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Next phase of Trump impeachment set for next week
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IANS | 22 Jan, 2021
The next phase of the second impeachment of former President Donald
Trump is set to be launched next week when the Senate receives the
charges against him from the House of Representatives accusing him of
instigating the January 6 storming of the Capitol by his supporters,
Democratic Party's Senate Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday.
He
said on the Senate floor that the Articles of Impeachment, as the
charges heet voted by the House on January 13 is known, will be sent by
the House to the Senate on Monday, paving the way for the judicial-style
trial of Trump.
At the impeachment trial, two-thirds of the Senators acting as jurors will have to vote to convict Trump.
The
Senate is divided equally with each party having 50 members and the
Democrats will have to get 17 Republicans to defect on the issue if
Trump is to be convicted.
The first impeachment failed last year when the Democrats could not get the two-thirds vote.
Speaker
Nancy Pelosi ceremoniously signed the document that accuses him of
instigating an insurrection in his speech to supporters before Congress
was to begin the ratification of the electoral college votes confirming
Joe Biden as the President-elect. He is also accused of questioning the
legitimacy to Biden's election.
But she has held off sending the
Articles of Impeachment to the Senate till the Democrats can exert
control over the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris presiding
over it with a casting vote.
After Trump's speech urging them to
march to Congress, a section of his supporters forced their way into the
Capitol building while the process of counting the votes was in
progress and broke into the Senate chamber and Pelosi's office.
Republican Party's Senate Leader Mitch McConnell asked for a two-week delay to allow Trump to prepare his defence.
Schumer,
who has not agreed so far, said: "The Senate will conduct a trial on
the impeachment of Donald Trump. It will be a fair trial. But make no
mistake, there will be a trial."
He did not say when the trial
will begin. The Democrats would want a quick trial and put away the
issue as they will have to move quickly on confirming the high-level
appointments made by Biden and move his agenda forward.
McConnell and some Republicans have blamed Trump for the riot which left five people dead, including a police officer.
McConnell
said in the Senate on Tuesday: "They were provoked by the president and
other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence" to stop
a function of the Congress.
But he has yet to indicate if he
would vote to convict. Many Republicans have said that the impeachment
will only deepen the polarisation of the country.
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