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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

What I described is an interpretation of Anglo-American jurisprudence granting maximum advantage to the Democrats' point of view. Certain of the rights of the defendant (I.e., President Trump) which you have enumerated pertain primarily at the phase of the trial before the Senate, and, in an ordinary criminal proceeding, would not really effect the pre-indictment (I.e., pre-impeachment) phase of the proceedings.

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I have tried to make plain my insistence that the failure to adhere to the (admittedly non-binding) precedents of the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon and President Clinton, combined with the insistence upon secrecy in the current hearings (a secrecy repeatedly violated by Representative Schiff by means of his constant leaks to the press of testimonial tidbits favorable to the Democrats' political posture) clearly compromises any Democratic claim as to the legitimacy of any impeachment documents they may present before the Senate

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