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The senators voted 51-48 against considering the first article of impeachment, with one Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voting present. The vote to kill the second article split 51-49 ...
A 57-43 majority of the Senate voted to convict Trump, but fell short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction. Live impeachment updates: In historic vote, Senate acquits Trump. Again.
Once an article has been passed in the House, the president has been impeached. The articles are then sent to the Senate for adjudication with an impeachment trial. After views have been laid out in the trial, the Senate moves to vote on conviction. Each article requires a two-thirds majority of Senators present to pass.
The Senate met Wednesday to take up the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas. All 100 senators, including Senate President Pro Tem Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, were sworn in as ...
A set of impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee began on December 4, 2019; on December 13, the committee voted 23–17 (along party lines) to recommend articles of impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Two days later, the full House approved both articles in a mostly party-line vote. [6]
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. [209] The voting was marked by tension in the Senate chamber.
Trump's legal team repeatedly pointed to statements by Democrats as they argued the former president's speech before the Capitol riots is protected.
In previous impeachment proceedings, only one senator had ever voted to convict a president of their own party. This time, seven Republican senators found Trump guilty, making it the most bipartisan impeachment trial. As Trump was no longer president, the president pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy presided over Trump's second trial. As ...