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Despite the verdict being for acquittal, the result was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment conviction vote to date. In Trump's first impeachment trial, Romney became the first senator to vote to convict a president from his own party. [207] The voting was marked by tension in the Senate chamber.
Based on the information I have right now, I voted today and will vote again later in the impeachment trial to dismiss the impeachment proceedings against former President Trump." [190] Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) tweeted "This impeachment is nothing more than a partisan exercise designed to further divide the country. Democrats claim to want to ...
Two days later, the full House approved both articles in a mostly party-line vote. [6] Trump is the third U.S. president in history to be impeached and the first to be impeached without support for the impeachment from his own party. The articles of impeachment were submitted to the Senate on January 16, 2020, initiating an impeachment trial ...
The U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump for a second time on Saturday, concluding a five-day impeachment trial. The former president, who has been impeached twice by the House of Representatives ...
A total of 57 Senators voted to convict Trump of the impeachment article brought by the U.S. House of Representatives, with seven Republicans joining all 48 Democrats and the two independents in ...
Republicans also saved Trump in the Feb. 5, 2020, vote in his previous impeachment trial, when only one senator from their ranks - Mitt Romney - voted to convict and remove him from office ...
The articles of impeachment against President Trump. Under the U.S. Constitution, the House has the sole power of impeachment (Article I, Section 2, Clause 5), and after that action has been taken, the Senate has the sole power to hold the trial for all impeachments (Article I, Section 3, Clause 6).
Trump's Senate impeachment trial over the Capitol siege began on Tuesday afternoon. 6 Republicans broke ranks and voted with Democrats to declare Trump's impeachment trial constitutional after the ...