The democracy of the United States, the impeachment of Trump accelerate the battle, but … Senate door dilemma

The United States Democratic Party is pushing hard for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, who only has eight days left in office on the 12th (local time).

On the 6th, the Democratic Party presented an impeachment bill for President Trump to the House of Representatives the day before, charging him with incitement to a civil war for the responsibility of instigating the riots in the Congress of protesters who support Trump.

The House of Representatives, led by the Democratic Party, handled a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to deprive President Trump of his duties.

Furthermore, if Vice President Pence does not invoke Article 25, a plenary session of the House of Representatives will be held on the 13th, and an ultimatum has been sent to pass a resolution against Trump’s impeachment.

It’s a swift fight to pass the impeachment bill in just 7 days after the congressional riots on the 6th.

This is a tremendous pace compared to the approval of the impeachment on December 18, 85 days after the impeachment inquiry began on September 24 of that year when President Trump’s “ Ukrainian scandal ” broke out in 2019. However, this impeachment proposal was absent in February of the following year due to a Republican majority Senate vote.

The Democrats’ swift impeachment trial is an analysis that the peculiarity of President Trump’s end of term had an effect. While trying to determine if he was charged before his retirement, he promoted a battle of speed that resembles a military operation.

But the Senate is likely to block the Democratic Party’s plans. The impeachment of the House can be approved with a majority seat, but the vote of the Republican Party is required to cross the door of the Senate.

The Democratic Party won the final two-seat vote for Georgia state senator on the 5th, bringing the senator to a 50-50 tie. .

Additionally, Republican Senate Representative Mitch McConnell has announced that he will convene the Senate on the 19th even if the Democratic Party passes an impeachment bill in the House. It means that no matter how early, it is possible to discuss the impeachment bill on the 20th.

The problem is that the 20th is the opening date of Biden-elect. If the issue of impeachment arises from the first day of the inauguration, the inauguration of the new president can be buried and can be an obstacle to the emergence of the initial national agenda.

The escalation of political conflict between opposition parties is not only the opposite image of consolidation that President-elect Biden has been calling for, but also acts as a heavy burden on the administration of state affairs, such as controlling the pandemic pandemic. , obtain additional budget proposals and promptly pass Cabinet by the Senate.

Currently, there are two leading voices in the Democratic Party on the issue of dealing with the Senate on the impeachment bill.

One is the rapid change of the Senate. The gateway to get through anyway is to finish the process as quickly as possible.

House Leader Chuck Schumer of the Democratic Party proposed a plan to call an emergency meeting before the 20th with the agreement of the party leadership rather than the agreement of the entire Senate, using the resolution taken after the attacks. terrorists of September 11, 2001.

The day before, Biden-elect also said the Senate could handle the impeachment bill and the Cabinet approval bill in half a day, and spoke to the Senate leadership, as if focusing on speedy prosecution. .

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The cooperation of the Republican Party is essential to this, but it seems unlikely.

It is unclear whether McConnell will agree to the Senate’s early convocation proposal. Also, if the Republican Party pushes Senate impeachment sentiment into a long-term war, the ‘Golden Time’, which is most notable for Biden-elect, could be the result of being buried in the impeachment regime. .

Another part of concern is that the possibility of passing the impeachment proposal to the Senate is not high.

To pass the Senate, more than two-thirds of the 100 seats need 67 votes. Even if the Democratic Party has 50 seats, at least 17 Republicans must approve it, but it is noted that it is difficult to wait that long, even if some deviations arise.

In the end, the Democratic Party was unable to impeach President Trump, and from the vantage point of the Biden administration, the ruling and opposition parties took on the burden of forming a confrontational regime.

In this context, even if the House of Representatives passes the bill, there are also proposals to pass the bill to the Senate 100 days after Biden takes office to proceed with the hearing.

CNN relayed that some Democratic party lawmakers suggested that the impeachment plan be passed late to the Senate, but senior Democrats said they hoped to submit it immediately.

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