McConnell rejects emergency session for early impeachment trial

Published January 13, 2021 6:52pm ET



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not agree to an emergency session to expedite a Senate impeachment trial for President Trump, all but ensuring that it wouldn’t take place before Inauguration Day.

With a House vote on impeachment imminent, an aide confirmed that McConnell’s office called Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s team on Wednesday to say the Kentucky Republican refuses to act on legislation passed in 2004 that allows the leaders of both parties to reconvene the Senate jointly at any time.

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