The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump comes to an end Wednesday with what is widely expected to be the president’s acquittal on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Members of the U.S. Senate will convene for the afternoon vote in their final act as jurors in the two-week trial that followed […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. House Democrats prosecuting the impeachment case against President Donald Trump and his defense team offered their closing arguments Monday at his Senate trial even as his acquittal remains all but certain. Congresswoman Val Demings, one of the House lawmakers calling for Trump’s conviction on two articles of impeachment, told the 100 members of the […]
U.S. President Donald Trump‘s lawyers resume their impeachment defense Monday, as Democrats issue fresh calls for new witnesses in the Senate trial after accounts emerged of Trump telling his then-national security adviser he wanted to withhold security aid to Ukraine until it launched an investigation of a Democratic rival. The New York Times first reported the […]
As the U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating the rules that will dictate the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump going forward, progressive groups continued their denunciation of the proposal put forth by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who they charge has set the stage for a legal process that will “amount to nothing more than a fact-free […]