10 House Republicans join Democrats in voting to impeach Trump

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• House Democrats introduce article of impeachment to remove Trump
• MORE: Draft article of impeachment charges Trump with 'incitement of insurrection' in Capitol mob attack
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• House Democrats file impeachment article charging Trump with 'incitement of insurrection'
• MORE: Trump should resign or be removed by 25th Amendment: Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger
• House Republicans join Democrats in voting to impeach Trump

He is on track to be the first president in U.S. history to undergo impeachment proceedings twice. The White House called the impeachment article "politically motivated" and repeated Mr. Trump's assertions in a video Thursday that he was calling for "healing and unity." The bill has over 210 cosponsors, a sign of the broad support among House Democrats to take action in the wake of the violence at the Capitol. It was authored by Democratic Representatives Ted Lieu of California, and David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who began drafting it while sheltering in place Wednesday in the Capitol complex. “As our next step, we will move forward with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor. The President’s threat to America is urgent, and so too will be our action,” she said.

House Democrats introduce article of impeachment to remove Trump

It’s still unclear, if the article of impeachment is passed, when it would be sent over to the Senate, which would trigger an immediate trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he won't bring back the Senate from recess before Jan. 19, which could push the trial into the beginning of the Biden administration. “The House Republicans rejected this legislation to protect America, enabling the President’s unhinged, unstable and deranged acts of sedition to continue. The House will next take up the Raskin legislation in regular order to call upon the Vice President to activate the 25th Amendment to remove the President. We are further calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours after passage,” she said. The House is expected to begin considering the article of impeachment on Wednesday morning.

MORE: Draft article of impeachment charges Trump with 'incitement of insurrection' in Capitol mob attack

Unlike impeachment, censuring does not have any practical consequences, but would have only been a formal condemnation. The majority of the House Republican conference — including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise — voted to overturn the Electoral College results last week. Last week, Kinzinger also called on Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, said in a statement on Tuesday that she would vote to impeach Mr. Trump after he whipped up his supporters Wednesday at a rally not far from the Capitol.

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Congressman John Katko was the first Republican to say he'd vote to impeach Mr. Trump on Tuesday. Katko represents a district in upstate New York which leans Democratic, and he has faced significant challenges in his last two elections. "The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution," Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, continued.

House Democrats file impeachment article charging Trump with 'incitement of insurrection'

House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against President Trump on Monday for incitement of insurrection after last week's riots at the U.S. If Pence fails to cooperate by invoking the 25th Amendment, the House will focus on a second impeachment. Monday, Democrats in the chamber officially introduced an article that charges Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors for inciting an insurrection and disrupting the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden's administration. Once the Senate receives articles of impeachment, it is required to consider them before acting on any other business — including confirming any nominees for the incoming president's Cabinet.

The final vote was 232 to 197, as the 10 Republicans joined all 222 Democrats in voting in favor of the impeachment resolution. Cicilline said Monday that he supports sending impeachment articles to the Senate right away, too. As of right now, no Republicans have signed on to the legislation that calls on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which is a likely indicator as to what happens with a potential vote on impeachment. Democrats will give Pence 24 hours to respond and act, otherwise they will likely move forward with an impeachment vote by Wednesday. The impeachment article also cited Trump's call with the Georgia Republican secretary of state where he urged him to "find" enough votes for Trump to win the state. The measure says that Trump has "demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law."

For this, the article says, Mr. Trump should be impeached, removed and disqualified from holding public office again. As a result, he "gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coordinate branch of government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." The article cites his baseless and repeated claims about "widespread voter fraud" in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election as a key contributing factor to last Wednesday's riot. During a pro forma session, House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer asked for unanimous consent from all members in approving a resolution that calls on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump "incapable of executing the duties of his office." Six Republican lawmakers introduced a resolution to censure Mr. Trump on Tuesday evening.

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House Republicans join Democrats in voting to impeach Trump

"For that reason, I cannot sit by without taking action. I will vote to impeach this president." When he was impeached in 2019 over his attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, no House Republicans voted in favor of impeaching him. But this time, 10 members of his own party determined his actions warranted impeachment. The article of impeachment will next be delivered to the Senate, where Mr. Trump will be placed on trial. However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said after the House vote that there is "simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week." This development comes the week after a mob of Trump supporters overran the Capitol on Wednesday in riots that resulted in the deaths of five people, including a Capitol policeman who was trying to help reestablish control at the Capitol complex.

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Pelosi, called a mere censure vote "an abdication" said she wouldn't consider the option. He said "we have the numbers" already to impeach Trump, unlike in 2019 when no Republicans supported that impeachment effort. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told Democrats they will move forward with an impeachment vote immediately if Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet do not invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from power. Trump was first impeached by the House about a year ago for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress stemming from discussions he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about investigating Biden. Republican Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia objected to the request and forced the measure onto the floor for a vote Tuesday.

Some Democrats have said the lower chamber should delay sending the article of impeachment over to the Senate until President-elect Joe Biden has a Cabinet in place. But other Democrats, including Hoyer, have said the Senate trial should not be delayed. "To allow the president of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is a direct threat to the future of our democracy," Katko said in a statement reported by Syracuse.com.

The article of impeachment accuses the president of "willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States." While Congress was gathering to count the Electoral College votes, the article says that Mr. Trump, addressing supporters nearby, "willfully made statements that encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — imminent lawless action at the  Capitol." House Democrats followed through with their threats and filed a single article of impeachment on Monday against President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" following the violent mob riot on Capitol Hill last week that left five people dead. Washington — Ten Republican members of the House, including one of its highest-ranking leaders, joined Democrats in voting to impeach President Trump for inciting the deadly attack on the Capitol last week by a violent mob of his supporters.