Schumer on Impeachment in 1999: The Senate Is Not Like an Impartial Jury

‘It is not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us’

Dec 28, 2019 8:47 AM

By Tom Elliott

From January 1999:

SCHUMER: "This is not a criminal trial. But this is something that the Founding Fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics. It is not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us. You don’t have jurors called and lobbied and things like that."

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