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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jan 15, 2020, 09:45 PM Jan 2020

Impeachment Managers Deliver Charges to Senate, Paving the Way for Trial

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Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — A team of newly appointed House impeachment managers marched two charges against President Trump across the Capitol on Wednesday, delivering them to the Senate along with a formal notification that they were ready to begin only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.

The highly choreographed procession, hours after the House voted almost entirely along party lines to send the articles and appoint the managers, was the beginning of what promises to be a historic, if partisan, impeachment trial, a proceeding that has already opened divisions in the normally staid Senate.

The tribunal, the first impeachment trial to play out in a presidential election year, has the potential to shape Mr. Trump’s legacy, to stoke the country’s political polarization and to inject new uncertainty into the 2020 elections.

The 228-to-193 vote to adopt the articles and appoint the managers came almost a month after the House impeached Mr. Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, formally accusing him of seeking foreign election assistance from Ukraine and then trying to conceal his actions from a House inquiry. Only one Democrat, Representative Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, joined every Republican in voting “no.”



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Impeachment Managers Deliver Charges to Senate, Paving the Way for Trial (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 OP
Bi-partisanship is what republicants clamor for Harker Jan 2020 #1
Locking as a duplicate OKNancy Jan 2020 #2

Harker

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1. Bi-partisanship is what republicants clamor for
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 11:28 PM
Jan 2020

whenever they're in a minority.

A partisan impeachment or no impeachment.

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