Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said that if the House votes to impeach President Donald Trump, the earliest his chamber could take up the issue is one day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
In a memo sent to his caucus Friday, McConnell said the Senate — currently in recess — isn’t scheduled to reconvene for full business until Jan. 19.
There are two pro forma sessions scheduled for Tuesday and Friday. The chamber would need all 100 senators to agree to take up an impeachment trial during those meetings — an unlikely prospect.
Congressional Democrats have called for impeachment proceedings against Trump in the days since a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol during a joint session to certify Biden’s election win. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., assistance House speaker, said the House’s vote on impeachment could come by the middle of next week.
CNN reported an impeachment resolution could be introduced Monday, the next time the House meets. If the House votes to impeach Trump — a process that likely would be much shorter than the 2019 impeachment proceedings — the issue would then move to the Senate for a trial.
A Senate impeachment trial could proceed beyond the end of Trump’s term in office, by which time Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer would be in charge of the upper chamber after Democrats’ two wins in Georgia last week.
The Senate would need a two-thirds majority vote to convict Trump. After that, the Senate could vote on whether to prevent Trump from holding office in the future with a simple majority.
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McConnell: Senate can’t take up impeachment until Jan. 19
Typical weak spineless Republican response. Instead of attacking the radical left for their theft of the election they cower in the corner like the cowards they are. I for one am sick of this, and can not and will not support this worthless pathetic party any longer.
Maybe not. If Mitch knows there are not enough votes to vote 2/3 majority and the Jan 19 vote loses. The impeachment goes away. Cannot do double jeaopardy for the same offense and only an idiot would impeach a President who already left office. If they do it after the election then they can kiss the Senate and the House good-bye in 2022, unless their computer programs become our new rulers and deciders of elections, not rational human people who can priove they are entitled to vote legally.
You’re not the only one, DONE FOR GOOD, with the feckless cowards known as the GOP.
the gop is dead to me!
Deep State Mitch and his buddies like Lindsey and John Thune.
This guy is so useless … he can’t even do something that could save his own treasonous butt.
Please don’t use anymore taxpayer dollars on these sham proceedings!!
That’s all they Do. WASTE OUR TAX dollars.