Even if Democrats don’t yet have the necessary votes for impeachment, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat isn’t ready to phone it in on the trial.

“It isn’t just the president who’s on trial in an impeachment proceeding,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois told CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday. “The Senate is on trial, and we have a constitutional responsibility.”


Speaking on “Face the Nation,” Durbin expressed concern that some of his colleagues appear to have already made their decisions on the impeachment proceedings — before the trial has even begun.