WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day, just as Democrat Joe Biden takes the oath of office in an ever-more-extraordinary end to the defeated president's tenure in the White House.The timing is not set and depends heavily on when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decides to transmit the article of impeachment to the Senate.
Democrats hoping to avoid interrupting Biden's inauguration have suggested holding back until the new president has a chance to get his administration going.What is clear is that the trial ahead will be unlike any other in the nation's history, the first for a president no longer in office.