US Senate Votes To Allow Witnesses, Prolonging Trump Impeachment Trial US Senate Votes To Allow Witnesses, Prolonging Trump Impeachment Trial In a surprise move, the lead House impeachment manager, Jamie Raskin, said he wanted to call a Republican lawmaker to testify as a witness.
Republicans hope to wrap up proceedings with a swift acquittal of Donald Trump
Washington:
The US Senate voted Saturday to allow witnesses at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a surprise move likely to prolong the proceedings, even as the top Republican senator said he would vote to acquit the former president of inciting insurrection.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell s reported decision to vote to acquit means Trump is unlikely to be convicted of the charge of inciting the deadly January 6 assault by his supporters on Congress.
By Laura Gottesdiener, Frank Jack Daniel and Ted Hesson CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (Reuters) - In the days before U.S. President Joe Biden s inauguration, Mexican soldiers patrolling the banks of the wide Suchiate River found few migrants amid the flow of trade across the water from Guatemala. The likely explanation lay hundreds of miles to the south, where baton-wielding Guatemalan security forces beat back one the largest U.S.-bound migrant caravans ever assembled, according to a Reuters photographer and other witnesses. We re scared, Honduran migrant Rosa Alvarez told a reporter by telephone as she fled with many others toward the nearby hills, two young children in tow. The operation was part of a U.S.-led effort, pursued by past American administrations and accelerated under former President Donald Trump, to pressure first the Mexican and then the Central American governments to halt migration well short of the U.S. border. Under the Biden administration, the same general strategy
In the days before U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration, Mexican soldiers patrolling the banks of the wide Suchiate River found few migrants amid the flow of trade across the water from Guatemala.