{"id":49907,"date":"2021-01-27T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=49907"},"modified":"2021-01-27T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:29:04","slug":"impeachment-trial-dead-on-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=49907","title":{"rendered":"IMPEACHMENT TRIAL DEAD ON ARRIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rand Paul says Trump impeachment case is ‘DEAD ON ARRIVAL’ after 45 senators support his motion to declare trial unconstitutional<\/h1>\n

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US Senator Rand Paul is shown speaking in a hearing last September. \u00a9 Reuters \/ Tom Williams<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Only five Republican senators opposed a motion by colleague Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) to declare Donald Trump’s impeachment trial unconstitutional, signaling that Democrats won’t have enough votes to convict the former president.<\/p>\n

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The Senate voted 55-45 on Tuesday to set aside Paul’s motion to short-circuit the trial before it even starts on the basis that the Constitution doesn’t provide jurisdiction for impeaching a president who’s no longer in office. It would take a two-thirds Senate majority, or as many as 67 votes, to convict Trump.<\/p>\n

“Forty-five Senators agreed that this sham of a trial is unconstitutional,”<\/em>\u00a0Paul said on Twitter.\u00a0“This is more than will be needed to acquit and to eventually end this partisan impeachment process. This trial is dead on arrival in the Senate.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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