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House Likely to Offer Articles of Impeachment Against Trump on Monday

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   Efforts to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his role in
   inciting the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday gained
   momentum Saturday, with Democratic members of the U.S. House of
   Representatives announcing they will offer articles of impeachment as
   early as Monday.

   Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from the state of California, who helped
   draft the charges against Trump, tweeted Saturday afternoon that the
   articles had 180 co-sponsors, although no Republicans were among them.

     UPDATE to the update: We've just hit 180 cosponsors of the Article
     of Impeachment drafted by Rep [1]@davidcicilline, [2]@RepRaskin, me
     and [3]@HouseJudiciary staff.
     We will introduce the Article of Impeachment this Monday during the
     House's pro forma session. [4]https://t.co/qm7LmXhOgK
     -- Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) [5]January 9, 2021

   Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and her
   colleagues are anxious to see the president removed from office before
   his term ends Jan. 20, even though the Republican-led U.S. Senate is
   unlikely to agree.

   "The situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous,
   and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people
   from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy," Pelosi
   said Friday.

   If the House were to impeach the president, for a second time, that
   would trigger a trial in the Senate, which has acquitted Trump once
   before and is to be in recess until Jan. 19. Democrats will take
   control of the Senate later this month.

   Democratic congressional leaders also have called on Vice President
   Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which offers an alternative
   and perhaps quicker way to remove the president from office. Pence has
   not responded but has reportedly told colleagues he does not favor such
   action.

   Passed in the 1960s, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows
   for the temporary transfer of power from the president to the vice
   president if the president is incapacitated, with the approval of a
   majority of the Cabinet. But analysts say that option could be
   difficult to exercise with just days left in Trump's presidency.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/davidcicilline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://twitter.com/RepRaskin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   3. https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   4. https://t.co/qm7LmXhOgK
   5. https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1347983036135088128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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