House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver the House’s articles of impeachment against former president Donald Trump to the U.S. Senate on Monday, she confirmed Friday, meaning Trump’s Senate trial could potentially start early next week over the objections of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Pelosi said in a statement she would transmit the articles of impeachment Monday after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced her decision on the Senate floor.
Under Senate rules, the Senate’s consideration of the articles would have to start by 1 p.m. the day after they’re sent to the Senate.
Pelosi had previously been tight-lipped about when the House would deliver the articles, saying Thursday only that they would be delivered “soon.”
McConnell had pushed Thursday for the Senate to wait until mid-February to start the trial, which would give Trump and his legal team more time to mount a defense.
Pelosi noted in her statement that Trump “will have had the same amount of time to prepare for trial” as the House’s impeachment managers, who she said “are ready to begin to make their case” against the former president.
Schumer said Friday he and McConnell were still negotiating over the terms of the trial and did not say when it would begin, but “make no mistake: a trial will be held in the United States Senate, and there will be a vote on whether to convict the president.”
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