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FIFTH UPDATE: The Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on the impeachment charge of inciting the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol, bringing to an end a trial that lasted just five days. The Senate voted 57-43 to convict Trump, short of the 67 votes needed. Seven Republicans joined with 48 Democrats and two independents in favor of conviction. This is the second time that Trump has been acquitted of impeachment charges. On Jan. 13, he became the first president to be impeached twice. The Republicans who voted to convict were Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Pat Toomey. In Trump’s last impeachment trial , Romney was the only Republican to vote to convict. Related Story Jimmy Kimmel Says Mitch McConnell "Blew It" With Trump Acquittal Vote During Impeachment Trial Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the case against Trump was “open and shut,” calling it a “textbook example” of an … [Read more...] about Senate Votes To Acquit Donald Trump On Impeachment Charge Of Inciting Capitol Siege

Here we go again! After having two presidential impeachment trials in the United States’ first 231 years, the Senate is now about to start its second trial of Donald Trump in just over 12 months. While we all developed great expertise from taking the 2020 class Trump Impeachment 101, there are all sorts of new issues for the 2021 version of the course. So let’s do a lightning round of the major constitutional issues that you need to know to be an expert and impress your friends at your next Zoom happy hour. Donald Trump is no longer President. Can there be an impeachment trial after he’s left office? This one is straightforward: Yes, he can be tried after he’s left office. The Constitution makes this eminently clear by the use of the word “all” in this sentence: “The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.” There is no equivocation in that sentence. President Trump was properly impeached by the House because he was the … [Read more...] about Why Trump Isn’t Being Charged with Treason

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sat at his desk, rarely if ever distracted from the case being laid out against Donald Trump by House impeachment managers this week. That was certainly not the case with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who at one point tapped a pencil on his desk, and at another fidgeted his fingers. On Thursday, he left the chamber to go to the cloak room for blocks of time. During the trial, the Senate cameras are fixed on the raised rostrum and whoever is speaking at that moment; the dozen or so reporters in the chamber, however, are fixated on the movements and reactions of the senators themselves. Gathered in the third-floor gallery just above the rostrum, the members of the media covering the trial in person have a vantage point not captured by the cameras. The journalists are seated in the press gallery on the opposite end of the chamber from the cameras, so they don’t even have views of whoever is speaking, but that is not what many of … [Read more...] about Donald Trump Impeachment Trial: Reporters In Chamber Scrutinize Senators For Signs Of Attention And Distraction

Here we go again! After having two presidential impeachment trials in the United States’ first 231 years, the Senate is now about to start its second trial of Donald Trump in just over 12 months. While we all developed great expertise from taking the 2020 class Trump Impeachment 101, there are all sorts of new issues for the 2021 version of the course. So let’s do a lightning round of the major constitutional issues that you need to know to be an expert and impress your friends at your next Zoom happy hour. Donald Trump is no longer President. Can there be an impeachment trial after he’s left office? This one is straightforward: Yes, he can be tried after he’s left office. The Constitution makes this eminently clear by the use of the word “all” in this sentence : “The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.” There is no equivocation in that sentence. President Trump was properly impeached by the House because he was the President at the time of … [Read more...] about Why Trump Isn’t Being Charged With Treason

UPDATED with Day 4 details: The prosecution has rested in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump , and now it’s the defense’s turn. The proceedings in the U.S. Senate are set to continue Friday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT. Day 4 of the trial featured the Democrats impeachment managers summarizing their incitement case against POTUS 45 for the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Defense attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen begin their case Friday, after the latter told reporters that they should wrap by Saturday.. Follow the live hearing here, via C-SPAN: PREVIOUSLY, February 9 AM: The second impeachment trial of now former President Donald Trump is set to begin Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT in the U.S. Senate, in the same building where just more than a month ago a pro-Trump mob uprising led to five deaths and an article of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection” drafted against Trump. Trevor Noah Says Impeachment Presentation … [Read more...] about How To Watch The Second Impeachment Trial Of Donald Trump Online & On TV: Day 4