WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named two House chairmen who led President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry as prosecutors for Trump’s Senate trial. Trump’s trial will be only the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history, and it comes against the backdrop of a politically divided nation and an election year. Senate Republicans also signaled they would reject the idea of simply voting to dismiss the articles of impeachment against Trump, as Trump himself has suggested. It takes just 51 votes during the impeachment trial to approve rules or call witnesses. He prefers to model Trump’s trial partly on the process used for then-President Bill Clinton’s trial in 1999.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 15, 2020 15:33 UTC