Live updates: Lawmakers clash over path forward after Trump impeachment

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  • The House of Representatives voted Wednesday night to approve two articles of impeachment against President Trump, who is just the third president in history to be impeached.
  • In a speech Thursday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denounced the “purely partisan impeachment” that he said could “unsettle the foundations of our republic.”
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she won’t name send the articles to the Senate until the upper chamber finalizes its plans for a trial.
  • Download the free CBS News app to stream live impeachment coverage.

Washington — House and Senate leaders traded heated accusations the day after the vote to impeach President Trump, setting the stage for a Senate impeachment trial in the new year.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats won’t name impeachment managers or transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate until the upper chamber finalizes the procedures for the trial. 

“When we see the process that’s set forth in the Senate, then we’ll know the number of managers we’ll have to move forward, and who we would choose,” the California Democrat said. The House is set to adjourn for the rest of the year after votes on Thursday.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized House Democrats for the decision to impeach the president, saying a “slapdash” process had resulted in the “first full partisan impeachment” since Reconstruction.

“The House’s conduct risks deeply damaging the institutions of American government,” McConnell said, calling impeachment “the predetermined end of a partisan crusade that began before President Trump was even sworn in.”

McConnell said Pelosi’s decision to withhold the articles from the Senate shows Democrats “may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy echoed those comments: “She’s admitting defeat by not sending them. By refusing to send impeachment over, she knows its outcome is not good.”

The House voted to impeach Mr. Trump on two counts of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in votes Wednesday night, making him just the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.

Lawmakers voted nearly along party lines to approve the articles after lengthy and contentious debate on the House floor that stretched into the night. Just two Democratic members joined all Republicans in voting against the first article, with another Democrat joining the two dissenters on the second. One Democrat voted present on both counts.

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