Reporter’s Notebook: Precedent, the reason Senate rules feel ‘made up’

CQ Roll Call reporter Niels Lesniewski took a deep dive into the history of impeachment ahead of the Senate trial for President Donald Trump. He found some pertinent parallels in a 1936 impeachment case of a federal judge from Florida that involved the House adding articles of impeachment after a Senate trial began.
Watch as he takes us through the weird rabbit hole he jumped down for this archived story.
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