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Solemn Senate Trial for Trump Includes Silent Senators

Steve Redisch

   Impeached by the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump now
   faces a trial in the U.S. Senate.

   A guilty verdict will end his presidency, although that is considered
   unlikely to occur with Republicans in control of the Senate. There is
   little in the U.S. Constitution about how to conduct an impeachment
   trial. Article 1, Section 3 says the Senate shall have the sole power
   to try all impeachments; the Chief Justice will preside over a
   presidential impeachment trial.

   "Otherwise it would be the Vice President presiding over the Senate,
   and he would have a conflict of interest," says Susan Low Bloch, a
   Constitutional law professor at Georgetown University.

   There is also little precedent. This will be just the third Senate
   impeachment trial for a U.S. president.

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