The Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives plans to accuse outgoing President Donald Trump next Monday of “inciting an insurrection,” which would trigger the process for an impeachment that could lead to the Senate in the middle of next week, they reported. this Friday various media.
The latest draft of the impeachment resolution, obtained by CNN, mentions a single charge against Trump, that of “incitement to an insurrection,” and asks to disqualify him from future political office.
“Donald John Trump committed serious crimes and misdemeanors by deliberately inciting violence against (one of the branches of) the United States Government,” says the draft, which is also reported by ABC and NBC News.
Democrats plan to file that charge, known as an impeachment article, on Monday, which would allow them to schedule a snap vote on the issue in the lower house plenary session for the middle of next week, although there is no final decision yet to come. respect, according to CNN.
In a political trial, the House of Representatives is in charge of formally accusing the president with the charges, in a vote of the plenary session, while it is the Senate that is in charge of evaluating them and deciding whether to remove the president, for which a vast majority of two-thirds.
The dilemma facing Democrats in the lower house is that if they start the process on Monday, when there will only be nine days left of Trump’s tenure, the impeachment itself will most likely not be held in the Senate until that President-elect Joe Biden is already in power, CNN explained.
That would be a major distraction from the legislative priorities Biden plans to send to Congress on his first day in power, aimed at tackling the covid-19 pandemic, revitalizing the economy and reforming the immigration system.
POSSIBLE POLITICAL DISABILITY FOR TRUMP
Although a conviction of Trump in the Senate beyond January 20 would no longer succeed in removing him from office, Democrats are considering that the trial includes his disqualification from future political office.
The draft drafted by the Democrats calls for his removal and his “disqualification from holding and enjoying any position of honor, trust or benefit under the United States.”
Democrats are about to retake control of the Senate after winning both Georgia seats this week, but it is not yet clear when exactly those two new senators will take office and if it will be before January 20, when Biden will arrive. to the power.
The Speaker of the Lower House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, has assured that she will initiate the process for an impeachment if Vice President Mike Pence does not act immediately to remove Trump according to the process established in the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, something that seems very unlikely.
In a call with her coreligionists this Friday, the majority consensus was that the impeachment should begin, but Pelosi did not guarantee that it will happen, according to CNN.
This would be the second impeachment trial that Democrats would subject Trump to, after the one related to his pressure on Ukraine, which ended early last year with his acquittal in the Senate.
The draft drafted by the Democrats assures that, by encouraging the insurrection of his followers, Trump “seriously endangered the security of the United States and its government institutions.”
“He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered in the peaceful transition of power and endangered a branch of Government. Therefore, he betrayed his trust as president, with consequent manifest damage to the people of the United States, ”the text states.
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