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WASHINGTON Florida’s two senators voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on Saturday, as Rick Scott and Marco Rubio stood with a twice-impeached president who continues to exert immense influence over the Republican Party. Five weeks after a pro-Trump mob bent on overturning the results of the 2020 election entered the Senate chamber with weapons and zip ties, forcing Rubio, Scott and .
However, the reception has been lukewarm so far from Democrats, who would prefer to see the former president convicted in the impeachment trial, and from Republicans, who fear political consequences in barring Trump from office.
Republican Senator Rand Paul says if inflammatory rhetoric is enough to impeach an elected official, than the US House of Representatives should target Senate Majority Chuck Schumer for his past rhetoric surrounding the Supreme Court.
The comments come as the US Senate prepares for the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump.
Posted by Scott Lucas | Feb 9, 2021 |
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins on Tuesday in the Senate, with House impeachment managers claiming “the most grievous constitutional crime” over Trump’s incitement of the attack on the US Capitol on January 6.
The managers summarized the charge of “incitement of insurrection” in a five-page response to the 78-page brief filed by Trump’s defense team, which insisted that a former President cannot be tried for his actions.
Most legal and constitutional experts have rejected that argument, and there is precedent for the Senate hearing the cases of former US officials and judges, dating to the 1876 trial of recently-resigned Secretary of War William Belknap.