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2h ago 09:00 Evening summary

That’s it from me today. My west coast colleague, Maanvi Singh, will take over the blog for the next few hours.

Here’s where the day stands so far:

Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff proposed limiting witness depositions in the Senate trial to one week, mirroring Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.

Senate Republicans appear increasingly confident they will be able to block witness testimony in the trial, which will come up for a vote tomorrow.

Some Democratic senators are calling on Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts to break a tie on witness testimony if the final vote is 50-50, but it seems unlikely Roberts would take such a step.

Roberts declined to read a question from Rand Paul that named the alleged whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry. But a group of Republican senators later submitted a similar question with the alleged whistleblower’s name removed, which Roberts did read.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi said an acquittal would not vindicate Trump if the trial did not include witness testimony, an argument that will likely be repeated by many Democrats in the days to come.

Maanvi will have more coming up, so stay tuned.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/30/trump-impeachment-democrats-john-bolton-alan-dershowitz-trial-live-updates