When I was a kid, I thought we’d be a lot further along, technologically, by now. Though maybe we’re getting close to flying cars. And while the world of 2001: A Space Odyssey is decades late, it looks like it’s finally approaching as well.
It passed on pretty much a party-line vote. Note that, unlike some reports, this was not a vote to impeach. It was simply a vote to make the kangaroo court slightly less opaque.
Yes, the Senate has the power to have a trial and remove, but it does not have a duty to do so, any more than it has one to consider a Supreme Court nomination.