Posted on 01/09/2021 10:51:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his Republican colleagues in the upper chamber that the earliest a second impeachment trial of President Trump would begin is January 20th, the day President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office.
House Democrats are planning to impeach Trump with a single impeachment article charging him with 'incitement of insurrection' as anger swells over the ransacking of the United States Capitol by a mob inspired by the president.
Democrats are demanding that Trump resign or face impeachment while just a handful of Republicans signaled they are willing to consider voting in favor of removing the president or barring him from office for life.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has demanded that the president resign while her fellow Republican, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, has said that he will 'definitely consider' any articles of impeachment brought by the House.
The move to impeach Trump is on a hyper-fast track after Wednesday's Capitol riot – with the article set to be introduced Monday.
A draft of the article prepared by Reps. David Cicilline, Ted Lieu, and Jamie Raskin states that, 'Incited by Trump, a mob unlawfully breached the Capitol,' injured law enforcement, menaced lawmakers and the vice president, and interfered with the count of the Electoral College.
The chances of Trump being convicted by the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate are slim. If the president is convicted, the Senate would then take up a vote on whether to disqualify Trump from ever holding office again.
In the cast, a simple majority of lawmakers is needed to ban the president from ever holding public office again.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
McConnell circulated a memo to the other members of his caucus in which he maps out how a Senate trial would work if the House of Representatives follows through on its threat to impeach Trump.
In the memo, McConnell notes that the Senate will not reconvene for conventional business until January 19 - just a day before Biden’s inauguration.
The Senate will reconvene for two pro forma sessions on Tuesday and Friday that do not allow for substantive business to be conducted unless all 100 members unanimously decide to take up impeachment.
That is unlikely since there is a large faction of pro-Trump senators that would almost certainly object to taking up a trial.
yawn, whatever, they will never have the votes in the Senate. And plus we know they wont even bother, and this is bluster.
Nancy Pelosi is doin’ her late daddy proud.
Why post this crap.
It’s distraction. Irrelevant.
Exactly, thank you
Parler
@Marklevinshow
5 hours ago
The media pushing impeachment. Look at the NeverTrumper Republicans they’re using to promote it.
I saw on The Liberty Daily that Dershowitz said: “It Would Be an ‘Honor and Privilege’ to Defend Trump if Dems Try to Impeach Again”
any senate impeachment hearing could not begin until 1pm on 20 January. Mr. Trump will be a private citizen at 12 noon, no longer president. A private citizen cannot be removed from public office.
Forget about it. Its just the DemoNaziCommies spewing forth more of their bullsheit smear tactics.
I very much appreciate this guy.
In times like this, he’s got clarity.
Never been a Congressional session held on Inauguration Day.
Dems are terrified of Trump, and moreover, horribly scared of Trump voters.
And Alcee Hastings (D-Florida Man) said, “Amen, bro!”
I absolutely believe that there should be a trial in the Senate and a lengthy one to boot.
This time we need witnesses
A ton of witnesses.
Sure, it could take a month or two, maybe three.
Sure, the business of the Senate would be delayed.
But for the good of the children. The children!!!!!
I am sure it would likely end in an acquittal.
But for the children!!!
I've been unable to find a connection between being impeached and not being allowed to hold office again.
Does anyone have any backup to this claim?
This is pure hatred and should be described as such.
“And plus we know they wont even bother, and this is bluster.”
It's bluster but of a certain type. Nancy won't go through with it because it would embolden Trump.
But the main reason she won't go through with it, is because she can shite all over Xiden's Inauguration as she has by letting us do her dirty work.
Xiden looks weak in his responses, even cheap, being led by the nose. That works in Madame Defarge's favor as she actually intends to 25A Xiden later this year. But there's no way she could actually do 25A twice in one year, she would be portrayed as equally senile and power-mad going into mid-terms. Even Beria couldn't dethrone Stalin.
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