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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announced that legislation will be introduced for a new impeachment process against outgoing President Donald Trump.
In a letter to Democrats in that chamber of the United States Congress, Pelosi wrote that Vice President Mike Pence will be asked to “activate the 25th Amendment [da Constituição] declare the President incapable of performing the functions of his office “.
If this does not happen, then “removal legislation” will be discussed.
“In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both of us. As the days pass, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy by this President intensifies and also it is the immediate need to act ”, you can read in the document.
According to the Associated Press, House leaders will work Monday to pass legislation that would force Pence to remove Trump from office and assume the presidency for the remaining days of his term, although Republicans will almost certainly stay. . will block this attempt. If this rejection is confirmed, the House of Representatives will meet on Tuesday for a vote in full.
Since Wednesday, when the Capitol was attacked and invaded by hundreds of Trump supporters and five people, including a Capitol police officer, have been killed, with various voices claiming that the outgoing president must resign immediately, without waiting for Joe Biden take over.
Other Republican elected officials, such as Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, have also faced multiple criticisms, calling on them to resign for supporting, without evidence, challenging Biden’s election.
Republican Senators Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska asked Trump on Sunday to “get out of here as soon as possible.” Other Republican senators were less insistent on the still president, but admitted to having considered voting in favor of impeachment.
Pelosi had already said Saturday that it is “absolutely essential that those who committed the attack on democracy be held accountable.”
For his part, the still leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said that an impeachment process in that chamber of Congress could not begin before the day of the inauguration, on January 20.
In early 2020, Democrats sued Trump over the pressure he put on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden with the aim of hampering his presidential aspirations.
The political process against Trump failed in the Senate, where Republicans held a majority until Wednesday after the victory of the two Democratic candidates in the Georgia Senate elections.
Pelosi, as well as Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, had already announced Thursday that they would ask Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which allows the president to be removed from power due to disability. to perform functions.
If Trump is removed from office upon being removed, he will be barred from running for the White House again.
If he is the subject of a dismissal trial, he will be the only president of the United States, so far, who has been the subject of two of those cases.
Republican Donald Trump lost the November 3 presidential election to his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, who will take office as the 46th president of the United States on January 20.
Two more detainees in the Capitol case
Two more men were arrested and charged in the United States on Sunday for having ties to the Capitol riots last Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice announced in a statement.
One of the men was Larry Rendell Brock, arrested in Texas and accused of “having entered and remained”, without legal authorization, “in a violent manner” and with “disturbing the public order” in the space of the Capitol.
Eric Gavelek Munchel, a detainee in the state of Tennessee, was charged for the same reasons.
Also on Sunday, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser called on the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to strengthen security in the city in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
In a letter to Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, dated Saturday, the mayor of Washington recalls that “after the unprecedented terrorist attack on the United States Capitol” last Wednesday, at a time when threats of violence persist in the country . , it requires “a very different approach” of security services to the inauguration of Joe Biden than those that preceded it.
“I will appeal to a wide range of local, regional and federal partners to strengthen cooperation between our institutions, but I strongly urge the Department of Homeland Security to adjust its approach to the inauguration in several specific ways,” he read in the letter, shared today. by Bowser on social media.
