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Charges against Trump will be sent to the Senate this week 3:10
(CNN) - The president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will reveal on Wednesday the list of House Democrats who will act as managers of the Senate political trial, will serve as prosecutors when presenting the case against President Donald Trump for the Ukrainian scandal, a long-awaited measure that establishes the next phase of the political trial fight.
Pelosi will have a press conference at 10 am Miami time to announce to the political trial managers, before a vote on the resolution to appoint them and formally send the two charges of political trial to the Senate, where the senators will decide whether The president must be removed from office.
The vote will begin the ceremonial of the Senate's political trial, where the House of Representatives who will physically bring the charges to the Senate will swear, and the senators and the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, who will preside over the process. The leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said the substance of the trial will probably begin on Tuesday, January 21.
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Pelosi's announcement about managers comes four weeks after the House of Representatives voted to prosecute the president on two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After the approval of the articles of political trial, Pelosi took the unprecedented step of retaining the sending of the articles to the Senate of Republican majority, saying that he wanted to know more about the parameters of the Senate trial, creating uncertainty about the line of time for a trial and how it would develop.
The Lower House is expected to vote later, this Wednesday, on the resolution appointing managers to formalize their appointment.
The way in which the trial will finally take place in the Senate will depend on the complete parameters for the trial, which have not yet been published. McConnell said he plans to follow the 1999 political trial model to then President Bill Clinton and decide whether witnesses will be included after the opening arguments are presented, and he has the votes to establish the basic rules for the political trial without the support of The Democrats
Democrat Nancy Pelosi arrives at the meeting of the Democrat at the Capitol on January 14, 2020, days before the political trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate begins. (Credit: AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
The lower house managers are expected to have the opportunity to discuss their case before the full Senate, and after that, the president's lawyers will have the opportunity to present the defense. The opportunity to serve as a manager of political trial will offer a high-profile turn in the spotlight for legislators who have been elected and an opportunity to raise their position in Congress and with liberal voters.
The condemnation in the Senate would require a two-thirds vote, a high threshold that is not expected to be reached since many Republican senators have openly expressed that they believe the president's actions do not reach the level of political judgment.
But regardless of the result, the Senate trial will be a historical and momentous event.
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The performance of the House of Representatives managers will determine how a trial develops and could be a way for those who are elected to secure their place in history as part of the political trial procedures.
During the Clinton political trial, the managers took several days to present their arguments, followed by several days during which the Clinton legal team exposed their defense. Then they followed questions from senators sent in writing to the managers or the defense team of the then president.
There are no restrictions on the number of lower house managers that Pelosi can name for the political trial.
During the political trial against Clinton, 13 Republicans of the House of Representatives were elected as managers for the process against the president.
Three are still legislators in Congress: Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio; Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was a representative of the third district of the state Congress at the time of the Clinton trial.
- Haley Byrd and Phil Mattingly of CNN contributed to this report.
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