House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) displays a signed article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The House will deliver the impeachment article against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday.
The lawsuit will start the process for the second trial the former president faced on charges of serious crimes and misdemeanors. Although Trump has already left the White House, the Senate can vote to prevent him from taking office again if he decides to condemn him.
The House earlier this month accused Trump of inciting an insurrection against the government by igniting a crowd that invaded the Capitol on January 6. The rebellion, which interrupted Congressional counting of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, left five dead, including a police officer from the State Capitol.
Speaking after Schumer, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Expressed concerns that Trump would not have enough time to mount a defense. He asked the House to send the article on Thursday to guarantee “a complete and fair process”.
Trump hired South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers to defend him during the trial. The nine impeachment managers who will present the House case are Democratic MPs Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Diana DeGette of Colorado, David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Joaquin Castro of Texas, Eric Swalwell and Ted Lieu of California, Stacey Plaskett, delegate of the US Virgin Islands, Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and Joe Neguse of Colorado.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who did not say on Thursday when her chamber will forward the article to the Senate, argued that administrators would not need to prepare as much evidence for the second trial as they did last year.
“This year, the whole world has witnessed the incitement of the president, the execution of his call to action and the violence that has been used,” the California Democrat told reporters on Thursday.
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