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With Republicans holding a 53-47 majority in the Senate and showing no real signs of turning against Donald Trump in the impeachment inquiry currently underway against Trump in the House of Representatives, the possibility that the Senate would vote to remove Trump if he is impeached by the House appears remote, or even impossible, as USA Today columnist Jenny Beth Martin wrote earlier this week.
While the House needs only a majority vote to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate would need to hold a trial and then vote to “convict” Trump by a two-thirds majority in order to remove Trump from office, according to the process outlined in the United States Constitution. That means 20 Republicans would need to turn against Trump and vote with all 47 Democrats in the Senate to win a conviction against Trump — a prospect that seems highly unlikely.
Or does it?