The Democrats are going to do whatever they can to make the Senate Proceedings as long as possible. They still have a lot of ground to cover especially since the still need to find sufficient evidence. Luckily Senator Mitch McConnell does not want this trial to drag on forever and foresees the Dems stalling, so he is adding an addendum that would allow President Trump to call for a vote that would put the trial to an end if things get out of hand. That will surely get the Dems riled up.
This “kill switch” put in place for the President would allow his legal team to either seek an immediate verdict or a dismissal of the case if the trial were to descend into a circus spectacle.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Axios, “I am familiar with the resolution as it stood a day or two ago. My understanding is that the resolution will give the president’s team the option to either move to judgment or to move to dismiss at a meaningful time…”
Axios reported, “Hawley added that in the most recent draft of the organizing resolution he saw there was an option for the president’s counsel to make a motion in multiple places, including at the beginning of the proceedings. Hawley added that if the final resolution does not allow Trump’s lawyers the option to dismiss or move to judgment at a ‘meaningful point’ in the trial, he would be ‘very, very surprised,’ and might not vote for the organizing resolution.”
A source close to McConnell told Breitbart News. “If they even think about stepping out of line and being unfair in the slightest, it’s time to engage said kill switch and end this nonsense once and for all.”
