U.S. media gateway experts reported on Jan. 22 that federal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) issued a statement the same day announcing that articles of impeachment against former President Trump would be brought to the Senate next Monday (Jan. 25). on Jan. 13, a resolution for a second impeachment of Trump passed the House by a vote of 232 to 197, with 10 Republicans led by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Ariz.) joined all 222 Democrats in voting to impeach President Trump. The articles of impeachment require Trump to be barred from ever holding the federal presidency again, which would prevent him from running in the 2024 presidential election if convicted. Senate leaders Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are negotiating the details and timing of the impeachment trial in the Senate.
Pelosi said in a statement, “The articles of impeachment for Trump sedition will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, January 25 …… We respect the Senate’s constitutional authority in the trial and remain concerned about the fairness of the process, and the former president will have the same amount of Time as our impeachment administrator to prepare for the trial . Our impeachment administrator is prepared to go through the trial process to 100 Senate jurors.
“Exactly one week after storming the Capitol to undermine the integrity of our democracy, the House voted bipartisan to pass articles of impeachment against Trump, and it is our solemn obligation to submit the House-passed articles of impeachment to the Senate.”
Senate Majority Leader Schumer also spoke about the articles of impeachment being forwarded to the Senate.
The language of the articles of impeachment reads as follows.
A resolution of impeachment of Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
RESOLVED, That the President of the United States, Donald John Trump, be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be laid before the Senate of the United States.
The House of Representatives of the United States of America, in the name of the United States and the people of the United States, presents articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, to uphold his impeachment for verified crimes and misdemeanors.
The Constitution states that the House of Representatives “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” and that the President “shall be impeached from Office and convicted of Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” In addition, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits anyone who “shall have taken part in insurrection or rebellion against the United States” from “holding public office in the United States.” During Trump’s presidency of the United States, he violated his constitutional oath to serve as President of the United States by failing to preserve, provide, protect and defend to the best of his ability the Constitution of the United States, and by violating his constitutional duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed, Donald John Trump committed a high crime and misdemeanor by inciting violence against the government of the United States, and his conduct was
Under the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives and the Senate met in a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol to count the Electoral College votes. In the months leading up to the joint session, President Trump repeatedly made false statements claiming that the results of the presidential election were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people, nor certified by state or federal officials. Shortly before the joint session began, President Trump addressed the crowd on the Oval Lawn in Washington, D.C. He reiterated the false claim that “we won this election, we won the election by a landslide.” He also made deliberate statements that encouraged and foresaw illegal actions at the Capitol, such as, “If you don’t fight like hell, you will no longer have a country.”
Incited by President Trump, crowds who heard him speak and attempted to interfere with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional obligation to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, illegally broke into and vandalized the Capitol, resulting in injuries and deaths of persons (including law enforcement officers), threats to members of Congress, the Vice President, and congressional staff, and these crowds engaged in other violent and deadly, destructive, and inflammatory acts.
President Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021 were preceded by efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. These prior efforts included a call on January 2, 2021 urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the results of the Georgia presidential election or face threats. “
In all of these ways, President Trump’s has seriously jeopardized the security of the United States and its government institutions. He threatens the integrity of the democratic system, interferes with the peaceful transition of power, and endangers the equality of government. As such, he has done a clear disservice to the American people and betrayed the trust they placed in him as president.
Donald John Trump, by such actions, has demonstrated that if allowed to continue in office, he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution, and act in a manner that is a serious violation of self-government and the rule of law. Therefore, Donald John Trump should be impeached and tried, removed from office, and disqualified from holding any public office of honor, trust, or profit in the United States.”
Last week Pelosi appointed the House impeachment managers who will prosecute the impeachment of Trump in the Senate, they are, chief impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-CA), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CA), Rep. David Cicilline (D-CA), Rep. Joaquin Joaquin Castro, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Rep. Joe Neguse, and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-CA).
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