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Senators Take Impeachment Trial Oath From Chief Justice John Roberts
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49:02Now PlayingThe Senate impeachment ceremony continues Thursday as Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts arrives and is escorted into the chamber and is sworn in by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Grassley. The Chief Justice will swear in the senators. Under the Senate impeachment rules, the president is summoned and given time to respond. Other agreements can be reached at this stage of the process. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is set to begin Tuesday.
After House prosecutor Adam Schiff finished reading the impeachment articles to the Senate, the House managers walked back through an empty Statuary Hall to return to the House side of the Capitol.
The senators chosen to escort Roberts to the Senate chamber at 2 p.m. are Republicans Roy Blunt of Missouri and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Democrats Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Dianne Feinstein of California.
One bit of unfinished pre-trial business is the adoption of Senate Republicans’ rules for the trial. GOP Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said in an interview that Republicans haven’t been shown a draft of the rules, and that they may not see the document until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offers it on the floor Tuesday.
As Schiff read the impeachment articles, senators in the normally empty chamber sat at their desks with somber expressions. A few took notes, including Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, one of the Democratic presidential candidates who had to leave the campaign for the trial.
Others watched with arms folded, looked down or fidgeted in the quiet chamber, where senators are prohibited from having cell phones or other electronic devices and were told to stay at their desks throughout the proceedings.
Those staring intently at Schiff included McConnell as well as Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, key Republican votes on whether to call witnesses or seek new documents.
Some of the galleries usually open to the public were empty. The press gallery was full.
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