Why not? And remember; Obama wasn't impeached.
The Republicans changed the rules during the Obama administration.
Why should the rules go back to the 90s?
Because the Republicans were planning to use them against Obama, and wouldn't have changed them if they'd known that it was a Republican who would actually get impeached?
Seriously?
Tom
What ARE you talking about? Unlike this last go-round, idiotic calls for Obama's impeachment from the weird (birther, anybody?) were shouted down BY REPUBLICANS. Nothing was ever done by the House, and CERTAINLY the Republicans never pulled what Pelosi has.
They certainly had no chance, and no wish, to 'change the rules' regarding impeachment or Senate trials.
But YOU folks have done so. The House impeached Trump. The meetings and the vote were purely partisan. The Republicans weren't allowed to participate in most of the secret sessions, never mind call any witnesses. Now the House wants to dictate to the Senate how to run the trial?
I don't think so. If it turns out that the Senate does this exactly according to the rules used during the Clinton trial, and does what was done then....that is, vote right down partisan lines, you people have only yourselves to blame.
And you HAVE ensured Trump's win in 2020. I mean, really. I voted for Trump last time holding my nose. It was a vote against Hillary more than a vote for Trump, but if I'm around to vote this coming fall, well, it'll still be a vote against whoever is running against him more than it is a vote for him, but he's not done a bad job as president at all so far.
In spite of all the chicken littles on the left.