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The Supreme Court indictment is handed over to the Senate.
The United States House of Representatives has formally handed over the indictment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate.
Thus, the controversial former president rewrites history, as the first to appear before the Supreme Court twice, and the first to do so after leaving office.
For the second time in just over a year, members of the House of Representatives marched to the Senate with a Supreme Court lawsuit against Donald Trump. This is the first time in the country’s history that a president or former president has been indicted twice.
This time, the charge is of incitement to rebellion, where Trump is accused of having an angry mob that stormed the country’s congress on January 6 of this year.
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Overthrowing the former president requires at least 17 of the 50 Republicans in the 100-member Senate strongholds to turn their backs on him and vote for a conviction.
Newly appointed President Joe Biden believes the upcoming Supreme Court trial is necessary, although it may affect his work to advance his political agenda. However, he does not believe that Trump will be convicted.
“The Senate has changed since I was there, but not much has changed,” he told CNN.
Unlike the previous indictment, this time there are more Republicans who at least do not rule out overthrowing Trump. Not least, the party’s minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has pointed this out, but despite that, it initially doesn’t appear to be enough for a conviction.
According to a compilation by The New York Times, 27 Republican senators oppose toppling Trump, 16 have yet to make up their minds and the last 7 have not expressed how they see the matter.
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Another difference compared to the previous trial against Trump is that the person leading the trial this time will not be Chief Justice John Roberts, which would have been the case had he been a sitting president, but rather Democratic Senator Patrick J. Leahy.
Leahy wears the mantle of president pro tempore of the Senate, interim president, as he is the senator who has sat at the far end of the seat of the largest party in the House. Leahy, 80, from Vermont, has been in the Senate since 1974.
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