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The impeachment push is continuing, as the Democrats pledge to fight for the impeachment of Trump despite the House vote and Senate trial an elite House lawyer explained on Monday.
The expectations for the impeachment are supposedly going to clear President Trump after the House votes on Wednesday.
Despite what the U.S. Senate does, the House is expected to continue its sham of an impeachment inquiry, and do anything possible to get President Trump out of office.
According to Politico:
Lawyers for the House told a federal court on Monday that lawmakers will continue their impeachment investigation even after the House votes later this week to impeach President Donald Trump.
In a filing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, House General Counsel Douglas Letter argued that the House’s demands for grand jury materials connected to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were still urgent because such evidence might become relevant to the Senate’s expected impeachment trial next month.
But Letter went further to note that even apart from the Senate trial, the House Judiciary Committee intends to continue its impeachment investigation arising from the Mueller probe on its own merit. That investigation began earlier this year.
“The committee has continued and will continue [its impeachment] investigations consistent with its own prior statements respecting their importance and purposes,” Monday’s filing explained, as part of the Democrats’ hope to obtain evidence from Mueller’s probe.
In a Senate trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that Republicans will seek to dismiss impeachment charges against President Donald Trump immediately after hearing opening statements.
McConnell’s remarks came from the Senate floor on Tuesday.
As a model for a proposed trial of Trump, the Majority Leader said that he was using the 1999 Senate trial of President Bill Clinton.
McConnell suggested that a motion to dismiss would be put forth by Republicans after opening statements.
McConnell said, “By any ordinary legal standard, what House Democrats have assembled would appear to be woefully, woefully inadequate to prove what they want to allege.”
“The House should not impeach on this basis in the first place,” he added.
In the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, it was initiated on October 8, 1998.
The House voted to commence impeachment proceedings against Clinton for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The specific charges against Clinton were lying under oath and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones and from Clinton’s own testimony.
A trial in the Senate began in January 1999, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding.
However, on February 12, Clinton was acquitted on both counts as neither received the necessary two-thirds majority vote of the senators present for conviction and removal from office.
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In Clinton’s Senate trial, 45 senators voted to convict while 55 voted for acquittal on Article One.
On Article Two, 50 senators voted to convict while 50 voted for acquittal.
Clinton remained in office for the balance of his second term.
