House Will Vote Wednesday to Send Impeachment Articles, Pelosi Says
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Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — The House will vote on Wednesday to send its impeachment charges against President Trump to the Senate, allowing a long-awaited trial to begin in the coming days, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday. The proceeding will be only the third time an American president has been put on trial in the Senate. It is poised to begin almost a month to the day after the House voted to impeach Mr. Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents, and his stonewalling of Democrats’ inquiry into his actions.
“The American people deserve the truth, and the Constitution demands a trial,” Ms. Pelosi said in a statement. “The House will now proceed with a vote on transmitting the articles of impeachment and naming impeachment managers on Wednesday, January 15.” The announcement came not long after Ms. Pelosi detailed her plan to Democratic lawmakers in a closed-door gathering on Tuesday morning. Before the vote, she said, she would appoint the team of lawmakers who will serve as prosecutors, or managers, in the case against Mr. Trump. She did not say whom she would choose.
Democratic leaders in the House were working behind the scenes with Republican leaders in the Senate and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who will preside over the trial, to determine key questions of timing for the highly choreographed ritual of turning over the charges to the Senate. Still uncertain is precisely when the House managers will ceremonially walk the articles of impeachment from the House chamber to the Senate. They will then formally present the articles and read them aloud in their entirety, prompting a trial to commence.
Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, told reporters that the House vote would take place in the afternoon on Wednesday, but the dramatic procession across the Capitol could be postponed until Thursday to not interfere with a ceremony previously scheduled for Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda. At some point thereafter, either on Wednesday or Thursday, the chief justice will leave the Supreme Court and travel across the street to the Senate chamber to administer an oath to senators to do “impartial justice.”
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The proceeding will be only the third time an American president has been put on trial in the Senate.
In a closed-door gathering with Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday morning, Ms. Pelosi detailed her plan to move on Wednesday to appoint the team of lawmakers who will prosecute the case against Mr. Trump, known as the House managers in his impeachment trial. The officials who described her private remarks spoke on condition of anonymity.
Unless things change, her timetable means that the House managers would ceremonially walk the articles of impeachment from the House chamber to the Senate well later in the day Wednesday, formally presenting them and prompting a trial to commence. The speaker said she was not yet ready to share the names of the lawmakers she would select as managers, they said.
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and there is some parrying going on. I.e., there are at least 4 GOP Senators who are signaling that they want witnesses permitted and these same ones have also signaled that they would vote against any summary dismissal of a trial in the Senate in any case.
So with the GOP "losing" those 4 (making any drastic moves by Turtle risky), a "majority" vote would be in support of Democrats - 51 (=45 Dems + 2 Indies + 4 GOP) - 49 (GOP).
And as an interesting sidenote - even this vote in the House is gonna bring up questions regarding how the GOP in there might vote. Would they vote against sending the Articles over to the Senate because their default is to vote against anything Democrats want to do (in a silly last grandstand move that would actually help Democrats wanting to wait) or would they vote to send the Articles over (which would then "legitimize" the process against the WH's wishes). 
(some interesting things to think through here... 
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