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WASHINGTON — Senator Rand Paul clashed publicly on Thursday with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. after the Kentucky Republican tried and failed to ask a question at President Trump’s impeachment trial that would have named the person widely thought to be the whistle-blower whose complaint formed the basis for the charges. In a striking […]

Senator Lamar Alexander this week at the Capitol. He was one of four Republicans considered critical to the question of whether to call witnesses.Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, said late Thursday that he would vote against considering new evidence in President Trump’s impeachment trial, a strong indication that Republicans

“Many of you may come to conclude, or may have already concluded, that the call was less than perfect,” Mr. Ray said on Monday. “It would have been better in attempting to spur action by a foreign government in coordinating law enforcement with our government to have done so through proper channels.” However, Mr. Ray

At one point, Eric Herschmann, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, implored senators to consider the president’s record of accomplishments — launching into a long, campaign-style litany of trade pacts sealed, unemployment rates falling and miles of wall built on the southwestern border — effectively arguing that those factors should offset the charges against him. “If

Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s lawyers, has made a simple case to the senators: The president is under attack, and they must defend him. As he describes it, the impeachment inquiry is just the latest iteration of relentless efforts by the president’s enemies to undercut and unseat him. Like the F.B.I.’s investigation of whether

DES MOINES — Four Democratic presidential candidates hoping for breakout performances in the Iowa caucuses next week spent Thursday in Washington listening to testimony in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. But the president himself headed to Des Moines for a rally to fire up his supporters before the caucuses on Monday. It was

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman worked hand in hand in Ukraine last year to help Rudolph W. Giuliani dig up damaging information about President Trump’s political rivals, an effort at the center of the impeachment trial. But in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, their recent split was on display as a dispute erupted between

Patrick Philbin, a deputy White House counsel, on Saturday at the Capitol.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times Patrick Philbin, a deputy White House counsel, has quickly emerged as one of President Trump’s leading defenders on the Senate floor, jumping up to answer some of the most pointed questions from senators. His last name quickly drew jokes

This was Iowa caucus night back in the mid-1970s. And these are members of the national media covering the voting. It was so unusual to see national media in Iowa back then that people actually paid to watch them. “The Democratic Party charged $15 a head for people to watch the media watch the people.”

Some House lawmakers, fresh off votes across the Capitol, arrived on the floor of the Senate chamber to watch the proceedings. Representatives Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, both Democratic freshmen, could be seen standing by the doors behind the Republican desks. When a staff member gently pointed them to the