The US House is preparing to vote to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate to start the historic trial. 9News
They are considering whether to allow a vote on such a motion to dismiss and another to subpoena testimony from new witnesses.
Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House last month on charges of abuse of power over pushing Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and obstruction of Congress in the probe. Key Republicans, Senator Susan Collins and Senator Mitt Romney, said they, too, would oppose a motion to dismiss the charges.
Romney said he wants to hear from John Bolton, the former national security adviser at the White House, who others have said raised alarms about the alternative foreign policy toward Ukraine being run led by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been meeting behind closed doors with GOP senators as they negotiate the terms of the trial.
McConnell is drafting an organising resolution that will outline the steps ahead. Approving it will be among the first votes senators take after they are sworn as jurors by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for the Court of Impeachment.McConnell is hesitant to call new witnesses who would prolong the trial. He prefers to model Trump's trial partly on the process used for then-President Bill Clinton's trial in 1999.
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been pursing theories about the Bidens, but other Republicans are cool to embrace his work. The claims against the Bidens are unfounded.
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