The impeachment process of US President Donald Trump in the Senate officially began today, since The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to officially send the resolution to the upper house of Congress and since members of the House of Representatives have been appointed who will represent that resolution in the further proceedings, the Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Members of the House of Representatives, the so-called "managers", ceremoniously introduced the impeachment resolution in the Senate.
That resolution will have the role of "indictment" in the further process against Donald Trump.
After the introduction of the resolution, the leader of the seven-member team of democratic "managers" Adam Schiff read its content out loud.
In December, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president for abuse of office and obstruction of Congress.
After the impeachment resolution was read aloud, the Senate officially accepted it.
Chief Justice John Roberts will be sworn in during the day, and a hundred senators are expected to do so as well.
The impeachment process of Trump will continue on Tuesday, January 21 at 13.00:XNUMX p.m. local time, the leader of the Republican majority in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, announced today.
Then the substantive discussion will begin.
Today, US senators were sworn in before US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the first act of this process.
The impeachment resolution is an "indictment" that will be represented by the "managers" of the House of Representatives who play the role of prosecutors.
The White House has its own defense - lawyers Pat Cipolloni and Jay Sekulow will represent President Trump.
Senators are jurors, and the trial is presided over by the President of the Supreme Court.
The rules of the trial are determined by the majority, so even now the Republicans will decide whether witnesses will be produced at the trial, which the Democrats insist on.
In order to adopt some rules, a simple majority of 51 votes is required.
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton has indicated that he would respond to a binding subpoena for testimony from the Senate.
The president can be removed from office if two-thirds (67) of the hundred senators vote for it, which is unlikely because the majority of the Senate is held by Republicans.
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