Senators Collins and Kaine Attempting to Bar Trump from the Ballot with a Censure Resolution as a Back Up to a Possible DOA Impeachment Trial Conviction After GOP Signals Potential Acquittal

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A censure resolution, unlike impeachment, would require only 60 votes to pass the Senate, and it would amount to a historic rebuke of Trump. The Senate has censured only one president previously — Andrew Jackson — a decision it reversed three years later.

“I have been talking with a handful of my colleagues, a handful, not 40,” Kaine said. “I think the Paul motion yesterday was completely clarifying that we’re not going to get near 67 votes. So I think there’s maybe a little more interest in could this be an alternative.”

“To do a trial knowing you’ll get 55 votes at the max seems to me to be not the right prioritization of our time right now,” Kaine added.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is vowing to move forward with the trial, wanting to put Republicans on the record about Trump’s rhetoric.

“I would simply say to all of my colleagues: Make no mistake, there will be a trial, and the evidence against the former president will be presented, in living color, for the nation and every one of us to see,” Schumer said.

Democrats will discuss censure resolution if the Senate acquits Trump

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he agreed “completely” with Schumer.