The Canadian Press
At 80, Vermont’s Sen. Leahy ready to run impeachment trial
WASHINGTON — He’s known for prowling the Capitol with his camera or friends like the rock icon Bono. He’s played leading roles in fights over Supreme Court nominations, government surveillance of Americans and protecting his state’s dairy farms. Now, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is stepping into one of his most visible and physically grueling roles: presiding over former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial. Leahy, the Senate’s longest-serving current member, will be doing it after a brief health scare that saw him taken by ambulance to a hospital Tuesday evening, only to gavel the Senate into order Wednesday morning. “I had some muscle spasms,” Leahy, 80, told reporters the morning after feeling ill in his Capitol office. He was taken to nearby George Washington University…
