`Our future is not assured`: Schiff issues stark warning at impeachment trial
(The Guardian United States)

Seven managers have 24 hours over three days to present their case before Trump´s team offers rebuttalStriving to make himself heard across partisan lines, the lead impeachment prosecutor, Adam Schiff, filled his opening argument against Donald Trump on the Senate floor on Wednesday with invitations, warnings and appeals designed to win Republican backing for a substantial trial with a full airing of the charges against the president.Using flowing evocations of constitutional history, the global promise of US democracy, and the stakes should it all be allowed to slip, Schiff framed his story of Trump´s wrongdoing as a national crisis demanding a nonpartisan remedy. Continue reading...