After that, the Home managers will march from their chamber throughout the Capitol, by the elaborately painted Rotunda below the dome, to the Senat
After that, the Home managers will march from their chamber throughout the Capitol, by the elaborately painted Rotunda below the dome, to the Senate chamber, to ship a certain copy of the impeachment articles to senators assembled for the event.
As soon as the managers arrive, the Senate sergeant-at-arms will cry out “Hear ye! Hear ye!” and provides senators a warning to remain quiet:
All individuals are commanded to maintain silence, on ache of imprisonment, whereas the Home of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the USA articles of impeachment towards Donald John Trump, president of the USA.
One of many managers will then learn aloud and in full the Home’s two articles from the effectively of the Senate, earlier than the entire workforce leaves.
Swearing of oaths: The chief justice arrives on the scene.
Subsequent, senators will escort Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. into the Senate chamber. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the president professional tem of the Senate — the longest-serving Republican — will administer an oath to Chief Justice Roberts, who will swear to manage “neutral justice.” Then Chief Justice Roberts will ask senators to lift their proper arms and conform to the identical oath:
I solemnly swear that in all issues appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the USA, now pending, I’ll do neutral justice in keeping with the Structure and legal guidelines: So assist me God.
Every senator then should step up, one after the other, to signal his or her title in a e book testifying to the oath.
After that, the Structure dictates little about how the continuing ought to run. It does specify that in presidential impeachments, the chief justice presides for the rest of the trial.
Senate guidelines in power for 3 many years dictate that the chamber meets for an impeachment trial day-after-day at 1 p.m., Monday by Saturday, till senators attain a verdict or dismiss the costs.