How a Senate presidential impeachment trial works!

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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.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/pomp-circumstance-silence-how-senate-presidential-impeachment-trial-works-n1100041

It would start with

a proclamation from the Senate's sergeant-at-arms:

"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

hould be found guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress

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

a presidential impeachment trial because of conflict of interest issues.

(The judge during Johnson's trial, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,

cast two tiebreaking votes.)

The Senate could also override Roberts' decisions

with a majority vote.

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."

See I told you so!