As House Impeaches, Sens. And Scholars Debate Trial Timing By
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Andrew Kragie and Jimmy Hoover Law360 (January 12, 2021, 9:21 PM EST) With the House set to impeach President Donald Trump as soon as Wednesday, lawmakers and scholars are debating when the Senate will hold a trial and vote on disqualifying him from holding office in the future and whether the Senate can act after his term ends.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., has said the chamber will start considering an article of impeachment Wednesday, with a vote possible that day. Democrats are bypassing the typical process of committee hearings, debate and defense testimony,
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But that was then and this is now. Mercer Law School’s dean has joined other law school chiefs in denouncing the violent insurrection last week, but when the school posted this on the official Facebook page, students and alumni started pushing back hard on the fact that the school’s mock trial courtroom is still named after the professionally embattled attorney.
Thank you for joining this statement, but at the moment our school has a courtroom bearing the name of a man who played large part in stoking the fires of this attempted coup…. We have too many notable, worthy alumni to have his name on anything inside our school.
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