U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said he believes “we need to wait and hear the evidence” before voting whether to convict President Donald Trump for inciting a violent mob during last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
His comment comes one day after the U.S. House, with the support from 10 Republicans, voted to impeach Trump a second time in less than one year on charges of “incitement and insurrection.”
Shelby, who is Alabama’s senior member of Congress, will oversee his third impeachment trial of a president during his lengthy Senate career. The impeachment trial, however, will not happen until after next week’s inauguration after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he was not going to start a trial ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony.
Shelby voted in early February to acquit Trump of charges that he abused power and obstructed Congress related to allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Only Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah voted to convict Trump, making him the first senator in history to vote to have a president from within his own political party removed from office.
In 1998, Shelby was one of five Republicans to vote against a perjury count during the impeachment trial against President Bill Clinton, while voting in support of a count of obstruction. Clinton, who was impeached in the House, was acquitted in the Senate.
Shelby was the only Republican member of the Alabama congressional delegation to vote in support of the Electoral College. Six Republicans from Alabama in the U.S. House voted to support challenges to electoral votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Shelby’s decision came in mid-December after the Electoral College met to confirm the November 3 presidential election win for Biden.
“The Electoral College met earlier this week, which is our constitutional process for determining the result of the presidential election,” Shelby said in a statement last month. “The electors voted 306 for Joe Biden and 232 for Donald Trump, thereby making Joe Biden the official President-elect. While I wish it would have yielded a different outcome, it’s time to move on.”
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