The U.S. Senate is due to hold a trial to consider whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, after the House of Representatives voted in December to impeach him for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election
What happens next and why is Trump unlikely to be removed from office?The founders of the United States feared presidents abusing their powers, so they included in the Constitution a process for removing one from office.
Former President Gerald Ford, while in Congress, famously said:"An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." The House Intelligence Committee investigated whether Trump abused his power to pressure Ukraine to open probes that would benefit him politically, holding weeks of closed-door testimony and televised hearings before issuing a formal evidence report.
House members act as the prosecutors; the senators as jurors; the chief justice of the United States presides. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has thrown cold water on that idea, saying House Democrats should have secured the testimony of Bolton and Mulvaney during their investigation.
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