Former US President Donald Trump will face his second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate this week.
The trial is expected to begin a little less than a month after the U.S. House of Representatives attacked Trump for “provoking a revolution” in the January 6 U.S. Capitol’s deadly storm and a number of claims. deceptively the US election was stolen from him.
The proceedings mark the first time a vice-president has gone to a court of impeachment.
Two-thirds of the 100-member Senate would have to vote to condemn Trump, and with Democrats simply retaining 50 seats in the chamber, that is considered unlikely.
Nine Democrats, dubbed so-called “impeachment managers”, argue that Trump identified the protesters “as a loaded cannon” towards the Capitol and that what he did and his words in the weeks before the uprising to the violence.
Trump’s defense team will argue that a speech he made before the riot was defended under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that he was denied due process, and that the proceedings are non-legislative with Trump’s absence. in post more.
While Trump’s conviction would not take away, he would not testify during the trial, he could lead to being barred from holding a federal office in the future by a subsequent Senate vote.
Here’s who Trump’s impeachment test is:
Senator Patrick Leahy, Senate pro tempore president
Grandfather patrick leahy [File: Joshua Roberts/Reuters]
Democrat Leahy is the longest running senator, and is third in the primary succession series. He will preside over the trial, a position normally reserved for the chief constable of the High Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts presided over Trump’s first lawsuit, as required by the U.S. Constitution. Roberts declined to participate in this trial, however, and there is no law as to who should be in charge of a former president’s impeachment lawsuit.
Leahy will fulfill key responsibilities, including reading questions submitted by legislators. It can also theoretically govern the suitability of evidence, but it can be provided by a Senate vote.
Leahy has rejected criticism from a Republican that he would not be reasonable in office.
“I have been in the Senate for over hundreds of hours. I don’t think anyone has said that I was anything but impartial in the hundreds of hours, “he told reporters in January.
Former president donald trump
Former president donald trump [File: Jim Bourg/Reuters]
Trump served one term in office before losing to Democrat Joe Biden.
He claimed that the election was murdered by widespread fraud, without any evidence to support the claim. A series of legal challenges and statements that encouraged Trump and his allies to equally failed the results of his vote in any state.
The former president refused to accept Biden’s victory before leaving office on Jan. 20, and only acknowledged that a new administration would take over after the U.S. Capitol storm.
Trump is still banned from major social media platforms and has been living in Florida since leaving the White House.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Leader of the Senate Majority
Senate Visiting Leader Chuck Schumer [File: Alex Edelman/EPA]
Schumer became the leader of the Senate majority last month, after Democrats won a double run in Georgia.
The party currently controls 50 seats in the chamber and Vice President Kamala Harris will cast a decision on votes.
As Director of the Senate Majority, Schumer was responsible for setting the format and schedule of the impeachment test.
Mitch McConnell, leader of the Senate minority
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [File: Tom Williams/Reuters]
McConnell is the most powerful Republican in the Senate and has led talks with Schumer about the shape of the trial.
He criticized Trump’s early actions, saying the president fed his supporters who directly led the Capitol riots. But he also reiterated efforts to hold off on Trump’s lawsuit before he resigned.
McConnell voted for a motion that considered going ahead with the non-legislative lawsuit because Trump was no longer in office.
Household impeachment managers:
Jamie Raskin, producer from Maryland
Producer Jamie Raskin [File: Tom Williams/AP Photo]
Raskin, a former professor of constitutional law at the University of America, as chief impeachment manager, will be the main de facto prosecutor in the case.
Raskin began drafting the impeachment article against Trump shortly after Capitol storm. He had also worked on Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019, but was not an impeachment manager then.
He has represented his Maryland region at Congress since 2017.
Diana Degette, Colorado producer
Producer Diana DeGette [File: Cliff Owen/The Associated Press]
Degette, who was elected to the House in 1996, led the chamber debate on Trump’s 2019 attack.
Prior to becoming a legislator, Degette was a civil rights lawyer.
Degette is currently serving her 13th term in office.
David Cicilline, representative from Rhode Island
Producer David Cicilline [File: Mandel Ngan/AP Photo]
Cicilline helped draft the latest impeachment article against Trump. He had scrutinized Trump as a member of the House Review Committee in his first impeachment.
Cicilline previously worked as a public defender and was mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.
“The president must be held accountable,” Cicilline wrote in a recent New York Times comment. “That can only happen by calling him a second time and condemning him in the Senate.”
Joaquin Castro, Texas producer
Producer Joaquin Castro [File: Kevin Dietsch/AP Photo]
Castro, 46, is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, which held investigative hearings in Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
He was previously a leader on the Hispanic caucus and a critic of Trump’s immigration policies.
A Mexican-American legislator born in the state of Texas, Castro is serving his fifth term in Congress. His twin brother Julio ran for a major Democratic nomination in 2020.
Eric Swalwell, California producer
Producer Eric Swalwell [File: Alex Brandon/The Associated Press]
Swalwell has been on House intelligence committees and judges and was involved in investigating Trump’s first impeachment.
He was an accuser who briefly called in 2019 the Democrat’s nomination for president.
The 40-year-old is serving his fifth term in Congress.
Ted Lieu, a producer from California
Producer Ted Lieu [File: Doug Mills/The Associated Press]
Lieu was a former Air Force officer who was a prosecutor in the force’s legal branch, the Judge’s Advocacy Law. He is now a colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
Lieu is a co-sponsor of the latest anti-impeachment article against Trump, along with Raskin and Cicilline.
Stacey Plaskett, a representative from the US Virgin Islands
Producer Stacey Plaskett [File: Tom Williams/AP Photo]
Plaskett, a 54-year-old prosecutor, represents the Virgin Islands, a region of the USA.
Prior to her election to Congress in 2014, she was an assistant district aide in the borough of Bronx in New York City and a senior adviser to the Department of Justice.
Because Plaskett represents an area of the USA, she is not a voting member of the House.
Joe Neguse, producer from Colorado
Producer Joe Neguse [File: AP Photo]
Neguse is serving his second term in Congress.
The son of an Eritrean refugee, he is the first African American contact in Colorado.
He is a member of the Judiciary Committee and earlier in his career was a lawyer in private practice.
Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania producer
Producer Madeleine Dean [File: J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]
Dean was a former member of the Pennsylvania state legislature, where he served four terms before being elected to Congress in 2018.
Earlier, she worked as a lawyer in private practice and taught writing and ethics at LaSalle University.
She is a member of the Judiciary Committee.
Trump defense lawyers:
David schoen
Schoen, a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, represented Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone, who was convicted in November 2019 of lying under oath to lawyers investigating the ban of the Russia in the 2016 election.
Trump forgave Stone in December 2020, weeks before he resigned.
Schoen also pleaded guilty to being accused of leading child trafficking lawyer Jeffrey Epstein, meeting with Epstein days before he killed himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
Bruce castor
Bruce castor [File: Matt Rourke/AP Photo]
Castor is a Pennsylvania district lawyer known for his decision not to prosecute Bill Cosby in 2005 after a woman accused the host of sexual assault.
In 2017, Castor sued Cosby’s accuser in the lawsuit for defamation, claiming it ruined her political career.