Senate May Look To Clinton Case If Trump Faces Impeachment Trial
Senate May Look To Clinton Case If Trump Faces Impeachment Trial
By Kellan Howell
If the House votes to impeach President Trump, his case will move to a Senate trial. And senators may look to Bill Clinton's trial as a guideline.
If the House of Representatives approves articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump, senators will be tasked with conducting a trial for just the second time in modern history. And they may look to President Bill Clinton's case as a guide to navigate largely uncharted territory.
"It was the first trial of an impeachment of a president since the 1860s, so there really was no precedent," said David Hawkings, editor-in-chief of The Fulcrum. "The Senate sort of had to sit down and decide for itself, 'Well, how are we going to conduct this trial?'"
The Constitution lays out a few ground rules for an impeachment trial: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial while the senators act as jurors. It takes a two-thirds supermajority to convict the president.
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