The U.S. House of Representatives is taking up the articles of impeachment on Wednesday.
The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday will debate and ultimately vote on whether to charge President Donald Trump with inciting violence against the government of the United States, following the domestic terrorism events of January 6.
It marks the second time the body has moved to impeach Trump in just over a year.
On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence in a letter sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi said he would not move to strip the president of his powers using the 25th Amendment.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to impeach Donald Trump on Wednesday unless he steps down or is removed before then, after drawing up charges accusing him of inciting insurrection ahead of last week s siege of the Capitol.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told his fellow Democrats the chamber would take up impeachment on Wednesday if Vice President Mike Pence does not invoke the US Constitution's 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
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Democrats don t have to choose between the nation s figurative and literal health.
One of the major obstacles to a second impeachment of President Trump is the fear that a post-inauguration trial in the Senate over his incitement of the Capitol riot, which left five people dead, will hold up efforts to pass additional COVID-related relief and to fix the country s calamitous vaccine rollout. These concerns, however, are mostly unfounded. Instead of allowing procedural rules to stand in the way of a swift trial of the dangerous outgoing president, Democrats must simply vote to change those rules to allow themselves to address our multiple crises at once.
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to impeach Donald Trump on Wednesday unless he steps down or is removed before then, after drawing up charges accusing him of inciting insurrection ahead of last week's siege of the Capitol.