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Donald Trump has obtained a first victory against the Democrats in the impeachment of the Supreme Court.
Only five Republicans in the Senate are in favor of ending the trial.
Twelve more are needed to fall, and prevent him from running in the 2024 election.
Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, was pleased after the Senate voted on whether to address his problem.
“This ‘trial’ is dead beforehand in the Senate, he tweeted.
The Supreme Court indictment against Donald Trump after the assault on the Capitol on January 6 will begin in the Senate on February 9. The former president seems to continue to have great power over the Republicans and their top representatives.
On Tuesday night, the Senate voted to reject a request from Rand Paul.
Success for Trump
I wanted to vote on the legitimacy of the trial. The argument is that Trump cannot be brought before a Supreme Court because his term has ended. Paul believes that it is not in accordance with the constitution to implement a supreme court against a president who has already resigned.
“The Supreme Court is there to remove from office and the defendant has already left office,” Rand Paul said in the courtroom, adding that a trial “would drag our fantastic country by the wayside, with a bitter anger never before seen in our country. “. story, “according to the Washington Post.
Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer chose instead to vote to skip Paul’s request. He passed with 55-45.
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Only five Republicans voted with their 50 Democratic colleagues. Given that it takes 17 Republicans to overthrow Donald Trump, an acquittal seems highly likely by most US media watchers.
For the former president, the stakes are high. If the Democrats, against all odds, manage to muster all the votes necessary to reach a two-thirds majority to fall on the Supreme Court, only a simple majority is needed to vote and prevent it from running again in the general election.
Donald Trump has previously indicated that he might consider running in the 2024 presidential election. He has also promised his supporters that “the journey has only just begun.”
All five Republicans who voted with Democrats during Tuesday’s vote have previously criticized the former president. But it’s a blow to Chuck Schumer that no one else has opposed Trump.
One way to avoid falling
Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who broke with Donald Trump and said he did the acts that deserve a Supreme Court indictment, also voted against the Democrats.
McConnell revealed to reporters Tuesday that he did not speak to Trump during his final month in the White House.
– The last time I spoke to him was the day after I said that Biden, of course, had won the election. It should have been December 15, he said according to the Washington Post.
Before the vote, Republican members of the Senate had lunch together where they listened to arguments why a Supreme Court against a resigned president may be against the constitution.
More and more Republicans have embraced the idea in recent days because it gives them a way to free Donald Trump, even though they believe he incited the mob that stormed the Capitol and was behind the chaos that killed five people. writes the Washington Post.
Democrats and many constitutional experts dismiss that idea.
– It is against common sense for a president, or other elected person, to commit a heinous crime against our country and then defeat the power of Congress to sue by resigning and thus avoid assuming responsibilities and a vote that could prevent a no-show run for office again, Chuck Schumer said.
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