EXPLAINED: What a Trump impeachment trial might look like
1 / 6AP Explains Impeachment TrialFILE - In this Feb. 15, 1974, a facsimile of a ticket used during the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson is photographed in Washington. As House Democrats quickly move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, much remains unknown about how a Senate trial would a proceed, including what the charges would be.
Twenty years ago, the House managers walked silently across the Capitol to the Senate, where the sergeant-at-arms escorted them to the well of the chamber and Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., then the House Judiciary Committee chairman, read the impeachment articles aloud. When he finished, Hyde said,"That concludes the exposition of the articles of impeachment against William Jefferson Clinton. The managers request that the Senate take order for the trial.
For one, it takes a vote of two-thirds of those present to convict and remove the president from office. For another, while senators are jurors, they also set the rules for the trial, may ask questions and can be witnesses. To make their case, the managers are likely to give opening and closing arguments that could last for several days and respond to senators' questions that also could be time-consuming. They also might question any witnesses. Trump's defense team would have equal time to rebut the charges. Each step, as well as the time it takes to reach agreement on the rules, takes days, if not weeks.Yes, but that would be unprecedented.
Three weeks after the trial began, senators agreed that they would hold a final vote no later than Feb. 12. President Johnson's impeachment trial lasted just over two months.The chief justice presides over an impeachment trial of the president because the Constitution says so. The Founding Fathers took the vice president, who also is the president of the Senate, out of the equation, because the vice president would become president if the Senate convicts.
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