Dissension among GOP senators could frustrate Mitch McConnell’s hopes of quickly dispensing with possible articles of impeachment
WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested that a vote by the Democratic-controlled House to impeach President Trump could be quickly dispensed with in his chamber. One way to do that: The Republican-controlled Senate could vote on a motion to dismiss the charges without a trial.
But despite the GOP’s 53-seat Senate majority, passage of such a motion—which would require at least 50 votes, plus the vice president, if needed—isn’t a certainty, since more than a dozen Senate Republicans have been at least...
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