Impeachment

Mitt Romney stood before his peers Wednesday afternoon and cited his faith as the reason he felt compelled to vote to convict President Trump on the impeachment charges.

President Trump was acquitted on both articles of impeachment on Wednesday.

Film director Spike Lee said in an interview this week that senators who placed their hand on a Bible when they took the oath of office and vote to acquit President Trump will "burn in Hell."

Senator's gave their closing arguments in the impeachment trial on Monday and are expected to make a final vote on conviction on Wednesday.

When the final vote comes to impeach the president in the Senate, sixty-seven senators will be required to convict the president. While this is considered highly unlikely, note that a number of Americans smaller than the smallest county in America (Kalawao County, Hawaii, with eighty-eight residents) could remove a president from office for the first time in US history.

Democrat Senator Doug Jones says he is unsure of how he will vote on the Senate impeachment of the President.

As the impeachment trial continues, across the world in China, there is a coronavirus outbreak.

The first day of President Trump’s impeachment trial concluded Tuesday after a 12-hour marathon session, with senators approving rules for the trial after several tense exchanges over the specifics.

Democratic House managers will begin presenting their case Wednesday.

Here are five key takeaways from the first day:

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 It would be difficult to live in America without having an opinion about President Trump. A statistical analysis found that the media has given three times as much airtime to his presidency as to President Obama’s. Our culture seems to be consumed daily with who he is and what he does.

Americans have only faced the impeachment of a President three times in the 230 years since the passage of the United States Constitution. Because only three of our forty-five Presidents have faced impeachment proceedings, many misconceptions about the purpose and method for impeaching the President abound. Since we live in a self-governing republic, it is important for citizens to understand the history of, the logic behind, and the procedure for the impeachment process.

 Here are five things that you may not know about impeachment:

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