Commentary: Lisa Murkowski breaks from the GOP pack on Trump's impeachment trial
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 2019
3 minutes
Breaking with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told a TV interviewer in her home state this week that the Senate shouldn't work "hand-in-glove with the defense" on President Trump's impeachment trial.
Congress as a co-equal branch of government - what a concept. But Murkowski was only half right in her critique.
McConnell's obeisance to the White House deserves every bit of scorn that it gets, and infinitely more from his fellow Senate Republicans than it appears to be receiving
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