The Senate’s impeachment trial against President Trump could take place after Biden takes office, but Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears not to be ready to unify his party, telling Republican lawmakers instead that their decision is a “conscience vote.
The Senate has yet to finalize an impeachment trial, but it would undoubtedly be the first impeachment of an outgoing president in U.S. history, Breitbart News reported on Jan. 16.
McConnell didn’t seem to want to draw lines along party lines as to whether he should convict Trump over the storming of Congress. He told Republican senators that it was up to them to decide how to vote and that it would be a “conscience vote”.
The Senate is now moving quickly to confirm Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines. The Senate has scheduled a hearing just before next week’s presidential inauguration, indicating that the Senate will vote on Biden’s nomination as soon as the new president is inaugurated.
Many Democrats are calling for an immediate impeachment trial against Trump, and thus preventing him from running for office again in the future. But some lawmakers have advocated slowing down because the Senate is considering confirming Biden’s Cabinet nominees and because immediate priorities are such things as the Communist Party’s viral program.
But Jennifer Psaki, White House press secretary for Biden’s nomination, said on Friday (Jan. 15) that the Senate could let both sides go at the same time.
Impeachment of Trump has already passed in the Democratic-held House by a 232-197 vote, with 10 of those votes coming from Republicans. But the success of impeachment will ultimately depend on a vote in the Senate.
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