Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar is one of the four presidential candidates who've been pulled off the hectic pace of the campaign trail for a much more solemn task: jury duty in the U.S. Senate.
Klobuchar said, "I am used to going practically 24/7, town hall after town hall, answering questions, and then all of a sudden you're at like a digital detox. You're sitting in there, you can't look at your phone, you can't communicate, really. It's a moment of reflection about why I'm doing this and what our democracy is all about."
Klobuchar joined her fellow Democrats in a marathon Senate session Tuesday night, attempting to amend the rules of President Trump's impeachment trial.
Senate Democrats tried unsuccessfully to admit witnesses and evidence into the trial, even — at the end of the night — floating the idea of allowing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to decide which witnesses to call.
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"We finally said, okay, let's let Roberts decide what witnesses and what evidence is relevant to this proceeding. They said no. And I think to me that just says it all," Klobuchar told reporters
Klobuchar is relying on a slew of local lawmakers to represent her while she's absent from the campaign trail. The other three senators who've been pulled away from the race — Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Michael Bennet — have also tapped surrogates to fill in for them while the trial is ongoing.
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