Impeachment explainer: US President Donald Trump is one step closer to facing a Senate trial for impeachment. What happens now?
US President Donald Trump is one step closer to facing a Senate trial for impeachment, after the House of Representatives' impeachment managers delivered the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
Tomorrow, the Senate is expected to formally receive the articles, and the judge presiding over the trial - as well as the 100 senators who will act as jurors - are expected to be sworn in.It's only the third time in history that an American president has faced such proceedings.
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