If the president can summarily reject all oversight and inquiry, the power to impeach is meaningless. Here he was daring Trump to lay out a real privilege to be tested in real time by the chief justice of the Supreme Court. At the end, Schiff asked not for conviction but for a fair trial — that is, for documents and witnesses. Russia has a constitution, not a bad one, he said, but it is meaningless because trials are not real or fair. ... Give America a fair trial.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2020 12:45 UTC