Trump Impeachment Vote to Open Intense Public Phase of Inquiry
- Democratic resolution lays out rules, procedures for probe
- Republicans say the process will lead to ‘preordained result’
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House Democrats hold a historic vote on Thursday to kick off the public phase of an inquiry of President Donald Trump that moves significantly closer to a vote to impeach him.
The vote, which is expected to break down mostly along party lines, doesn’t make his conviction and removal from office by the Senate any more likely. But the rare step to consider removing a president from office makes a process that has been bitter and partisan even more intense and fraught for all sides.