Trial against Trump continues this Tuesday

The United States Senate will begin on Tuesday the political trial against US President Donald Trump, which could be the shortest removal process held in the Upper House in more than a century, according to the rules he has proposed the leader of the Republican majority, Senator Mitch McConnell.

In spite of the democratic critics, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate put on the table some rules for the political trial that will foreseeably be put to the vote on the opening day of this Tuesday and that imply a clear reduction of the time granted to the ‘prosecutors’ of the case, the seven Democratic managers appointed by the House of Representatives, and the legal defense of President Trump.

Both, the seven Democratic deputies and the lawyers appointed by Trump, including the White House legal advisor, Pat Cipollone, will have 24 hours in each case to present their opening arguments in the political trial, a time that will be divided between two days consecutive, an agenda that provides that the sessions could be extended more than twelve hours each if each party uses the time allowed.

According to CNN, the rules proposed by McConnell for the Trump political trial suggest that this process in the Upper House, chaired by the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, will be resolved in a matter of days, even with the possibility that it ends, as Trump expects, before the president delivers his speech on the State of the Union, the most important political speech of the year, on February 4th.

In the event that the Senate approves in its session this Tuesday the rules proposed by McConnell, the trial against Trump could become the shortest process held against a US president in the framework of an impeachment, since that of Democrat Bill Clinton was solved in just over a month (from January 7 to February 12, 1999) and that of also Democrat Andrew Johnson lasted two months (from March 5 to May 1868).

K. Tovar

Source: dpa