One year ago | By NPR
Four senators will have to interrupt their Democratic presidential campaigns to adjudicate the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. They're loading up their campaign schedules this weekend.
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One year ago | By NPR
A nonpartisan federal watchdog agency ruled President Trump broke a budget law by withholding aid from Ukraine - a decision that may fuel the push to call witnesses at his Senate impeachment trial.
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One year ago | By The Washington Post
For weeks, President Trump said he wanted a Senate trial that included administration officials. Now he says he will defer to the Senate and may invoke executive privilege to block witness testimony.
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One year ago | By Boston Herald
WASHINGTON - The Latest on President Donald Trump's impeachment :
2:40 p.m.
The Senate is one man short on the opening day of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
Republican James Inhofe is back in Oklahoma “to be with a family member facing a medical issue,” his office says.
Inhofe says he'll return to Washington in time for the start of opening arguments on Tuesday. He's considered a reliable vote to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He is one of just 13 senators who served in the body during the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton 21...
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One year ago | By NY Times
President Trump's fate now rests with a Senate controlled by 53 Republicans, many of whom have already dismissed the charges against him out of hand.
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One year ago | By My Sanantonio
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading to Europe and then Latin America this weekend, leaving Washington ahead of the Senate trial for President Donald Trump on impeachment charges, the State Department said Thursday.
Pompeo will leave on Saturday to attend an international conference in Germany on the conflict in Libya the next day that is being co-hosted by the United Nations. The meeting aims to bring together many of the countries that have interests in Libya's ongoing civil war, and hopes are high that the warring parties will hold to a cease-fire.
From Berlin, Pompeo...
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One year ago | By Newser
The Senate got the formalities of President Trump's impeachment trial started Thursday, though the real work of the trial is not expected to start until next week. At noon, House impeachment managers began reading the two articles of impeachment against Trump, formally beginning the third such trial in US history...
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One year ago | By Al Jazeera
Formalities and housekeeping items under way as Senate kicks off the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
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One year ago | By Business Insider
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday to send two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate.
It's unclear when the Senate impeachment trial will begin, but the rules have been set - and they include a provision that bars Senators from using smartphones or other electronics.
"No use of phones or electronic devices will be allowed in the Chamber," the decorum guidelines document says, which was obtained by CNN. "All electronics should be left in the Cloakroom in the storage provided."
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