Schumer convenes surprise Senate conviction vote on Christmas Day, while all Republican Senators are at home with their families? Would it play out like this:
All in favor say "aye." "AYE!" All opposed? >silence< "The President is hereby convicted and removed from office." Mueller's FBI starts boxing up files and expelling all White House staff. Pence is forced to recuse himself from assuming the Presidency. Nancy Pelosi is inaugurated as the true 45th president. Trump deleted from history.
Schumer convenes surprise Senate conviction vote on Christmas Day, while all Republican Senators are at home with their families? Would it play out like this:
All in favor say "aye." "AYE!" All opposed? >silence< "The President is hereby convicted and removed from office." Mueller's FBI starts boxing up files and expelling all White House staff. Pence is forced to recuse himself from assuming the Presidency. Nancy Pelosi is inaugurated as the true 45th president. Trump deleted from history.
Ummmm
Shummer doesn't run the Senate
OK--> Secret meeting for new rules--> Now Schumer runs the Senate. Isn't that how this works? Source: Schiff
I don’t know the nuts and bolts of how plausible that is, but I think we both get the point.
Maybe the Senate convenes a “jury” of Senators so that not everyone needs to attend? What if half of the GOP jurors are Romney-types?
It's good to be aware of all possibilities to prepare to counter.
I should think the counter move would be militia