House to Vote Wednesday to Send Impeachment Articles to Senate
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We ran the numbers: There are 2441 news articles covering this topic. 39% (957) are left leaning, 42% (1032) center, 19% (452) right leaning.
On Wednesday, the House will vote to send two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate. While left-leaning articles report on Chief Justice John Roberts’ role in the impeachment trial, right-leaning articles criticize House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s actions in the impeachment process.
The New York Times published a left-leaning article highlighting that Roberts’ role at the impeachment trial will be full of peril for his reputation, despite the fact that his responsibilities will turn out to be largely ceremonial. According to Frank O. Bowman, a law professor at the University of Missouri, any impeachment trial puts a chief justice into unfamiliar and unwelcome terrain, but Roberts’ role will be particularly difficult, because of his concern that any perception of partiality to either side could damage the institutional legitimacy of the court.
A centrist article by NPR reports that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated the impeachment trial will probably begin next Tuesday, and Pelosi revealed the House will name impeachment managers to lead the prosecution on Wednesday but didn’t say who they would be. Pelosi criticized McConnell’s decision to start the Senate trial without guaranteeing it will hear from additional witnesses, while McConnell indicated there was little sentiment in his party to move to dismiss the articles of impeachment before hearing opening arguments from both sides.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that in an interview on “The Ingraham Angle” with Laura Ingraham, Representative Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. stated that Pelosi is “coming out of the gate with a miscalculation with regard to these articles of impeachment.” Ingraham also noted that Pelosi is helping Biden and hurting those who are going to have to stay in Washington during the Senate trial, putting “her finger on the scale” against Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.