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WASHINGTON, Jan 27: The 80-year-old senator presiding over Donald Trump’s impeachment was hospitalized Tuesday after sounding hoarse and sick while swearing in lawmakers as jurors.
Patrick Leahy, who was elected in 1974, is presiding over the trial as the party’s top senator with the majority in the Senate, currently the Democrats.
“Tonight, Senator Leahy was in his Capitol office and not feeling well,” his spokesman said in a statement.
“As a precaution, the treating physician recommended that he be taken to a local hospital for observation, where he is now and where he is being evaluated.”
The 100 senators will serve as jurors in the trial in which former President Trump is charged with “incitement to insurrection” in the run-up to the violent assault on Congress by his supporters on January 6.
The trial is due to begin on February 9.
Democrats are expected to fight to persuade 17 Republican senators, the number needed for the required two-thirds majority, to vote to convict Trump. AFP
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