The Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump is likely to begin in seven days with key players sworn in later this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.
McConnell, a Republican senator from Kentucky, said he expected the House of Representatives to send the articles of impeachment against Trump to the upper chamber on Wednesday.
“We believe that if that happens — in all likelihood — we’ll go through preliminary steps here this week which could well include the chief justice coming over and swearing in members of the Senate and some other kinds of housekeeping measures,” McConnell told reporters.
“We hope to achieve that by consent which would set us up to begin the actual trial next Tuesday.”
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is to preside over the trial, with Trump facing charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
McConnell’s remarks came shortly after Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker, said Democrats would…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
