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US Senate clears path for Trump impeachment trial


Nearly all Senate Republicans have voted in favour of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, in a show of party unity that some cited as a clear sign the former US president will not be convicted of inciting insurrection at the Capitol.
Republican Senator Rand Paul tabled a motion on Tuesday objecting to the trial on the grounds that the constitution of the United States does not provide for the impeachment of former presidents. Trump left office last Wednesday.
The Democratic-led Senate blocked the motion in a 55-45 vote. Only five Republican legislators joined Democrats to reject the move, far short of the 17 Republicans who would need to vote to convict Trump on an impeachment charge that he incited the deadly siege on the Capitol on January 6. ....

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