Supply of the articles set the stage for the Senate to begin the trial.

The supply of the articles of impeachment on Wednesday night by the Home managers to the Senate set the stage for the formal opening on Thursday of the third impeachment trial within the nation’s historical past.

Even because the articles had been delivered, the Home launched a second set of paperwork associated to the impeachment inquiry from Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s private lawyer. The New York Instances is inspecting the paperwork. Verify nytimes.com for information about what they reveal.

On Thursday, Home managers will formally current the articles in a ceremony within the Senate chamber, which will probably be adopted by the swearing-in of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. because the presiding officer of the trial, and the next swearing-in of all 100 senators. Correspondents for The Instances will observe all the developments on Capitol Hill as they occur. Stick with us.

Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, known as on the 4 senators searching for the Democratic nomination for president to recuse themselves from the trial due to “unparalleled political curiosity” in eradicating President Trump from workplace.

The candidates, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, are all anticipated to depart the marketing campaign path and take an oath to listen to the case in opposition to Mr. Trump.

“To take part on this trial could be a failure of the oath they took to be an ‘neutral justice based on the Structure and legal guidelines,’” Ms. Blackburn mentioned in a press release. “Their presidential ambitions prohibit their skill to view this trial via an goal lens.”

Greater than two dozen Democrats, however solely two Republicans — Senator Mitch McConnell, the bulk chief, and Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota — had been within the Senate chamber, awaiting the arrival of the managers and the articles. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and the Senate president professional tempore, was presiding.

The managers walked in at 5:34 p.m., with Consultant Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, within the lead, adopted by Consultant Adam B. Schiff and others. They stood, palms clasped, within the again nook of the chamber.

“Mr. President, a message from the Home of Representatives,” the Home clerk declared, earlier than asserting the vote adopting the articles and appointing the managers. A Senate official marched towards Mr. Grassley to formally ship the articles, and Mr. McConnell rose to announce a sequence of resolutions — agreed to by the consent of each events — that may govern the opening days of the trial, which can start in earnest on Tuesday.

The managers arrived on the ornate entrance to the Senate, which is flanked on both aspect by work of senators: William B. Allison, who represented Iowa from 1873 to 1908, and Joseph T. Robinson, who represented Arkansas from 1913 to 1937.

After marching solemnly from the opposite aspect of the Capitol, the managers stopped briefly earlier than coming into the Senate chamber.

As soon as the bulk chief, Senator Mitch McConnell, completed his remarks, the managers shortly left.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California formally signed the articles of impeachment in an “engrossment ceremony,” earlier than the seven lawmakers named as impeachment managers walked them throughout the Capitol to the Senate.

Beneath a portrait of George Washington within the stately Rayburn Room within the Capitol, Ms. Pelosi signed the paperwork. Cheryl L. Johnson, the Home clerk, licensed the paperwork, recognized formally as an engrossed decision.

Ms. Pelosi was joined by the committee leaders who oversaw the impeachment inquiry and the impeachment managers as, within the speaker’s phrases, they “ready to cross a vital threshold in American historical past.”