The battle on the Senate floor, presided over by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, largely centered around the rules that will be adopted for the trial proceedings going forward.
"Never before in the history of our country has a President been confronted with this kind of impeachment proceeding in the House," said White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who is leading the president's defense.
But Democrats quickly cried foul on those rules, which departed from Clinton's trial in key sections — most notably in the time constraints placed on both sides to state their cases. But as the resolution on the trial rules was being read aloud in the Senate chamber, McConnell made two significant changes to his proposal.
By waiting as long as he did to announce the changes, McConnell ensured that his Democratic counterparts spent the day focused primarily on objecting to the specifics of those two rules. Less attention was paid to a third contentious issue in the trial rules: whether or not the Senate will hear from live witnesses.
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