Senators to be quiet, unplugged for Trump impeachment trial

Washington • No cellphones. No talking. No escape.That's the reality during the Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment." After that, 100 senators will sit at their desks for hours on end to hear from House prosecutors, Trump's defense team and possibly a series of witnesses.The first time the proclamation was used, in the 1868 trial of President Andrew Johnson, l