Republican challenges Schiff to ‘be Ken Starr’ and testify in impeachment inquiry by jonward11
“Come to the Judiciary Committee,” said Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “Be the first witness, and take every question asked of you.”“It’s possible, but no decision has been made,” the Democratic aide said.
This wasn’t even a vote for or against impeaching the president. It was a procedural motion, but it foreshadowed that the coming political battle figures to be the most partisan and divided impeachment in the nation’s history. Trump would be the third U.S. president to be so rebuked by the House of representatives, and would be subject to a Senate trial that decides whether he should be removed from office.
Story continuesBut Collins’s challenge to Schiff was intriguing because by comparing Schiff to Starr, the Republican endorsed the idea that Democrats are indeed in an investigative phase of the impeachment inquiry. This, Democrats say, is why much of what has happened so far is behind closed doors and not in open hearings, which is a phase that comes after the investigation is finished.
Democrats say that Schiff — the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee — is playing the role of Starr in the Trump impeachment, doing the investigative work that Starr did in 1998.
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