How
a Senate presidential impeachment trial works!
The
likely impeachment trial of trump
would
be just the third of a president in the nation's history.
It would start with
"All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of
imprisonment,
while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the
Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against
Donald john trump."
It would end with senators voting on whether the president s
John
Roberts, the chief justice of the United
States,
would preside over the trial, but his role would be more limited
than
that of a judge in a traditional trial.
He would rule on evidentiary questions
or
he could pass that role off to the Senate
and have it vote on those questions.
If there's a 50-50 split, Roberts could act as a tiebreaking
vote.
That's a role typically played in the Senate by the vice
president,
who is the president of the Senate, but the vice president can't
do that in
(The judge during Johnson's trial, Chief Justice Salmon P.
Chase,
cast two tiebreaking votes.)
The Senate could also override Roberts' decisions
McConnell, meanwhile, told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Thursday
that
he's working in
"total coordination"
with the White House.
"Exactly how we go forward
I'm going to coordinate
with the president's lawyers,
so there won't be any difference
between us on how to do this,"
McConnell said.
"My hope is there won't be a single Republican
who votes for either of these articles of impeachment."
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I told you so!
