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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 260: Now Endorsing Every Candidate
LordoftheMorons 01/21/20 2:39:25 PM #42:	red sox 777 posted... More seriously, LOTM, the precedent that the House violated was not that the defense gets to call witnesses, but that the minority party in Congress gets to call witnesses. The minority on any Congressional committee is always allowed to call witnesses - or at least that was the precedent. They were allowed to call witnesses (iirc Sondland and Morrison were their witnesses?). What was rejected was the Republicans either calling witnesses that couldn't possible have any relevant knowledge (e.g. Hunter Biden) or calling a witness in order to illegally retaliate against them (calling the whistleblower in order to reveal their identity and then allow Trump to punish them). edit: I think Volker might also have been one of theirs --- Congrats to Advokaiser for winning the CBX Guru Challenge! <cite>LordoftheMorons posted [p:933279025] in Politics C... [t:78348668]...</cite> <quote>red sox 777 posted... </cite> <quote>More seriously, LOTM, the precedent that the House violated was not that the defense gets to call witnesses, but that the minority party in Congress gets to call witnesses. The minority on any Congressional committee is always allowed to call witnesses - or at least that was the precedent.</quote>They were allowed to call witnesses (iirc Sondland and Morrison were their witnesses?). What was rejected was the Republicans either calling witnesses that couldn't possible have any relevant knowledge (e.g. Hunter Biden) or calling a witness in order to illegally retaliate against them (calling the whistleblower in order to reveal their identity and then allow Trump to punish them). edit: I think Volker might also have been one of theirs --- Congrats to Advokaiser for winning the CBX Guru Challenge!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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