Table Of Content
- Senate now voting on a GOP motion to adjourn until April 30
- Reminder: 45 Senate Republicans voted to dismiss Trump impeachment without trial
- How can the Senate hold a trial if Trump is gone?
- ‘David Pecker worshiped Trump’: Catch and Kill architect takes the stand in Hush Money Trial
- WATCH: House authorizes Biden impeachment inquiry along party lines
- Senators are now voting on whether to go into closed session
With Mayorkas, at least they gave dear leader Trump and the party’s MAGA base something. “During this same time period, Rudy Giuliani and Russian agents, sanctioned by Trump’s Treasury Department, were peddling disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin said in a statement at the time. Comer angrily responded, in an interview with HuffPost, that Raskin didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.
Senate now voting on a GOP motion to adjourn until April 30
There was a small possibility the vote could take place this week, but Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., both said the vote — if it happens — would occur “next week” as the leaders left a closed-door meeting of House Republicans. Senate Democrats hope to quickly dismiss the House’s articles of impeachment against Mayorkas this week and move on to other matters. House Republicans muscled through a vote to impeach Mayorkas over his handling of the border on Feb. 13, exactly one week after their first attempt to impeach him collapsed spectacularly on the floor. While it has been 148 years since the last successful impeachment of a Cabinet member, there have been several failed attempts in that time. Opening an impeachment investigation into a Cabinet member of the opposing party has become especially common in the past two decades.
Reminder: 45 Senate Republicans voted to dismiss Trump impeachment without trial
“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games,” he said in a statement. Senators will remain in their seats for the trial and will vote from their seats. They must lock up their phones in their respective party cloakrooms during the trial. Republicans, however, are expected to object to this, and then the Senate will enter an unstructured process, where Schumer would likely move to immediately table one of the articles. After a floor debate over whether the House could impeach an official who had resigned, the House ended up doing just that by voting unanimously to impeach Belknap. “THE DISGRACED SECRETARY,” read The New York Times headline the following day.
How can the Senate hold a trial if Trump is gone?
House Republicans lost five seats in the 1998 election a few weeks before impeaching President Bill Clinton. Democrats made those surprising gains even though the party that controls the White House usually struggles in midterm elections. The impeachment inquiry vote will present a political challenge for many of the 17 Republicans in districts that Biden won. Several of them, along with other center-right GOP lawmakers, have been skeptical about proceeding with an inquiry. Before the floor vote, the resolution to authorize the inquiry is set to go before the House Rules Committee on Tuesday, even as the GOP has failed to come up with direct evidence of wrongdoing by Biden.
House impeachment inquiry enters crucial week as Republicans prepare for key vote - CNN
House impeachment inquiry enters crucial week as Republicans prepare for key vote.
Posted: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
“The House has no choice if it’s going to follow its constitutional responsibility to formally adopt an impeachment inquiry on the floor so that when the subpoenas are challenged in court, we will be at the apex of our constitutional authority,” Johnson told reporters. Johnson and the rest of the Republican leadership team had been contemplating in recent weeks whether to hold a formal vote on their monthslong inquiry into the president, which has centered on the business dealings of other family members. Their investigation so far has yet to produce any direct evidence of wrongdoing by Biden himself. Johnson and the rest of the Republican leadership team had been contemplating in recent weeks whether to hold a formal vote on their monthslong inquiry into the president, which has centered on the business dealings of other family members. The decision to hold a vote came as House Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team faced growing pressure to show progress in what has become a nearly yearlong probe centered around the business dealings of Biden’s family members.
"For the sake of the Senate's integrity, and to protect impeachment for those rare cases we truly need it, senators should dismiss today's charges," he said on the floor. Talks to get an agreement on how long senators will debate the impeachment and a deal on a number of votes on points of order were blocked last night after Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., objected to the proposal, a Senate source said. Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside over the impeachment trial — that’s only for sitting presidents. Because Mayorkas is a Cabinet member, Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., will preside. In January 2021, 45 Senate Republicans voted to dismiss Donald Trump’s Jan. 6-related impeachment without a trial. That trial only occurred because they lacked the majority vote needed to block it, with five Republicans joining all Democrats against dismissing it.
