Wheels Within Wheels?

This sounds like it's significant but there's no reason to believe witnesses are being called at this trial, so it's not clear this means much and Graham knows that. https://t.co/fx8cm8YhOU

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 18, 2019

Or Graham wants to put the fear of God into his fellow GOP Senators to pressure them to vote for a motion to dismiss against the likely ruling by Roberts.

Or:

“I don’t want a motion to dismiss. I want a vote on the articles themselves,” says Graham of a Senate impeachment trial.

— julie faye tsirkin (@julietsirkin) December 18, 2019

Lindsay understands he can't really block witnesses from testifying, or stop the trial from proceeding. Even Mitch McConnell understands that:

McConnell to @hughhewitt: “[J]ust one thing that may make senators impatient to get it over with is, under the, in an impeachment trial, they can’t speak. They have to sit there quietly and listen.”

“This’ll be good therapy for a number of them.”

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) December 18, 2019