Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., argued on Sunday that the Senate has “a constitutional responsibility” to hold the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts presided over former President Trump's first impeachment trial a year ago for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected any notion that former President Trump is headed for a second acquittal in the Senate during his impeachment trial.
By a slight majority, Americans want the Senate to convict former President Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial, according to two new national polls. But both surveys show an extremely wide partisan divide over whether Trump should be convicted.
The upcoming impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump is set to be highly politicized, and decisions by senators on both sides about how they vote are almost certain to be made more fundamentally on political calculations rather than on the facts.
Former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial is set to begin next week as he faces allegations of inciting an insurrection at the Capitol that took place on Jan. 6, the same day Trump spoke at a massive rally and encouraged a protest, claiming there was fraud in the 2020 election.
Few Senate Republicans have indicated a willingness to vote against Trump, making the 67-vote threshold required to convict him a dim proposition for Democratic leaders.
The House impeachment managers on Tuesday morning filed their pre-trial brief in their case against former President Donald Trump, previewing the argument they will make against him in the Senate trial set to start in one week.
High-profile civil rights attorney David Schoen, who before Jeffrey Epstein's death was in discussions to join his legal team, will be one of the two top members of former President Donald Trump's legal team for his impeachment trial, which is set to start in earnest in the Senate next week.