Impeachment trial: 'If Trump gets off, every president can ignore constitution' - The Times

Senators voted for Donald Trump’s trial to go ahead this week after being warned they would create a “January exception” absolving presidents in their final weeks in office if they accepted his argument that his impeachment was unconstitutional.

Just six of the 50 Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting Trump’s case that he should not be tried as a “private citizen” for inciting insurrection when his supporters stormed the Capitol last month while he was still president.

The 100 senators sitting as the jury voted by 56 to 44 to pursue the first ever trial of an ex-president after Democrats argued that refusing to prosecute Trump would be dangerous for America and a block on accountability and unity. It was one more Republican vote than a

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