McConnell suggests Senate impeachment trial will go into 2020
November 18, 2019
The Senate’s impeachment trial for President Trump will almost certainly be pushed into 2020.
Given the House’s uncertain timeline for passing articles of impeachment, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested on Monday that the lower chamber will be considering the measure until the end of December. And though McConnell said he “can’t imagine a scenario under which President Trump would be removed from office,” the Kentucky Republican was uncertain of how long the trial will go.
“It looks to me like the House is going to be on this until Christmas, then it comes over to the Senate. It displaces all other business,” McConnell told reporters in Louisville, according to audio from the event. “I don’t know how long senators will want to continue the trial, but I’m pretty confident that in the end impeachment will not lead to ouster.”
Under that timeline, the impeachment trial is almost certain to conflict with the efforts of a half-dozen Democratic senators to win the party’s nomination for president. The Iowa caucuses are Feb. 3.
Source: https://www.politico.com/
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