US politics live updates: House Democrats set to vote to impeach Donald Trump for historic second time

A vote to impeach President Donald Trump is expected mid-afternoon in Washington DC. So here’s an overview in three posts

From the Associated Press: 

President Donald Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time with the House planning the unprecedented vote one week after he encouraged a mob of loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and the US Capitol became the target of a deadly siege.

While the first impeachment of Mr Trump last year brought no Republican votes in the House, a small but significant number of politicians are breaking with the party to join the Democrats.

They are unwilling to put American decency and democracy at further risk, even with days remaining in the president’s term. 

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