Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Impeachment. The second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to begin tomorrow. While some of the trial’s logistics remain unclear, both Senate Democrats and Republicans expect the trial to be shorter than last year’s, which lasted three weeks. The Senate will accommodate a request from one of Trump's impeachment attorneys, David Schoen, to pause the trial during the Jewish Sabbath, which would mean the trial would be suspended at sundown Friday and potentially not reconvene until Sunday. Democrats will need at least 17 Republican senators to vote to convict Trump and bar him from running for future office, and with only five Republicans joining Democrats back in January in voting against a motion that argued the impeachment trial is unconstitutional, the trial will likely fall short of the two-thirds votes needed for conviction.