN SEN. JOE BIDEN TO FELLOW DEMOCRATS SAYING SENATE SHOULD NOT CALL WITNESSES DURING CLINTON IMPEACHMENT
by Kevin Ryan
Politico has obtained a letter written by then-Sen. Joe Biden arguing strongly against the need for witnesses or evidence in President Clinton’s Senate impeachment trial. Biden sent the four-page document to fellow Democrats on Jan. 5, 1999.
“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.
“In a number of previous impeachment trials, the Senate has reached the judgment that its constitutional role as a sole trier of impeachments does not require it to take new evidence or hear live witness testimony.”
Biden also said senators should take into account the impact that prolonging the impeachment proceedings would have on the country.
“In light of the extensive record already compiled, it may be that the benefit of receiving additional evidence or live testimony is not great enough to outweigh the public costs (in terms of national prestige, faith in public institutions, etc.) of such a proceeding,” Biden said. “While a judge may not take such considerations into account, the Senate is uniquely competent to make such a balance.”
He cites historical precedents from impeachment cases going back to the establishment of the Senate.
Biden’s comments from 1999 are at odds with current Democratic talking points that additional witnesses must be called to get to the bottom of Trump’s actions in the Ukraine saga. Seventeen witnesses testified in the House impeachment inquiry, but Democrats say they need more, and want the Republican-controlled Senate to subpoena former national security advisor John Bolton and others.
SOURCES:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/joe-biden-impeachment-witness-109730
https://static.politico.com/…/c1f5b0e64288babb…/0247-001.pdf
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POLITICO HAS UNCOVERED 1999 LETTER FROM THEN SEN. JOE BIDEN TO FELLOW DEMOCRATS SAYING SENATE SHOULD NOT CALL WITNESSES DURING CLINTON IMPEACHMENT
by Kevin Ryan
Politico has obtained a letter written by then-Sen. Joe Biden arguing strongly against the need for witnesses or evidence in President Clinton’s Senate impeachment trial. Biden sent the four-page document to fellow Democrats on Jan. 5, 1999.
“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.
“In a number of previous impeachment trials, the Senate has reached the judgment that its constitutional role as a sole trier of impeachments does not require it to take new evidence or hear live witness testimony.”
Biden also said senators should take into account the impact that prolonging the impeachment proceedings would have on the country.
“In light of the extensive record already compiled, it may be that the benefit of receiving additional evidence or live testimony is not great enough to outweigh the public costs (in terms of national prestige, faith in public institutions, etc.) of such a proceeding,” Biden said. “While a judge may not take such considerations into account, the Senate is uniquely competent to make such a balance.”
He cites historical precedents from impeachment cases going back to the establishment of the Senate.
Biden’s comments from 1999 are at odds with current Democratic talking points that additional witnesses must be called to get to the bottom of Trump’s actions in the Ukraine saga. Seventeen witnesses testified in the House impeachment inquiry, but Democrats say they need more, and want the Republican-controlled Senate to subpoena former national security advisor John Bolton and others.
SOURCES:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/joe-biden-impeachment-witness-109730
https://static.politico.com/…/c1f5b0e64288babb…/0247-001.pdf
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