The retiring Pennsylvania senator joins his Republican colleague Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling for President Trump to resign. House Democrats are aiming to hold an impeachment vote this week.
Jan 11, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says the House could vote this week to impeach President Donald Trump but delay sending the legislation to the Senate until after many of incoming President Joe Biden’s Cabinet secretaries are confirmed for their posts.
The South Carolina Democrat says “it may be Tuesday or Wednesday before action is taken, but I think it will be taken this week.”
Clyburn says he’s concerned that a Senate trial could distract from the process of confirming Biden’s nominees.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Republican leader, has said an impeachment trial could begin as early as Jan. 20 – Inauguration Day.
As the last full week of Donald Trump's term gets underway, his second impeachment increasingly appears inevitable. The tricky part is what would come next.
A second Republican senator in the United States has called on Donald Trump to step down after some of the president’s supporters overran the Capitol building in Washington, DC this week in a deadly riot.
‘Resign and go away.’ Second GOP senator urges Trump to step down [Los Angeles Times]
A second Senate Republican on Sunday called on President Trump to “resign and go away” over his incitement of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol last week, and Democratic calls for impeachment gained momentum with a top House Democrat’s prediction that a vote could come as early as Tuesday.
Extremist Trump supporters battered their way into the stately edifice Wednesday, shouting chants that included “Hang Mike Pence!” after the president falsely told them that the vice president could overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory if he so chose. In the final days of Trump’s tenure, lawmakers again faced the quandary of how or whether to rein in a president denounced by many as lawless.