Trump Impeachment Goes to Full House for Vote

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump Wednesday.

The House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first article charges him with abuse of power for pressuring Ukraine to assist him in his re-election campaign by damaging Democratic rivals. The second article charges him with obstruction of Congress for blocking testimony and refusing to provide documents in response to House subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry, the New York Times reported.

Republican Congressman Don Bacon, who represents Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District (Douglas County and western Sarpy County), told NET’s Jack Williams that he would vote no. Bacon said, “I think the House is setting a bad precedent that’s going to hurt our country for decades. There were no high crimes or misdemeanors. I don’t think there was a crime and the voters are going to be able to decide this in ten and a half months. “

The House is empowered to impeach a president and the Senate is empowered to conduct a trial. If Donald Trump is impeached, then the Senate will most likely treat it as a hostile action by a majority of Senators who belong to the Republican Party.

A poll conducted for Republican Rep. Don Bacon found he leads by 9 points in a House race Democrats have pegged as their best pick-up opportunity in Nebraska. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

President Trump and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts(right) discuss energy at White House. (Courtesy). Ricketts attacked Trump impeachment inquiry as effort to “subvert the will of the American people.”

POLITICO Analysis

It’s on track to be the trial of the century: President Donald Trump fighting to keep his job before a jury of 100 senators. It also could never happen. That’s because of a Constitution that designates the Senate with the “sole power to try” an impeachment that comes from the House. But nowhere in America’s founding document is the trial said to be a mandatory act.

Read more of Politico’s “How Mitch McConnell could give impeachment the Merrick Garland treatment” by Darren Samuelsohn and Quint Forgey.