{"id":762953,"date":"2019-12-11T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/11\/us-senate-questions-next-move-as-democrats-move-closer-to-trump-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:32:27","slug":"us-senate-questions-next-move-as-democrats-move-closer-to-trump-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/11\/us-senate-questions-next-move-as-democrats-move-closer-to-trump-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate questions next move as Democrats move closer to Trump impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Washington – As the U.S. House of Representatives moves closer to impeaching President Donald Trump, larger questions loom in the Senate, where Trump’s Republican allies may not give him the extended trial he would like.<\/p>\n

Democrats who control the House unveiled formal charges on Tuesday that accuse Trump of abusing his power by trying to force Ukraine to investigate a political rival and obstructing Congress when lawmakers tried to look into the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The House Judiciary Committee is due to begin considering those charges at 7 p.m. on Wednesday (0000 GMT) and is expected to approve them on Thursday. A vote by the full chamber next week is likely to make Trump the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House.<\/p>\n

Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Democrats had to take action because Trump had endangered the U.S. Constitution, jeopardized national security and undermined the integrity of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

The impeachment articles do not draw on other contentious aspects of the Republican president’s tenure, such as his efforts to impede former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Democratic lawmakers who represent more conservative districts have argued that the focus should stay on Ukraine.<\/p>\n