7 Republican Senators in favor of impeachment… The hearing period is the shortest ever
The first president to pass two rounds of impeachment in the House of Representatives… First hearing after retirement
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Former US President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial for incitement to civil war was rejected in a vote of the Senate on the 13th (local time), and was finally found innocent. However, during this hearing process, various’first records’ are expected to appear one after another, and the former President Trump is expected to be recorded in US history as the past US president who held disgrace.
At the trial of the impeachment of former President Trump’s incitement to civil war, Trump’s family of seven Republican senators set an unusual record of voting for impeachment. The Associated Press reported that in the Senate’s impeachment ballot, the number of convictions came from party lawmakers such as the president. Trump’s impeachment proposal was more in favor of 57 in the Senate and 43 opposed, but it did not reach the quorum of 67. Even when the House of Representatives passed the impeachment prosecution, 10 Republican lawmakers voted for rebellion.
Following the “Ukraine Scandal” in 2019, former President Trump came to the trial for impeachment twice on charges of inciting civil rebellion over the uprising in the Capitol on the 6th of last month. Trump is the first president in US history to have an impeachment bill passed twice in the House of Representatives.
Former President Trump also left the stigma of being the first president to be judged for impeachment by the Senate after leaving office. Trump argued that the impeachment trial was unconstitutional because the retired president was not subject to the impeachment hearing, but the Senate decided that it was possible to hear what happened while in office.
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Meanwhile, 11 of the past 45 presidents, including former President Trump, faced a bill of impeachment by the House of Representatives. Three of them, including Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and former President Trump, received an impeachment hearing by the Senate after a bill of impeachment was passed in the House of Representatives, but the impeachment bill was finally rejected.
Trump’s impeachment bill is also the shortest hearing period in US history. The House of Representatives, led by the Democratic Party, proposed an impeachment prosecution on the 11th of the same month, five days after the uprising of the Capitol on the 6th of last month, and passed it on the 13th, just two days later. On the 25th of last month, the House of Representatives delivered the bill of impeachment to the Senate, and on the 26th, the Senate began the hearing process by voting constitutional to promote the impeachment trial. The Senate rejected the impeachment bill through a vote on the 13th, the 5th day after starting a full-scale hearing on the 9th. It took 34 days from the House of Representatives’ motion to dismiss the Senate, and the case stayed in the Senate for 19 days.
The “Ukrainian Scandal”, which was accused by former President Trump of calling the Ukrainian president in 2019 to investigate allegations of corruption in the then-election rival Joe Biden, remained in Congress for 135 days until the Senate dismissed the impeachment. The House of Representatives initiated an impeachment investigation on September 24, 2019, and passed the prosecution on December 18. On January 16, last year, the proceedings of the Senate began, and on the 21st, the proceedings began in earnest, and the vote was rejected on February 5. The Senate hearing period was 21 days.
In the case of former President Johnson, whose impeachment prosecution was passed on charges of violating the Government Offices Act, a hearing was held for 83 days in the Senate alone until it was dismissed by a vote of the Senate on May 16, 1867. Former President Clinton, swept by allegations of sexual scandals, began impeachment proceedings by the House of Representatives on October 8, 1998, and took 128 days to be rejected by the Senate on February 12 of the following year. The Senate hearing began on January 7, 1999 and lasted for 37 days.
/ Intern reporter Park Shin-won [email protected]
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