Joe Biden once urged Democrats two days ahead of President Bill Clinton’s Senate impeachment trial that charges could be dropped without taking into account new evidence.
“The Senate may dismiss articles of impeachment without holding a full trial or taking new evidence. Put another way, the Constitution does not impose on the Senate the duty to hold a trial,” the Delaware Democrat said in a Jan. 5, 1999, memo Politico published today.
“The Senate may dismiss articles of impeachment without holding a full trial or taking new evidence. Put another way, the Constitution does not impose on the Senate the duty to hold a trial,” the Delaware Democrat said in a Jan. 5, 1999, memo Politico published today.