Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has rejected a plan to reconvene the Senate in an emergency session to hold trial over an impeachment article against President Trump in the House, the Daily Wire website reports today (January 13, 2021).
Without the emergency session, the Senate is due back in session on January 19, so McConnell's decision all but kills a Democrat-led effort to oust Trump from office before his term ends and President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20.
Democrats have proposed holding the trial over Trump's impeachment well-into Biden's presidency; however, most legal scholars believe that impeaching and removing a president after he left office is illegal and unconstitutional.
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