No looking at your phone! Senators banned from bringing devices into trial

By Susan Ferrechio

Published January 15, 2020 4:32pm ET

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No looking at your phone! Senators banned from bringing devices into trial — Senators will not be allowed to bring electronic devices onto the Senate floor for the duration of the impeachment trial, leaving the usually multitasking lawmakers bereft of cell phones and laptops for hours at a time over several weeks. “We will not have our electronic devices,” Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said Monday about […]

Senators will not be allowed to bring electronic devices onto the Senate floor for the duration of the impeachment trial, leaving the usually multitasking lawmakers bereft of cell phones and laptops for hours at a time over several weeks.

“We will not have our electronic devices,” Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said Monday about the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, which is set to begin on Jan. 21.

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