The historic process of prosecuting and defending Trump\u2019s actions nine months before voters choose the next president will impact every branch of government and American politics for years to come.<\/p>\n
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The articles alleging abuse of power were physically delivered to the Senate on Wednesday evening in a rare ceremonial procession led by\u00a0Cheryl Johnson<\/strong>, the House clerk, and\u00a0Paul Irving<\/strong>, the House sergeant-at-arms, shortly after the House voted to advance them nearly along party lines. The only Democrat to vote against the transmission was Rep.\u00a0Collin Peterson\u00a0<\/strong>(D-Minn.) (The Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0<\/strong>(R-Ky.) and Senate GOP leaders are scheduled to officially accept the articles today at noon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The processional came hours after Pelosi announced the group of managers, headlined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman\u00a0Adam Schiff\u00a0<\/strong>(D-Calif.), whom she named lead manager, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman\u00a0Jerrold Nadler\u00a0<\/strong>(D-N.Y.). Both committee chairmen played integral roles in the impeachment process since it was launched in late September (The Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The historic process of prosecuting and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21145,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions\/21145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}