Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed Monday to significantly speed up President Trump’s impeachment trial, offering rules that would shoehorn opening arguments into a grueling four-day period of 12-hour days, meaning a major part of the nation’s third-ever presidential impeachment trial could wrap up by the weekend. McConnell (R-Ky.) has portrayed his rules as similar to those the Senate adopted during the 1999 impeachment trial of President Clinton. Trump’s lawyers soon followed, with both sides under instructions to keep the doors closed to onlookers and the news mediapress. “They didn’t want John Bolton and others in the House,” Trump tweeted. Bolton has offered to testify in the Senate trial if he’s subpoenaed, but Trump has said he will claim executive privilege to try to block Bolton from appearing.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 20, 2020 22:52 UTC