Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Senate’s president pro tempore, for the the upper chamber's impeachment trial. He will then swear in all 100 senators, where they will take an oath to do “impartial justice”
"The Senate will receive the managers of the House of Representatives to exhibit the articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, president of the United States,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday at the start to the proceeding to formally begin the trial.The seven Democratic House managers who will argue the case for removing President Donald Trump from office then formally presented the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
The House impeached Trump on Dec. 18 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals and for blocking the House from further investigating the scandal. Trump's Senate trial is the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.
Chief Justice John Roberts arrived in the Senate Thursday afternoon and entered the chamber, escorted by Sens. Roy Blunt , Dianne Feinstein , Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy . Roberts, wearing a black robe, was sworn in by Sen. Chuck Grassley , the Senate’s president pro tempore. He proceeded to administer the oath to “do impartial justice” to all 100 senators in the chamber. The senators then, in groups of four, signed the oath book, overseen by Julie Adams, Secretary of the Senate.
Despite Thursday's ceremonial proceedings, the impeachment trial will not begin in earnest until Tuesday, with a contentious vote on the rules package to govern the trial. Twenty years ago, Leahy successfully pitched Senate leadership on an all-senators meeting to avoid a partisan set of Senate rules. He asked Schumer and McConnell to consider doing the same this time, to no avail so far.
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