BREAKING: Senate Votes Impeachment Trial Of Trump Is Constitutional
By a vote of 56 to 44, the Senate voted to move forward with former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and rejected the arguments made by Trump’s attorney’s who said that holding the trial of a former president is unconstitutional.
Six Republicans joined all 50 of the Democratic senators in voting to move forward with the trial.
According to CBS News, “But the vote also served as an indication of Mr. Trump’s eventual acquittal, since 17 GOP senators would need to vote with Democrats in order to convict him.”
JUST IN: Senate votes that the impeachment trial of former President Trump is constitutional #ImpeachmentTrial https://t.co/1bJWRubrZy pic.twitter.com/7DfeR0zgl6
— The Hill (@thehill) February 9, 2021
Fox News correspondent Edward Lawrence posted to Twitter, “Senate votes to move forward with the Impeachment Trial. The vote was 56-44. Republican Senators Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey all voted that the process was Constitutional. #ImpeachmentTrial”
Senate votes to move forward with the Impeachment Trial. The vote was 56-44. Republican Senators Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey all voted that the process was Constitutional. #ImpeachmentTrial
— Edward Lawrence (@EdwardLawrence) February 9, 2021
Senator Marco Rubio spoke out against the impeachment, “We are going to spend a week focused on something that is not going to help anyone with the thing that matters in this country the most right now. And that’s a terrible thing. That’s a waste of our time.”
Sen. Marco Rubio: "We are going to spend a week focused on something that is not going to help anyone with the thing that matters in this country the most right now. And that's a terrible thing. That's a waste of our time." pic.twitter.com/S3PvHBiTzi
— The Hill (@thehill) February 9, 2021
