Senate convenes at noon for impeachment managers to lay out argument to convict Donald Trump of ‘incitement of insurrection’
- Senate votes 56 to 44 to proceed with Trump’s second trial
- Video: Democrats play montage of Capitol footage at trial
- Trump ‘quietly watching’ impeachment on TV in Florida
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Amanda Holpuch in New York reports for us today on the Biden administration’s early moves over immigration:
Biden has taken a slew of actions to roll back or review Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, but activists say Biden must do more to prove his commitment to meaningful change.
Related: Biden takes action on anti-immigrant policies but Trump’s influence hovers
Whether to find Donald Trump guilty or not has a political dimension for Senate Republicans, who can see that there is still a substantial base to their party loyal to the former president – and even state legislators still clinging to the conspiracy theories that have been spread about the Capitol insurrection.
Associated Press report that a Republican legislative leader in Michigan apologized yesterday after falsely claiming supporters of president Donald Trump were not involved in the deadly attack at the US Capitol, having called it a “hoax”, even as the Senate was watching a video of the events as part of Trump’s trial.
