The Senate will begin President Trump
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“Both the House managers and the defense will have a period to prepare their legal instructions, just as they did in previous lawsuits.… Once the instructions are drafted, the presentation by the parties will begin the week of February 8. Schumer said from the Senate floor.
Schumer’s announcement comes after he announced earlier Friday that the house article of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate on Monday.
According to the agreement between Schumer and the Republican leader of the Senate Mitch McConnell
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Trump’s response to House’s article and preparatory letter will be due Feb. 2, and Trump’s preparatory letter will take place six days later.
The earliest trial that could begin is February 9, when the House’s rebuttal pending trial is also due.
A McConnell spokesman argued that the timeline is a victory for the GOP leader, who had planned to postpone the trial until mid-February.
Leader McConnell is pleased that Leader Schumer has agreed to the Republicans’ request for additional time during the preparatory phase. Especially given the fast and minimal process in the House, Republicans wanted to ensure that the next steps taken by the Senate respect former President Trump’s rights and due process, the Senate institution and the office of the presidency, ” said Doug Andres, a spokesperson. for McConnell.
According to the timeline proposed by McConnell, outlined for the GOP conference on a call Thursday, the trial would have started as early as Feb. 13.
Neither McConnell nor Schumer provided any details as to how long they thought the trial should take. Trump’s first impeachment trial in early 2020 took 21 days, although most senators do not expect the second trial to take that long.
Democrats are expected to use the delayed start for the second trial to confirm more of President Biden’s cabinet choices. As of Friday, Biden has only received two cabinet choices: Lloyd Austin
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Democrats had hoped to confirm both Janet Yellen
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“The Senate will continue to do other things for the American people, such as cabinet appointments and the COVID bill,” Schumer said.
Democrats and even Biden himself seemed open to delaying the trial until February as they tried to set up his administration.
“The more time we have to get started and face these crises, the better,” Biden said at the White House Friday.
The impeachment trial comes after the House made history when it voted to impeach Trump a second time, making him the first US president to ever be impeached more than once. The House article, which received the backing of 10 Republicans, accuses Trump of serious crimes and felonies for “willfully inciting violence against the United States government” after his supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6.
Trump addressed the crowd on Jan. 6, reiterating his disputed allegations of widespread voter fraud and warning them that “if you don’t fight that hard, you won’t have any more land.”
Trump then encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol, where then-Vice President Pence and lawmakers counted the votes of the electoral college. Although Trump promised to go to the Capitol with them, he went back to the White House instead.
At the end of the trial, it takes two-thirds of the vote in the Senate to condemn Trump. Although he is the third president to be impeached, none has ever been successfully convicted in a trial.
Several Republicans, including McConnell, have accused Trump of provoking the crowd that stormed the Capitol, but no one has said they will vote to condemn him.
Republicans doubt that more than a handful of their GOP colleagues will ultimately vote to condemn, and they seem increasingly confident that the trial will end with Trump’s acquittal.
“We have a little bit of an inkling of what the outcome will be. I mean, the Democrats didn’t even bother giving sworn testimony and holding hearings in Parliament this time. This is not a serious attempt,” said Sen. John Cornyn
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“It is likely to achieve the same practical goal with a lower voting threshold,” he said. “And I think not only is the threshold lower, I think it will also get you more Republican votes.”
Updated: 7:22 PM