GOP Senators’ Concerns Muddy Path to Dismiss Possible Impeachment Charges

Dissension among GOP senators could frustrate Mitch McConnell’s hopes of quickly dispensing with possible articles of impeachment

WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested that a vote by the Democratic-controlled House to impeach President Trump could be quickly dispensed with in his chamber. One way to do that: The Republican-controlled Senate could vote on a motion to dismiss the charges without a trial.

But despite the GOP’s 53-seat Senate majority, passage of such a motion—which would require at least 50 votes, plus the vice president, if needed—isn’t a certainty, since more than a dozen Senate Republicans have been at least...

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