Confused about Impeachment and subsequent Trial

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2. It would all depend on the rules agreed by a majority of the Senate.

Just like the House Rules Committee determined and debated (again) and voted on the articles of impeachment, the Senate will basically do the same thing. McConnell will probably set the rules himself, although when Clinton was impeached, the Majority and Minority Leaders decided on them together. If he gets 51 Senators to vote "Aye" to them, those will be the rules. If he wanted the rules to give the Chief Justice the right to conduct voir dire on the Senators, he could put that up for a vote. He won't and if he did, the vast majority would vote against the rule.

The parliamentary hoohaw in the Senate is at least as tedious as in the House. They can delay even longer but they probably will want to get the impeachment trial over with.