Veteran House GOP impeachment manager warns Democrats: 'Huge mistake' to hold articles as leverage
by Susan Ferrechio
| December 19, 2019 03:59 PM
A House Republican who has presented several impeachment cases in the Senate is warning Democrats their threat to withhold the articles passed against President Trump to gain political leverage may backfire.
“If they are trying to use that as leverage to get the Senate to call witnesses, that will be a huge mistake on their part,†Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, told the Washington Examiner.
Sensenbrenner, 76, has managed four House impeachments, one of them against President Bill Clinton in 1998 and three involving the removal of federal judges. He is the former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
“From my experience with previous impeachments, not just the Clinton one, but also the judicial ones, the Senate really dislikes House members telling the Senate what to do and how to do it," Sensenbrenner said. "They do that at their great peril.â€
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