It was the opening salvo in what promises to be a brutal legislative fight with conservatives over the high bench’s political balance.
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This was due to warning by critics that peace was anything but assured after two decades of fighting.
Seven fellow Republicans, including former Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, voted to convict Trump of the single charge of incitement of insurrection.
Few presidents, if any, have taken power in circumstances such as these: a still-raging pandemic claiming lives and shredding livelihoods, a continuing threat of armed insurrection and a defiant former president who faces a US Senate trial charged with encouraging an attack on his country’s capital.
“There is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week,” McConnell said in a statement shared on Twitter.
She is the first cabinet member to quit over the incident, which drew outrage from within the country and around the world.
“The United States Senate will not be intimidated, we will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats,” McConnell said from the Senate floor.
The action came just hours before a government shutdown and days after the President opposed the bill over “wasteful and unnecessary items”.
Mueller served under both Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic President, Barack Obama.
US senators are set to cast a procedural vote on Friday that could advance the life-long appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, accused of sexual misconduct to the country’s highest court.