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CHUCK Schumer said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver the article of impeachment against Donald Trump on Monday.
The confirmed the date during a Senate meeting on Friday morning.
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"I have spoken to Speaker Pelosi who informed me that the articles will be delivered to the Senate on Monday," Schumer said.
Schumer, now the Senate Majority Leader after Democrats clinched the two runoff seats in Georgia's Senate elections, said there will also be some progress made in the Senate.
"The Senate will also conduct a second impeachment trial for Donald Trump," Schumer . "I've been speaking to the Republican leader about the timing and duration of the trial."
"But make no mistake, a trial will be held in the United States Senate," he continued. "And there will be a vote on whether to convict the president."
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"There will be a trial," Schumer said. "It will be a full trial, it will be a fair trial."
"The article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection by Donald Trump will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, January 25," said in a .
"Our constitution and our country are well served," she continued, before naming the nine leaders of the impeachment trial, including Jamie Raskin, Joaquin Castro, Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu and .
"We are respectful of the Senate's constitutional power over the trial and always attentive to the fairness of the process, noting that the former president will have had the same amount of time to prepare for trial as our Managers," she continued. "Our Managers are ready to begin to make their case to 100 Senate jurors through the trial process."
"Exactly one week after the attack on the Capitol to undermine the integrity of our democracy, a bipartisan vote of the House of Representatives passed the article of impeachment, which is our solemn duty to deliver to the Senate," Pelosi ended.
During Schumer's speech, before quickly correcting himself with a frown.
Calls for a fair trial were also echoed by his Republican counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"Senate Republicans are strongly united behind the principle that the institution of the Senate, the office of the presidency," McConnell said, "and former President Trump himself all deserve a full and fair process that respects his rights and the serious factual, legal, and constitutional questions at stake."
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McConnell, who endorsed an impeachment trial for after saying the former president "provoked" his supporters, has not said how he would vote in the trial.
With Pelosi sending the articles to Senate,, but the timeline remains uncertain as Congress works to swear in other Biden officials.
Just because he left office and Biden and others are calling for national unity, Pelosi said Trump doesn’t deserve a "get-out-of-jail card."
It's "harmful to unity," Pelosi argued, to forget that "people died here on Jan. 6, the attempt to undermine our election, to undermine our democracy, to dishonor our Constitution."
"This year, the whole world bore witness to the president’s incitement," she continued.
McConnell on Thursday tried to push back Trump's impeachment to February to give Trump and his lawyers extra time to prepare for his case.
Both he and Schumer are discussing how a Senate with a 50-50 split would work as they both continue forward with other responsibilities of the Senate.
The Senate would give the president's defense team and House prosecutors two weeks to file briefs, with arguments in the trial likely to begin in early February.
The House pushed for Trump's second impeachment following riots that consumed the Capitol on January 6.
The chaos left a total of five people dead, including one police officer, and dozens of Trump supporters charged.
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Former president Trump is the first president to be impeached twice and likewise the first president to face an impeachment trial after leaving office.
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If the Senate impeaches him, it could bar him from holding any office, including running for president again in 2024. However legal experts believe Trump's lawyers would appeal such a bar.
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