Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:23 am on January 22, 2021
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Why did Chuck Schumer suddenly appear open to delaying Donald Trump’s impeachment trial a few weeks? Perhaps he has already heard what Senate Republicans told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton that a conviction won’t happen, let alone the vote on disqualification. Now that Trump has left office and the threat of a conviction appears to have worked to shut him down his last few days in office, they no longer need to wield conviction as a threat:
Only five or six Republican senators at the most seem likely to vote for impeachment, far fewer than the number needed, GOP sources say. …
WASHINGTON
The Senate confirmed Lloyd J. Austin III as Defense secretary Friday, putting the first Black American in charge of the Pentagon by a nearly unanimous vote of 93 to 2.
Austin, a retired four-star Army general who commanded U.S. forces in the Middle East, becomes the second member of President Biden’s Cabinet to be approved by the Senate. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines was confirmed Wednesday, after Biden’s swearing-in, and several other Cabinet members are likely to get confirmation votes soon.
Austin arrived at the Pentagon and was sworn in around noon, an hour after the Senate vote. He received a briefing on actions against the spread of COVID-19, and made clear that his immediate priority was expanding the military’s role in assisting the federal response to the pandemic.
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