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Greater clarity regarding the future of President Trump's impeachment could be derived Friday when the US Senate reconvenes and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is likely to speak on the floor

Greater clarity of the future of Trump's impeachment could be derived Friday when the US Senate reconvenes and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is likely to speak on the floor. But the prospects for any answers on when the trial will begin or what its parameters might be appear slim.

McConnell, however, is disinclined to do anything related to the impeachment trial -- which he has said he is not in a rush to convene -- until Pelosi delivers the articles.Lost on the legal theories or opinion pieces pushing for McConnell to start the trial unilaterally are the sheer number of complicated procedural steps it would take to actually make that happen, people familiar with the process said.

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