...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is as of now including in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial rules a "Kill switch" that effectively allows for the president's legal team to seek an immediate verdict or dismissal of the case should Democrats engage in any shenanigans like they did in the House process.
...The revelation comes after the House finally late last week formally sent the Articles of Impeachment it adopted before Christmas-after holding them for more than a month without transmission-to the U.S. Senate, thereby triggering the start of a Senate trial.
...In so finally transmitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also named impeachment case managers-the Democrats who will present and manage the House's case to the Senate-last week.
...Sen. Josh Hawley, a freshman senator who emerged as a top ally of the president and had previously drafted a measure dismissing the charges if the House did not formally transmit them by changing Senate rules to do so, has said that the rules package for the impeachment trial includes a measure that allows for the president's legal team to quickly push for a summary judgment or dismissal at any time should things get wild.
...McConnell has had many other such end-run victories around the Democrats, and sources close to him expect this Senate impeachment trial will be no different.
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