Senate opens Trump impeachment trial
By Scott Wong and Cristina Marcos - 01/16/20 12:25 PM EST
The Senate on Thursday formally received the two articles of impeachment against President Trump, marking the official handoff of the impeachment process from the House to the upper chamber.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) seven lawmakers serving as prosecutors — known as impeachment managers — solemnly walked together from the House chamber over to the Senate to present the articles of impeachment, in a similar ceremonial display to the night before, to deliver them to the upper chamber.
Stepping into the well of the Senate, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) read the resolution naming the seven House managers and informing the Senate that that his chamber had impeached Trump.
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