Word: trialing
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...staff is rash to ask the Senate to dismiss the impeachment charges and avoid a full trial. The president lied under oath and it is the Senate's responsibility to hear the facts and decide whether that lying constitutes a "high crime." Additionally, only in a full trial might the case for the President's obstruction of justice come to light...
...House proceedings were admittedly rancorous. Now, however, the Senate has the chance to do the right thing and follow constitutional procedure by putting the president on trial. Senators should not bow to public opinion by trying to find the quickest...
After a two-day trial featuring appearances by both Roy and Martin as witnesses, Judge Judith Fabricant of the Middlesex Superior Court ruled that Roy's account of Martin's tenure battle was "partly false, but substantially true...
Nearly a year after the crude details of President Clinton's affair with Monica S. Lewinsky first surfaced in the media, the president has been impeached and the Senate is poised to begin a presidential trial for the second time in our history. The farce that began last January has sickened the nation: From the president's stone-faced lying on television to Kenneth W. Starr's viciously partisan inquisition to the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the Republican leadership, there are no heroes in this sorry episode in our nation's history...
...this point, the start of a trial before the Senate seems inevitable. The proposal by Sens. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) to allow a preliminary vote on the merit of the charges against the president before the commencement of trial proceedings does not appear likely to succeed. Yet we hope the Senate will vote to end the trial soon after it has begun, whether by a motion to dismiss the charges or, if necessary, a compromise censure resolution...