With her was Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of the few lawmakers to join her effort. Far from backing down, Mr. Katko on Wednesday told The Syracuse Post-Standard that Mr. Trump should not be the leader of the Republican Party. “It would have been a lot easier if I didn’t vote on the impeachment vote, but I did it because it was the right thing to do,” he said. The clownish lead investigator, House Oversight Committee chair and Fox News regular Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, last month told donors in a fundraising letter — notice a pattern here, Republican leaders playing to monied interests? — that instead of seeking Biden’s impeachment, he’ll send a criminal referral (again, crimes TBD) to the Justice Department. The hope is that the department is about to come under new management — by a reelected Trump, Mr. “I am your retribution” himself — that will welcome the allegations.
Sen. Thom Tillis says he expects trial to finish by midafternoon
Republicans, who stood unanimously behind Mr. Trump in 2019 during his first impeachment, were split over the charge this time. The House impeached President Trump for inciting an insurrection against the government, and 10 Republicans joined Democrats to do so. Senator Mitch McConnell said he would not agree to use emergency powers to bring the Senate back into session for a trial before Jan. 19. The inquiry was first opened by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who announced it without a vote. Since then, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has issued subpoenas for President Biden's son Hunter and his brother James, as well as subpoenas to individuals with connections to Hunter Biden. Johnson said the House is at an "inflection point" and accused the White House of "stonewalling" the investigation, which was launched by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy back in September.
Senators are now voting on whether to go into closed session
Capitol on Wednesday, saying he would not be appearing for his scheduled private deposition that morning. The president’s son defended himself against years of GOP attacks and said his father has had no financial involvement in his business affairs. Most of the Republicans reluctant to back the impeachment push have also been swayed by leadership’s recent argument that authorizing the inquiry will give them better legal standing as the White House has questioned the legal and constitutional basis for their requests for information.
The new comments come as leaders have projected growing confidence that they have the votes to officially launch the impeachment investigation. A handful of vulnerable moderates who previously had expressed strong reservations about an impeachment inquiry now say they support it due to the White House’s intransigence. On Sept. 12, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy unilaterally launched an impeachment inquiry into Biden over his family’s business dealings after Republicans, with their thin majority, conceded they didn’t have the votes to pass it on the floor. WASHINGTON — Republican leaders said Tuesday the House will likely vote to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden next week — the last week the chamber is scheduled to be in session before lawmakers leave for the holidays. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House will vote next week on formally authorizing its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday, asserting Republicans have “no choice” but to push ahead as the White House has rebuffed their requests for information. Romney wouldn’t say whether he’d support a vote to table or dismiss the impeachment articles from the outset of the trial, saying he wanted to look at the legal process.
But he went a different route this week and launched the probe unilaterally, though it’s possible he could seek a vote later on. The maneuver shielded the Republicans in swing districts from having to cast that vote to start an impeachment investigation, though many said they would have voted yes. The freshmen lawmaker, along with other likely holdouts like Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., were offered private briefings from leadership this week in order to assuage any concerns they had about moving forward with an inquiry. "My vote to impeach our sitting president is not a fear-based decision. I am not choosing a side; I am choosing truth," one of those Republicans, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, said on the House floor before Wednesday's vote. The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives delivered the historic rebuke to Trump on Wednesday afternoon — exactly one week after his supporters stormed the U.S.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday named nine Democrats as managers of the impeachment trial of President Trump on charges of inciting a violent mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol, where rioters ransacked the seat of American government and killed a Capitol Police officer. The House adopted a single article of impeachment, voting 232 to 197 to charge Mr. Trump with “inciting violence against the government of the United States” and requesting his immediate removal from office and disqualification from ever holding one again. The impeachment inquiry is looking into whether Biden improperly used his position of power to enrich himself and his family, whether he used his influence to pressure the Department of Justice to help his son Hunter Biden, and how involved he was in his family’s foreign business dealings. With approval from the House, Republicans are pushing to strengthen their legal standing in court. While the White House has criticized GOP efforts as politicized, it has also gone so far as to dismiss some subpoenas.
The resolution was filed by Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and will be marked up on Tuesday, Dec. 12, teeing up a likely vote on Wednesday. A person familiar with the arrangement said Hunter Biden sent around $4,000 to his father in three installments to repay him for car payments on a Ford Raptor truck, which the Daily Mail reported in 2021. Despite Comer's tightly choreographed rollout -- complete with a video monologue in which he describes the finding as further evidence of "blatant corruption" by the Biden family -- the committee released few details.
Outside the Capitol, red, white and blue bunting had been hung to adorn the building for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, which was to take place a week from Wednesday. “He specifically told the crowd to protest peacefully and patriotically. Nearly every Democrat spoke out in support of impeachment and a handful of Republicans pledged to join them.
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