re: #217 CarolJ
And tlhis cuts across the Republicans desire to wrap this up quickly before the primary season so they could “put this thing behind them” after a vote of some kind.
It’s also a large part of the reason why they’re working so hard to portray the House impeachment inquiry as a “trial,” while Moscow Mitch has said that the actual Senate “trial” will consist of a 30 minute session followed by a vote. They want to portray this as a purely partisan matter, that the Senate vote is not one of acquittal but of rejection of an attempted “coup” by House Dems.