Horn: Senate should put partisanship aside in impeachment trial

TULSA — Oklahoma's lone Congressional Democrat has called on the United States Senate to take the “ethical and legal questions the House has sent over seriously,” and eliminate political partisanship from the process of impeachment.

“The bottom line is, the public is counting on our senators to look past partisanship, and to hold a fair trial,” she told KRMG Wednesday.

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Horn spoke with our reporter shortly after leaving the House floor, where she had voted for the resolution to transmit two articles of impeachment to the Senate.

She's been known to vote across party lines, as she did earlier this month when she voted against a non-binding resolution that would limit the president's ability to take military action against Iran.

She voted that way, she says, because there's “a right way and a wrong way” for Congress to reassume its Constitutional role in determining when the nation goes to war.

“My vote on that resolution was not a vote to give this, or any admistration, a blank check,” she said. “But I think that there is a right way to do this, and a wrong way to do this. And we have to make sure that administrations and presidents have the ability to respond to immediate and urgent threats, or to respond... when we have been attacked.”

“I am frustrated by partisanship taking over knowing what, doing what is best,” she added.