Posted January 31, 2020 at 11:52am
This is our Groundhog Day edition of Photos of the Week. If senators emerge from their burrows and see their shadow, there will be six more weeks of impeachment. But like the movie “Groundhog Day,” we are going to make you relive this week all over again and again.
Kenneth Starr, a member of Trump’s impeachment legal team, arrives in the Capitol on Monday for the start of the Senate impeachment trial proceedings. Starr was the independent counsel whose investigation helped lead to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith grabs a brown bag with her name on it from an aide as she walks through the Senate Reception Room to the Senate chamber on Monday for the start of impeachment trial proceedings. The Democrat informed us that the bag contained honey for her tea to help with her cough. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tells reporters to ask questions one at a time at a news conference during a break in the impeachment trial on Monday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call) North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis speaks with reporters through the closing elevator doors Tuesday before the start of the Senate impeachment trial proceedings. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks with reporters Tuesday before the start of the impeachment trial proceedings. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Utah Sen. Mitt Romney talks with reporters in the Senate subway Tuesday before the continuation of the impeachment trial. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Reporters crowd around Graham in the hallway just off the Rotunda on Tuesday as he leaves a Senate Republicans’ caucus meeting to discuss witnesses for the Senate impeachment trial. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks with reporters in the Senate subway on Tuesday as she leaves the same Senate GOP caucus meeting. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Lev Parnas, a Rudy Giuliani associate with ties to Ukraine, waits in Schumer’s office on Wednesday to pick up his gallery ticket to attend the impeachment trial. But his court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet later prevented him from watching the trial from the visitor gallery. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call) Alan Dershowitz, who is part of Trump’s legal team, arrives in the Capitol on Wednesday before the continuation of the impeachment trial. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) California Sen. Kamala Harris enters the Senate carriage entrance of the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Demonstrators calling for witnesses in the impeachment trial assemble on the East Front of the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker , right, arrives in the Capitol for Thursday’s session of the impeachment trial. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) A staffer carries multiple binders as he walks through the Senate Reception Room before the start of the impeachment trial on Thursday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call) Maine Sen. Susan Collins arrives for Thursday’s sessions of the impeachment trial. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)