Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during a news conference with other Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., listens at left. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via AP)

The office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement rejecting Democrat calls to reconvene the Senate in an emergency session to impeach President Trump before January 20.

McConnell’s office sent a memo to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) asserting that Republicans won’t agree to a Friday emergency session to enable House Democrats to present an article of impeachment to the Senate while Trump is still in office.

“Even if we started a trial yesterday, there’s not enough time to remove him from office,” an official with McConnell’s office said in the statement.

“It would require the consent of all 100 senators to conduct any business of any kind during the scheduled pro forma sessions prior to January 19,” the memo said.

“The Senate trial would therefore begin after President Trump’s term has expired — either one hour after its expiration on Jan. 20 or twenty-five hours after its expiration on Jan. 21,” it stated.

The announcement effectively derails Democrat hopes of successfully impeaching Donald Trump, according to constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

“There won’t be a trial,” Dershowitz said Saturday. “The Senate will never have a trial because the earliest you could have a trial take place would be at 1 o’clock in the afternoon on January 20th, which is when Donald Trump becomes a private citizen.”

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